Lecture 24: The peoples of Dnieper Ukraine

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.

0:25 Ukrainian lands, circa 1850
1:20 Population and Nationality composition of Ukraine, 2001
2:49 Dnieper Ukraine, circa 1850
3:02 The People's of Ukraine, circa 1900
3:45 Population and nationality composition of Ukraine, 1897
6:45 Old Believers, Lipovany
10:00 Coalminer in Iuzivka (present-day Donetsk)
11:35 Nikolai Gogol, Vladimir Korolenko, Nikolai Leskov, Ilya Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Mikhail Vrubel, Reinhold Glière, Sergei Prokofiev, Timofej Florinskij, Michael Rostovtzeff, Nikolai Berdyaev
13:30 Izmail Sreznevsky
15:02 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nikolay Ignatyev
21:21 Saint Sophia Cathedral, Zhytomyr
24:01 Adam Czartoryski. Polish-language Volhynian Liceum at Kremenets'
26:45 Polish landowning gentry receiving Ukrainian peasants before the manor house
28:32 Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Kazimir Malevich
29:55 Józef Kraszewski, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Karol Szymanowski, Leszek Dezydery Horodecki, The House of Chimeras
30:30 Apollo Korzeniowski, Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski)
33:30 Pale of Settlement map
36:10 Israel Brodsky, Lazar Brodsky, Lev Brodsky
38:10 Sholem Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof
38:50 Jewish Population in Ukraine, circa 1900
42:10 Baal Shem Tov
43:02 Hasidic Jews in Ukraine (early 20th century), Jewish men in the Ukrainian shtetl of Krasilov, circa 1916-17
45:15 Pogrom sites in Russian Empire, Kishinev pogrom, Ekaterinoslav
46:42 Menahem Beilis trial

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.