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October 27, 2021

Ukraine May Finally Be Coming to Terms with Its Jewish Past

“Thanks to Putin, there are now Ukrainian Jews,” not just Jews who happen to live in Ukraine.

From the 17th century onward, Ukraine—first as part of Poland, then as part of Russia—had one of the world’s largest Jewish populations, peaking at 2.7 million on the eve of the Holocaust, and remaining around 250,000 even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is also a country whose national movement has been inextricably tied up with anti-Semitism, and none of the past four centuries has gone by without vicious outbreaks of anti-Jewish violence. Yet things seem at last to be changing, writes David Lepeska:

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