Tag #155857 - Interview #78262 (sophia vollerner)

Before the [Russian] Revolution of 1917 9 Jews weren't allowed to live in Kiev due to residential restrictions [the Jewish Pale of Settlement] 10. The only exception was made for craftsmen, merchants of Guild I & II, doctors and their families, who were allowed to settle down in Podol 11, in the old central neighborhood of Kiev. When my father studied in dentistry school my grandparents sold their house in Zhytomyr and moved to Kiev to be near their children who studied and lived in Kiev. They settled down in Zhylanska Street in the center of the town. They rented an apartment. My grandfather continued his work as a tradesman and my grandmother was a housewife.