"In many cases, Jewish experts held the highest positions in the ZUNR," says Ukrainian historian Oleh Pavlyshyn

Why are we taught about Ukrainian-Jewish relations? On today's show, the Western Ukrainian National Republic (ZUNR), Ukrainian-Jewish relations during its existence, and Ruben Fahn's book. Our guest today is the historian Oleh Pavlyshyn, who is...

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A thousand years of history: what we know about the life of the Jewish community in the city of Volodymyr (Pt. 1)

Today on the UJE-supported “Encounters” program dedicated to Ukrainian-Jewish relations, we are discussing the first mentions of Jewish life in the city of Volodymyr (Volodymyr-Volynskyi) and the existence of a large Jewish community in this...

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American funds, Yiddishization, and repressions: The history of one family against the backdrop of the first decades of the USSR

The historian Iryna Radchenko discusses Dnipro[petrovsk] during the interwar period, Stalinist repressions, and the denunciation of the Jewish physician Boris Khanis.  In the hundred years between the second half of the nineteenth century and the...

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