The article deals with the features of the social and political position of the Jewish national minority in the events of the Ukrainian Revolution on South of Ukraine. The author described the role of the Jewish political parties after the February Revolution of 1917 and their relationship to the Provisional Government and to the Central Rada. The article also shows activities of the Jewish parties and public association in the processes of the Ukrainian Revolution and considers the main directions of establishing favorable conditions for creating Ukrainian-Jewish relations. From the ancient times the Ukrainian population considered by the polyethnic composition. Along with the Ukrainians, there were representatives of a number of other ethnic communities who differed in origin, language, culture, traditions, customs, religious affiliation, level of political development, degree of ethnic self-organization, etc. Their part in the population of Ukraine, as well as their absolute number, has never been stable. In 1917 began the process of destruction of the Russian Empire that also helped to crystallize the Ukrainian state. The formation of Southern Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian territory had its political, economic, socio-cultural and ethnic characteristics. In the beginning of the XX century, and for the next decades the problem of national minorities, relations between them and indigenous peoples the question of their status were one of the most important and complex problems of arranging Ukrainian life, revealing of Ukrainian statehood, development of culture in Ukraine. The national diversity of the Ukrainian population is one of the substantial features of its history, and by its roots, this origins date back to ancient times.

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