Lecture 12: Poland-Lithuania — socioeconomic developments

Professor Paul Robert Magocsi — Ukraine: A History Course.

The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. Magocsi recorded 45 lectures in 2023 at the University of Toronto, where he holds the professorial Chair of Ukrainian Studies and is a history and political science professor. He is also a Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Magocsi, one of the world’s leading experts on Ukraine, explores this fascinating country in all its complexity, from its history, culture, geography, politics, and multi-ethnic composition. The lectures are an important counterweight to Russian propaganda and explain Ukraine’s importance to global security today.

Time stamps are available for each lecture. Auto-translate is available in Ukrainian, major European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages, including Hebrew and Yiddish.

Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.

All the lectures are available on YouTube here.

3:42 Ukraine after 1569
34:04 Peasant-serfs labouring on a Polish manorial estate
39:15 Jewish leaseholder with a tenant farmer
39:48 Jewish couple from the Polish Kingdom in traditional dress
40:08 Peasants and Jews of Galicia
41:42 Statute of Kalisz 1264
42:41 Masthead of Kol Mevaser, the first periodical ever published in Yiddish (Odesa, 1862–72). Heder (elementary Jewish school) boys in Kamyanets-Podilskyi, photo early 1900s
44:03 Jewish communities in Ukraine 1648–1649 map

For further information, you may wish to consult: A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (University of Toronto Press, 2010)

Robert Paul Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada, September 2023.