Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewishness
How the Ukrainian leader emerged as the symbol of a nation that has “perpetually tried to spit [Jews] out.”
March 3, 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewishness
How the Ukrainian leader emerged as the symbol of a nation that has “perpetually tried to spit [Jews] out.”
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was born in the Soviet Union, where “Jews were perceived as the eternal outsiders, possible fifth columnists, the ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ of Stalin’s imagination,” as Gal Beckerman writes. Beckerman traces Zelensky’s unlikely path to the top leadership role in Ukraine, and what it reveals about Ukrainian-Jewish life.
March 3, 2022
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