100. Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times (Jewish History Lab)

A brief look at the unusual rapprochement of Ukrainians and Jews after the fall of the Russian Empire, and its failure amidst invasion and civil war.

Texts mentioned in this lecture:

Online Courses:

Biblical Jewish History: From Abraham to Bar Kochba

A Thousand Years of Ashkenaz!

The Holocaust

[melodyh]

Thank you for the history and struggles of Ukraine and Russia. It helps me peice together the present. Definitely praying for Ukraine in these fearful times.

[darrenglick]

Always learn something new from your lectures

[austengibbs]

Your lectures continue to educate, enthrall and provide incredible insight and knowledge. Todah rabah Rabbi.

[pheebsbee]

Thank you - for another informative history lesson = )

[lilysignoret]

I recieved your book today. Mazal tov on the 100th class in this series!

[karlschreiber]

Thank You Henry. Very important in this times.

[Zeyev]

Thanks. My grandfathers both came from today's Ukraine, my paternal from Odessa and my maternal from Mykolaiv on Dniester. They came to the USA long before the post-WWI fighting. Other than that, we know practically nothing about them.

[messidor]

Thank you so much for your excellent videos Dr. Abramson. Cheers from Paris.

[nazarlukashov]

0:48 Actually in the top left corner of the bill, it goes in pre-revolutionary Russian, not Ukrainian. Yet, the three smaller text boxes are in Ukrainian.

[christopherperezperez]

Great presentation. Would you mind If I shared shorter clip versions online. ?

[Headhunter_]

Thanks as always Dr A
This is the period during which my wife’s people (maternal GM & GF and his brothers) fled Odessa in 1920. First to Europe London Cuba and then the land of milk and honey, i.e. Brooklyn, 516 and 305. And thanks for the suggested reading. I’ll pick those up.

[lilysignoret]

Pr Abramson, can I talk to you, about the book? How can I best reach you?

[LAILA-]

Rabbi it's been ages I've been away miss your jokes
And I would have thought you would be in front of a live audience by now rabbi
Hope you and family are well
I'm playing catch up
Boru hashem! (I learnt that from you by the way 😊)
Look forward to catching up.

[dmitryberger]

Was a little disappointed to hear about Makhno's anarchist movement in the context of Jewish pogroms. Whereas the Makhnovists had a serious spat with the German colonists, not Mennonites, but most Catholics, who took up arms against the insurgency, they, being anarchist-internationalists, were not anti-Semitic at all, In fact their leadership featured quite a few Jews: Kogan, Chernoknizhny, and famous Liev Zadov and Volin, a prominent anarchist thinker. Zeleny (Green) were not anarchists, just a mix groups of anti-goverments insurgents.

[goranmiljus]

Everyone was oppressed, NOT just the Jews.
Actually i would argue the city folk (jews) had it better than the rural peasants.
Just as the average New Yorker has it better than a rural American.

[xSolomonx]

A really good video! Shame about the nester makno slander though, he executed the bandit that did that progrom

[robertomorales]

Excelent lecture about history of jews in Ucraine.

[michaelgoldstein]

Thanks for this amazing lecture! I'm curious if the 100 karbovanec bill that you showed was from the Ukranian people's republic or the Western Ukrainian people's republic. A bit surprised to see Polish on a bill from the former but not from the latter. Thanks!

[matthewsainsbury]

Thank you henry abramson for youre imformative video as we see that ukraine and russia are on the news now more than ever, the polgroms history you shared im not to familiar with since the nazi holocaust is most familiar happy upcoming purim to you

[SionTJobbins]

incredible to see Yiddish (in Hebrew script!) on an European banknote. And to think supporters of Ukrainian independence seem (by Russian supporters) to be always anti-Semitic and is used as one argument against Ukrainian independence (though, that's never used against the German right to be independent). This, of course, doesn't mean that the discraceful treatement of Jews by Ukrainians shouldn't be discussed openly, but it does give some balance.

Your point Henry about minority/immigrant communities aligning themselves with the stonger and dominant (though, in colonised countries, not always the biggest community numerically) language, culture and state-affiliation is excellent, and often not noted or ignored. Same is true of Jewish community in Prague in early C20th who aligned with German language culture although German was, by then, a minority community language in Prague which had become re-Czechised in the C19th. In a way, the language and state-affiliation shown by minority/immigrant cultures is a good baraometer of which language and nationality is the most dominant one within the state.