"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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Lesia Ukrainka shows that there were peoples in the world who were even worse off than we were, but they survived and defended themselves: Serhii Romanov

Jewish influences on Lesia Ukrainka and her works.  A conversation with Serhii Romanov, Doctor of Philological Sciences and the head of the Department of Literary Theory and Foreign Literature at Lesia Ukrainka Volyn National University,...

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