Socialist Federation and the Socialist Party of America, the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward newspaper in New York, journalist, political and economic scientist, the statesman of the Soviet Union. Sholem Aleichem, pen name of Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (1859–1916), leading Yiddish author and playwright, lived here doing research for his novels in the 1880s Boris Sidis (1867–1923), Ukrainian American psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education Valeriy Skvortsov (1945–) Soviet high jumper; European champion Stempenyu, stage name of Iosef Druker (1822–79), a klezmer violin virtuoso and bandleader Dmytro Tymchuk (1972–2019) Ukrainian Army Reserve colonel, "informatsiinyi sprotyv" group coordinator Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Levi Yosef Yitzhak of Berdichev; 1740–1809), Torah commentator, chassidic rabbi, leader, religious songwriter, and leader of the Berditchev Hasidic dynasty. Some sources erroneously claim that the pianist Vladimir Horowitz was born in Berdychiv. Horowitz's birth certificate unequivocally gives Kyiv as his birthplace. Gallery Berdychiv on stage See: Abraham Ellstein See also History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union Berdichev machine-building plant References Further reading From Berdichev to Jerusalem by Miriam Sperber, 1980 The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman by John Garrand, 1996 External links "My Berdychiv" – history, present, people (in Ukrainian language) Jewish History of Berdichev, Part 1 and Part 2 at Jewishgen.org Berdichev at Simon Wiesenthal Center Berdychiv lands from the earliest times to the beginning of the 20th century (1999, in Ukrainian language: Бердичівська земля з найдавнішших часів до початку ХХ ст.) PBS Independent Lens: "Berdichev" The murder of the Jews of Berdychiv during World War II, at Yad Vashem website Cities in Zhytomyr Oblast Cities of regional significance in Ukraine Berdychiv Raion Berdichevsky Uyezd Kiev Voivodeship Populated places established in the 1430s Jewish Ukrainian history Shtetls Holocaust locations in Ukraine Mass murder in 1941