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March 4, 2022

The History of Ukraine through a Jewish Lens

Economic flourishing, murderous anti-Semitism, and spiritual creativity.

With the eyes of the world on the former Soviet republic, Henry Abramson—one of the foremost historians of the subject—gives a concise introduction to the long and complicated story of Ukrainian Jewish life. He begins in the 11th century, with an ancient Slavic chronicle’s tale of the first tsar’s brief flirtation with Judaism, and ends with the current Jewish president—moving through eras of economic flourishing, murderous anti-Semitism, and spiritual and literary creativity. (Video, 35 minutes.)

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