Lecture 40: Ukrainian-inhabited lands in Romania and Czechoslovakia

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.

1:04 Ukrainian/Rusyn lands in Romania and Czechoslovakia, circa 1930 map
2:45 Bessarabia, Bukovina, Maramures
7:15 Bessarabian Ukrainian farmers at rest alongside their field sheds
14:26 Volodymyr Zalozets'kyi-Sas (1884–1965), head of the Ukrainian National party (1927-1938) and main defender of Ukrainian political and cultural interests in Romanian-ruled Bukovina
18:58 Tomáš Masaryk; Linguistic map of Czechoslovakia, 1930, Languages: German, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian
29:00 Carpatho-Rusyn deputies and senators in the Czechoslovak parliament
29:26 The official symbol of the autonomous land of Subcarpathian Rus’
29:42 Central Europe, circa 1930 map
33:36 Jewish loggers in a mountain village in Subcarpathian Rus’/Transcarpathia; Working the fields in Uzhok, subcarpathian Rus'
34:49 Modern residential and Czechoslovak government quarter for the capital of Subcarpthian Rus', Uzhhorod, 1930s
37:05 Pupils in a Rusyn-language elementary school under a portrait of Czechoslovak president Tomáš G. Masaryk. Subcarpathian Rus’, 1930s
38:28 "Ukrainian" grammar of Ivan Pankevych; "Russian" grammar of Yevgenii Sabov
39:00 Prosvita Cultural-Enlightenment Society, Uzhhorod, built 1928, Dukhnovych Cultural-Enlightenment Society, Uzhhorod, built 1932

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.