{"id":32880,"date":"2025-03-05T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:29:22","slug":"lecture-5-the-slavs-and-khazars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/lecture-5-the-slavs-and-khazars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 5: The Slavs and Khazars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine: A History. Lecture 5: The Slavs and Khazars\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RRy1_lZIy9E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Professor Paul Robert Magocsi \u2014 Ukraine: A History Course.<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Magocsi, one of the world\u2019s 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\u2019s importance to global security today.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Recordings of the lecture series were made possible with the support of the Temerty Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>All the lectures are available on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLGDWF-S8Wt4XVNFMHOt1UvlMwg_HlP9Ov\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=30s\">0:30<\/a> Typical proto-Slavic settlement pattern along a valley in the forest steppe zone. Bronze artifacts and pottery associated with the Zarubyntsi culture along the middle Dnieper region, second century BC<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=158s\">2:38<\/a> Map of original homeland of the Slavs<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=180s\">3:00<\/a> Jan Peisker<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=262s\">4:22<\/a> Lubor Niederle, Max Vasmer<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=390s\">6:30<\/a> Boris Rybakov<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=519s\">8:39<\/a> The Greeks and the Scythians in Ukraine map<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=825s\">13:45<\/a> Alans, Antes began to organize Slavic tribes living farther north, beyond the open steppe - Podolia, Galicia, Volhynia<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=870s\">14:30<\/a> Archeological findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarkel along the lower Don River<\/li>\n<li>Sixth-century Byzantine Christian basilica in Chersonesus on the southern coast of the Crimea near present day Sevastopol<\/li>\n<li>Scythian burial mound (kurhan), Chortyk, just northwest of Kamianka, measured 20 meters high and 350 meters in diameter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1128s\">18:48<\/a> Reconstruction of a Polianian tribal hill-fort (horodyshche) at Chuchyn along the Right Bank of the Dnieper River<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1194s\">19:54<\/a> Arabic or Kufic coins and silver jewellry found along the Volga-Dnieper Trade routes<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1290s\">21:30<\/a> Original homeland of the Slavs map<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1578s\">26:18<\/a> East Slavic tribes paying tribute to the Khazars as depicted in the 15-century Radzill Chronicle<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1700s\">28:20<\/a> Khazar Kaganate map: Itil', Sarkel (Bila Vezha), Samander, Tmutorokan', Doros, Chersonesus, Roden'<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1827s\">30:27<\/a> Reconstruction of a Polianian tribal hill-fort (horodyshche) at Chuchyn along the Right Bank of the Dnieper River<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=1940s\">32:20<\/a> Slavic tribes map<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=2180s\">36:20<\/a> The Byzantine monks Cyril and Methodius translating Biblical texts into Old Slavonic as depicted in the 15th-century Radziwill Chronicle<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRy1_lZIy9E&amp;t=2652s\">44:12<\/a> Trade routes, 8th-10th centuries<\/p>\n<p>For further information, you may wish to consult: <a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9781442610217\">A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples<\/a> (University of Toronto Press, 2010)<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Paul Magocsi<br \/>\nChair of Ukrainian Studies University of Toronto<br \/>\nToronto, Canada, September 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Paul Robert Magocsi \u2014 Ukraine: A History Course. 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