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[quote=Anonymous]Sagan

Sagan, Slavic meaning Wise one
	•	Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polishsagan ‘kettle’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of pots and pans, or a nickname from the same word in a less clear application.
	•	Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Sagan, a place in Lower Silesia.
	•	French (southeastern) : nickname for a loud or noisy man, from a dialect word meaning ‘noisy’.
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As Jewish parents, you waited eight days after birth, to announce the name of Sagan in accordance with the common Jewish tradition for parents to wait until the bris (brit milah, the &quot;covenant of circumcision”) to publicly share the name of your newborn baby boy. That's right: for over a week, you kept the name a secret from friends and family and just about everyone who popped in to see the new addition to your family.

You have a wicked sense of humor and wanted to acknowledge your son’s loud piercing screams during the infant “covenant” requirement. The loud crying was despite having a highly rated surgeon perform the operation as painlessly as possible. The name Sagan perfectly captures your hopes for Sagan to defy stereotypes of becoming a nice, quiet nerdy Jewish boy as you secretly hope for him to become a loud “hold no prisoners” advocate for his own and other peoples’ needs. To you, Sagan means noisy wise one.

Your Ashkenazi Jewish family goes back over a thousand years in Ukraine which is also home to many Mountain Jews, Bukharan Jews, Crimean Karaites, Krymchak Jews, and Georgian Jews. The Ukrainian Jewish community represents the third largest in Europe and the fifth largest in the world. Your ancestors helped to develop many distinctive and modern Jewish cultural and theological traditions such as Hasidism.

While at times it flourished, at other times the Jewish community in Ukraine faced persecution and antisemitic discrimination. In the Ukrainian People's Republic, Yiddish was a state language along with Ukrainian and Russian. The Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency between 1917 and 1920. Before World War II, a little under one-third of Ukraine's urban population consisted of Jews who were the largest national minority in Ukraine.

During the Russian Revolution and Civil War in the early twentieth century, more than 35,000 and 50,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered.  The actions of the Soviet government by 1927 led to a growing antisemitism in the area. Pogroms were common: a pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The Slavic term originally described 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews that occurred in the Russian Empire.

Around 1.5 million Jews in Ukraine were killed during the Holocaust, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. About 6 million Jews overall were killed so one quarter came from the Ukraine. Ukraine had been home to the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war, which was largely wiped out by mobile killing units called Einsatzgruppen and their collaborators. They shot Jews near their homes rather than send them to concentration camps.

Your grandparents’ meeting and long happy marriage was an exceptional happy ending during the brutal tragedy of the Holocaust in Ukraine.  Your grandfather was a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army who had escaped a German prison camp. Your grandmother’s family saved his life in German-occupied Ukraine during World War II by hiding his identity as a Jewish soldier in the Soviet army. They hid their own identity as Jews by assuming the identity of Greek Orthodox Catholics with crucifixes and Coptic crosses on every wall and statues of Mother Mary in the front garden.

A few years after the grim horrors of the war had unfolded, they met by accident and bonded over shared traumatic sorrow and their hope for a better future. Like many other Jewish families, your grandparents emigrated to the US after the War.
 
Your synagogue is keeping watch on Ukraine’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, as 100,000 Russian forces mass on the border and U.S. President Joe Biden predicts an imminent invasion. Your Israeli-born rabbi, himself a refugee displaced by Russian illegal annexation of Crimea  is ready to coordinate and support a fresh wave of refugees should the Kremlin order a fresh offensive. Your synagogue is working in collaboration with the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to help the Jewish community in the Ukraine.

Your grandmother’s family retained their assumed Greek Catholic identity as they remained traumatized by the persecution of Jews in their homeland. Ironically, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day,  your grandmother’s family was recently recognized as one of the 30,000  &quot;Righteous Among the Nations,&quot; an honor awarded by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, for non-Jews who risked their lives to aid Jews during the great genocide. In this case, The Lord did literally “help those who helped themselves”!

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