ZVENIGORODKA, city in S. Kiev district, Ukraine. In 1787 the
Jewish community of Zvenigorodka numbered 387. In 1897 there
were 6,389 Jews (32% of the total population) and in 1926 the
number of Jews in Zvenigorodka amounted to 6,584 (36.5% of the
total population). Most of the Jews were murdered when the
Germans occupied Zvenigorodka in World War II. A 1959 census
showed approximately 700 Jews in the town. There was no
organized Jewish life. In 1965 private religious services were
dispersed by the militia. Most Jews left in the mass exodus of
the 1990s,   I. Erenburg, Merder fun Felker (1945), 138–40.