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Saved by Sheptytsky

Posted On: December 18th, 2015

Posted In: History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

“No harm will come to you here.” Lilly Pohlman says she will remember these words till the end of her days. Along with the memory of a giant of a man gently reassuring her during…

How Metropolitan Sheptytsky blessed Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state

Posted On: July 8th, 2021

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Diverse Voices, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

Eighty-seven years ago, in early July 1934, the representatives of two different worlds met at the metropolitan’s residence on St. George’s Terrace in the Lviv of the time. Count Andrei Sheptytsky, Metropolitan of the Ukrainian…

Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Documents and Materials, 1941-1944

Posted On: June 24th, 2021

Posted In: Dukh i Litera Digital Library, Sponsored Projects, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

Published for the first time are records of messages, letters from Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, and acts of the Metropolitan Ordinariate from the time of the German occupation of Eastern Galicia (1941–1944), that were kept by…

Bibi from Lviv: An undeservedly forgotten hero of the Jewish-Ukrainian dialogue

Posted On: June 23rd, 2021

Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

My immersion in this man’s biography began by accident. I discovered a brief reference in an article stating that Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky had expressed support for Zionism and the creation of a Jewish state in…

Sheptytsky is much more profound and complex

Posted On: June 2nd, 2021

Posted In: Zahid.net, Sponsored Projects, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Other Programs, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

The metropolitan on unity against the backdrop of the reigning ideas of Nazism and racial separation Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky did not leave behind any collections of philosophical or theological works or major fundamental treatises. He…

Professor Shimon Redlich: “Sheptytsky repudiated racist thinking”

Posted On: June 29th, 2020

Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

“When something nice is said in Israel about Ukrainians, people go on the attack right away. I have been attacked many a time. It’s the same with Poles, but Ukrainians get the worst of it….

Overdue recognition

Posted On: March 19th, 2020

Posted In: History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

[Editor’s note: On 7 March 2020, Israel’s The Jerusalem Post published an opinion piece by Liliana Hentosh titled “Time to reject the myths of Andrei Sheptytsky” in which the author argued for an accurate portrayal…

Time to reject the myths of Andrei Sheptytsky – opinion

Source: jpost.com

Posted On: March 9th, 2020

Posted In: Commentary, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Commentary and Analysis

Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Andrei Sheptytsky, together with Ukrainian Greek Catholic clergy, saved nearly 150 Jews in Western Ukraine during the Holocaust. On Sheptytsky’s orders, these people were provided with false documents identifying them as Greek Catholics – as well as shelter.

How do Ukrainian Greek Catholics feel in Israel?

Posted On: April 8th, 2019

Posted In: Culture, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Religion

The Ukrainian Cultural Center in Israel recently presented an evening dedicated to the memory of the prominent Ukrainian public and church figure Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky (1865-1944). Hennadiy Nadolenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to the State of…

Sheptytsky and Holocaust is discussed in London

Posted On: October 26th, 2018

Posted In: The Holocaust in Ukraine, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky

UJE Board Member Wolf Moskovich appeared with Holocaust survivor Lili Stern-Pohlmann at a presentation sponsored by London’s Ukrainian Institute and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter on 4 October 2018 to discuss the legacy of Andrei Sheptytsky,…

“The theme of Andrei Sheptytsky had an impact on me”: Shimon Redlich, a historian who survived the Holocaust

Posted On: April 23rd, 2018

Posted In: Commentary, Hromadske Radio, Sponsored Projects, Audio/Visual Media, History, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, Commentary and Analysis

Professor Shimon Redlich was saved by a Ukrainian family during the Holocaust. We talk with him about Andrei Sheptytsky and the reasons why he has not been awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations….