Lecture 13: Orthodoxy, Protestant Reformations, and the Union of Brest

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.

1:38 Structure of Western Church compared to the Eastern Church
3:47 Religion and culture in Ukraine 16th and 17th centuries map
10:30 The Near Caves of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine
13:03 Kostiantyn Vasyl Ostroz'kyi
13:53 Ostroh Academy. Ostroh Bible. The first complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic, published in Ostroh, Ukraine (1581)
24:24 Jan Hus, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther
26:10 John Calvin
46:20 Charter of the Union of Brest (1596)

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.