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    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....

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    Semén Aizenshtein, the forgotten pioneer of national radio technology

    Posted On: February 24th, 2020
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

    In his native land Aizenshtein’s name was consigned to oblivion, despite the fact that after Popov’s death in 1906 he became his spiritual successor and the most prominent national figure in the field of radio...

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    Ivan Franko and his Jews: childhood, student years, politics

    Posted On: October 28th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Culture, History

    I will try to define Franko’s attitude to Jews, which ranges from sincere Judeophilism to radical Judeophobia. This ambiguity in the interpretation of his views intensified after the fall of the communist regime in Ukraine....

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    What is Shevchenko? A curiosity or a manifestation of the viability of the Ukrainian people

    Posted On: October 10th, 2019
    Posted In: Literature, Sponsored Projects, Culture, Istorychna Pravda

    Many among us indeed consider Taras Shevchenko a linguistic curiosity. To them, it appears to be an oddity, a curiosity: the man had an excellent command of Russian and was able to pen his poems...

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    Mykola Krasovsky: From the Beilis affair to the Intelligence Service of the Ukrainian National Republic

    Posted On: September 24th, 2019
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

    [Editor’s note: In Kyiv in 1913 Mendel Beilis, a Jew, was accused of the ritual murder of Andrii Yushchynsky, a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. Mykola Krasovsky, the lead investigator of the Kyiv Police Department, carried out...

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    A Ukrainian bomb, a Polish target, a Jewish victim

    Posted On: September 5th, 2019
    Posted In: Ukrainian- Jewish Relations History, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

    The arrival of the only president of Poland to visit Lviv during the interwar period was overshadowed by an assassination attempt that was organized by the Ukrainian underground. A Jew named Stanisław Steiger was caught...

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    Viacheslav Chornovil, ‘General of the Zeks’: Fragments from the book “Ukrainian Silhouettes”

    Posted On: July 4th, 2019
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

    The Leningrad writer [Mikhail Kheifets] ends up behind KGB bars then in a camp in Mordovia, where the entire crème de la crème of the Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Zionist, and other anti-communist resistance movements are...

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    “Jews on the Land”: Agro-Joint in the 1920s–1930s

    Posted On: June 10th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

    Photo essay: A little-known page of Ukraine’s national history. Below is a photo essay about efforts to create Jewish colonies in the south of Ukraine and in Crimea with the help of Jewish organizations in...

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    Sholem Aleichem’s son-in-law’s search for Jewish writers in Kyiv

    Posted On: May 6th, 2019
    Posted In: Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, Diverse Voices

    “I sat down and began thinking about Jews and Ukrainians. About Ukrainians, who so extolled Ukraine to me, and about Jews, who are afraid of answering a telephone call from a Jews. And Tevye’s words...

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    Jewish Scouting: Born in Ukraine

    Posted On: April 10th, 2019
    Posted In: Jews on Ukrainian Lands, Sponsored Projects, Istorychna Pravda, Other Programs, History

    It is generally known that the city of Lviv is the birthplace of the Polish and Ukrainian scout movements: harcerstwo and Plast, respectively. However, to this day hardly anyone is aware that the capital of...

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