How Volodymyr Zelensky Became Ukraine’s Jewish Hero
And why his comedy matters.
April 26, 2022
How Volodymyr Zelensky Became Ukraine’s Jewish Hero
And why his comedy matters.
In the Jewish imagination, Ukrainians are best remembered as the brutish perpetrators of pogroms. In the Ukrainian imagination, Jews have often been seen as weak and unmanly, or conniving and disloyal. Yet today a Jewish comedian has become the leader of Ukraine as it faces a brutal enemy bent on the destruction of the Ukrainian nation. He has, moreover, become a hero for much of the free world in the process. Ruth R. Wisse—in an analysis of the many moral, geopolitical, historical, and literary dynamics at play—points to the fact that this is not the first time the two peoples have “found themselves on the same side of the barricades” in the struggle for the liberation of their respective nations:
April 26, 2022
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