{"id":35205,"date":"2025-11-12T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=35205"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:21:02","slug":"lecture-41-the-coming-of-world-war-ii-1938-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/lecture-41-the-coming-of-world-war-ii-1938-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 41: The coming of World War II, 1938\u20131941"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ukraine: A History. Lecture 41: The coming of World War II, 1938-1941\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eezA9b1nP8o?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=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=161s\">2:41<\/a> Central Europe, 1930 map<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=421s\">7:01<\/a> Adolf Hitler stands next to President Hindenburg shortly after becoming chancellor on 30 January 1933<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=739s\">12:19<\/a> Germans in Central Europe, Eastern Europe1900<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=956s\">15:56<\/a> From left to right: Neville Chamberlain, \u00c9douard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Galeazzo Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement (1938)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1278s\">21:18<\/a> Carpatho-Ukraine 1938\u20131939<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1318s\">21:58<\/a> Andryi Br\u00f3dyi<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1352s\">22:32<\/a> Avgustyn Voloshyn, Iuliian Revai<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1390s\">23:10<\/a> Seat of Carpatho-Ukraine's government in Khust, 1939<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1451s\">24:11<\/a> Carpathian Sich<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1476s\">24:36<\/a> Ukrainian nationalists from Galicia in Khust, early 1939<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=1713s\">28:33<\/a> Declaration of independent Carpatho-Ukraine and election of Avgustyn Voloshyn (bottom right) as president, Khust, 15 March 1939; Hungarian soldiers treat a wounded soldier after facing armed resistance from the Carpathian Sich, March 1939<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2040s\">34:00<\/a> Iosif Stalin and Naxi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop look on as Soviet foreign minister Viacheslav Molotov signs a pact between the two countries, 23 August 1939<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2124s\">35:24<\/a> Western Ukraine 1939\u20131941 map<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2251s\">37:31<\/a> Germany invades Poland map<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2359s\">39:19<\/a> Western Ukraine, map 1939\u20131941; Hans Frank, governor-general of Nazi Germany's Generalgouvernment, reviewing Ukrainian volunteers for the Galicia Division, L'viv, June 1943<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2433s\">40:33<\/a> Delegates of Western Ukraine's people's assembly received by Stalin in Moscow, 4 November 1939<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2498s\">41:38<\/a> Soviet troops on the streets of Chernivtsi distributing newspapers confirming the Soviet annexation of norther Bukovina, June 1940<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2698s\">44:58<\/a> Prisoners of Polish ethnicity from western Ukraine deported to Soviet slave labor camps<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2315s\">38:35<\/a> Andriy Melnyk, Stepan Bandera, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eezA9b1nP8o&amp;t=2841s\">47:21<\/a> The presidium of the Ukrainian Central Committee in 1943. Sitting (right\u2013left), K. Pankivskyi, V. Kubijovyc, V. Hlibovytskyi; Standing: Z. Zelenyi, Rev. M. Sopuliak, P. Isaiv, A. Figol, O. Tarnavskyi, Ya. Mazurak, M. Kushnir<\/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. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is pleased to present a lecture series by Paul Robert Magocsi titled Ukraine: A History Course. 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