Abstract This text examines Uman in contemporary Ukraine as a significant Jewish pilgrimage destination in Europe, with a particular focus on the period of 2019–2024. Through the lens of integrated threat theory of prejudice, the author analyzes popular perceptions of danger among pilgrims and local residents. Utilizing qualitative content analysis of posts and comments in Facebook groups, as well as field observations during that period, the research highlights the gendered aspects of these perceptions. Findings reveal several categories related to pilgrimage and danger: pilgrims as appropriators, pilgrims as a threat to local life, the spiritual danger of pilgrimage cancellation, and the wartime insecurities of pilgrimage. Within these dynamics, women emerge both as those perceived to be at risk—especially in discourses of local harassment and vulnerability—and as those shaping debates on safety online. The idea of space holiness is articulated in a limited domain belonging to discourses of pilgrims.
Alla Marchenko (Fri,) studied this question.