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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Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and the Holocaust: new documents and new interpretations of historical contexts

During the Second World War, Count Andrei Sheptytsky, the metropolitan of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), rescued approximately 100–150 Jews, both adults and children. This well-known fact figures in numerous scholarly and semi-popular books...

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