Would Jewish Ukranians historically have worn vyshyvankas and integrated Slavic embroidary into their lives?

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Not at all. The picture below is pretty much what they would wear in 1800s. And prior to 1800s there wasn't much cultural mixing either. Historically, Jews in Ukraine and Russia lived in their own towns or city sections. In Russian Empire (that included Ukraine too) the government decreed which areas Jews could live in and in what kinds of settlements. Besides that, there was a substantial amount of violent antisemitism which limited cultural exchange. Jews of Eastern Europe became assimilated only in the 20th century, after the Bolshevik revolution, and by then the vyshivankas were rarely worn by anybody. Vyshivanka resurgence followed Ukraine's independence from Russia in 1990s.

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