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Nadia Lipes

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Nadia Ihorivna Lipes
Native name
Надія Ігорівна Ліпес
Born (1976-12-24) 24 December 1976 (age 49)
Balakliia, USSR
LanguageHebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish and English
CitizenshipIsrael, Ukraine
Alma materInternational Solomon University
Genregenealogy, history
Website
lipesdatabase.com

Nadia (Sarah-Beila) Ihorivna Lipes (Ukrainian: Надія Ігорівна Ліпес, Russian: Надежда Игоревна Липес; born 24 December 1976, Balakliia, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian writer, historian, licensed tour guide, public figure. She is considered one of the leading genealogists in the post-Soviet states.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Born into a Jewish family, in 1997 she immigrated to Israel. She attended the International Solomon University, where she studied Judaics and Sociology. In 2004, she returned to Kyiv and worked as a realtor before the 2008 financial crisis. That year, she founded courses for Jewish guides in Ukraine, and since 2009 has been organizing tourist trips. Concurrently she has been working with archival documents, and searching and restoring genealogical data.[4] She gives lectures in Ukraine and in many other countries of the world, in particular in the United States, Israel, Germany.[5] She speaks Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish and English.[citation needed]

Activities

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Since 2007 she has been engaged in the protection and documentation of old Jewish cemeteries, having taken numerous photographs of Jewish headstones of historical, cultural and artistic value. She has written numerous studies of archival documents. In 2013, in the State Archives of the Kyiv region [uk], she discovered lists of Jews in Justingrad who were victims of pogroms, her ancestors being among the victims.

Lipes is also the author of numerous works on the history of Jews in the Russian Empire and Ukraine and studies on Jewish pogroms during the revolution and the Civil War in Ukraine [he].[6] She is the founder of a memorial site with a list of victims of pogroms, which she finances at her own expense.[7] She has restored or supplemented the family trees of celebrities such as Dustin Hoffman, Isaac Babel, Leonid Utyosov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Mishka Yaponchik,[8] David Margolin [uk], David Hofstein, Simcha Lieberman [mk], Menachem Mendel Schneerson[9] and other famous personalities. She has indexed more than a million archival records from the times of the Russian Empire related to Jewish genealogy from the archives of Ukraine for her websites.[10]

In September 2017, she participated in the international program conference 'Riga Forum – Holocaust and Contemporary Radicalism' in Riga with more than 100 participants from 17 countries.[11][12] From July to August 2019, she spoke at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Cleveland.[13][14] In the summer of 2020, she participated in the opening of a memorial monument to those who died in Tetiiv.[15][16][clarification needed]

Personal life

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From 2004 to 2005 Lipes was married to Ihor Yevhenovych Branovytskyi [uk] and had recently divorced her third husband Alexey (Elisha). Her son Nikita has served in Israel Defense Forces, doing military service as a cook at a training center in Beer Sheba.

Publications

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  • Липес Н. И. А вы по национальности? Astroprint, 2017. ISBN 978-966-927-307-9.[17]
  • Липес Н. И. Советские документы. Что, где, зачем. Astroprint, 2018. ISBN 978-966-927-348-2.[18]
  • Липес Н. И. Досоветские документы. Что, где, зачем, 1786—1917. Astroprint, 2019. ISBN 978-966-927-482-3.[19]
  • Липес Н. И. Погромы: неудобная правда, 1917-1921. Астропринт, 2021. ISBN 978-966-927-806-7.[20]
  • Липес Н. И. «Грабармия» Деникина в записках врача Лазаря Билинкиса. Лехаим № 11 (355), 28 октября 2021.[21]
  • Lipes N. I. Kiev Archives: Documentation of World War I Jewish Refugees. Avotaynu Volume XXX, Number 2, Summer 2014.
  • Lipes N. I. Russian Empire Army Census of 1875 For the Territory of Ukraine. Avotaynu Volume XXX, Number 3, Fall 2014.
  • Lipes N. I. Jewish Berdichev as Seen Through Two Archival Collections. Avotaynu Volume XXX, Number 4, Winter 2014.
  • Lipes N. I. Archival Records from the Russian Courts, Police, Notaries and Other State Agencies. Avotaynu Volume XXXI, Number 1, Spring 2015.
  • Lipes N. I. Y-DNA Helps Trace a Litvak's Roots Back to Eretz Yisrael Two Thousand Years Ago. Avotaynu Volume XXXI, Number 2, Summer 2015.
  • Lipes N. I. Hidden Jewish History: The Expulsion of Jews from Kiev in 1827 and the Story of the Rabbis. Avotaynu Volume XXXI, Number 3, Fall 2015.
  • Lipes N. I. Archival Records of Jewish Refugees to the USSR (1939—1940). Avotaynu Volume XXXI, Number 4, Winter 2015.
  • Lipes N. I. Hard-to-Find Family History: A Story About Some «Illegitimate» Jewish Children. Avotaynu Volume XXXII, Number 1, Spring 2016.
  • Lipes N. I. What May be Learned from the Personal Files of Jewish Students in the Russian Empire. Avotaynu Volume XXXII, Number 2, Summer 2016.
  • Lipes N. I. Your Connection to Rabbi Levi Yitzhak from Berdichev. Avotaynu Volume XXXII, Number 4, Winter 2016.
  • Lipes N. I. Developing an Index of Jewish Records for Old Kiev Guberniya. Avotaynu Volume XXXIII, Number 2, Summer 2017.
  • Lipes N. I. A Journey to One’s Roots. Avotaynu Volume XXXIII, Number 4, Winter 2017.
  • Липес Н. И. Погромы: неудобная правда. 1917–1921 : документальная повесть — Одесса : Астропринт, 2021. — 348 с. — (Серия «Генеалогия для чайников»). ISBN 978-966-927-806-7[22]
  • Липес Н. И. Нетипичный Холокост : документальная повесть часть 1 : Немецкая зона оккупации — Одесса : Астропринт, 2025. — 300 с. — (Серия «Генеалогия для чайников»). ISBN 978-617-8515-09-6

References

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  1. ↑ "Сара Надя Липес о еврейской генеалогии". Девятый канал (in Russian). 5 March 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. ↑ "Professional Researchers". www.jewishgen.org.
  3. ↑ "Archives". kehilalinks.jewishgen.org.
  4. ↑ "Криптоевреи и как оно бывало на самом деле. Генеалог Надя Липес о страшной истории Тетиева". NEWSru.co.il.
  5. ↑ "Meetings – Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami". sites.google.com.
  6. ↑ "Between the "Whites" and the "Reds": Who carried out pogroms against the Jews during the Civil War?". UJE – Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. 26 November 2018.
  7. ↑ "Надя (Сара-Бейла) Липес: Исследователь Еврейской Генеалогии и Историк | Lipes Genealogy Database". 5 February 2018.
  8. ↑ "Евреи и Котовский". 14 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Шнеерсоны и что мы учим на их примере". 6 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Надя Липес выложила онлайн базу данных евреев Российской империи". news.jeps.ru.
  11. ↑ "Рижский Форум 2017 — Shamir". shamir.lv (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 September 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  12. ↑ "RIGA FORUM 2017 DIGEST" (PDF). civic-nation.org. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Nu? What's New? Vol. 20 No. 14". www.avotaynu.com.
  14. ↑ "Program and Schedule". s4.goeshow.com.
  15. ↑ "Депутаты против памяти жертв погромов". Лехаим. 4 August 2020.
  16. ↑ "В Тетиеве открыли памятник жертвам еврейских погромов 1919–1920 годов". www.kngu.org.
  17. ↑ "Электронный каталог – Липес, Надежда Игоревна – А вы по национальности?..- ABSOPAC Unicode". catalog.odnb.odessa.ua. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Электронный каталог – Липес, Надежда Игоревна – Советские документы. Что, где, зачем- ABSOPAC Unicode". catalog.odnb.odessa.ua. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  19. ↑ "Электронный каталог – Липес, Надежда Игоревна – Досоветские документы. Что, где, зачем, 1786-1917- ABSOPAC Unicode". catalog.odnb.odessa.ua. Archived from the original on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  20. ↑ "Погромы: неудобная Правда 1917–1921" [Pogroms: The Inconvenient Truth of 1917–1921] (PDF) (in Russian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2021.
  21. ↑ "Лехаим № 11 (355) — Лехаим". lechaim.ru. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  22. ↑ Alexandr, Garbuzov. "Погромы: неудобная правда. 1917–1921: документальная повесть. Надя Липес". www.astroprint.ua (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
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