After centuries of discrimination
can throw at them will deter up to 30,000 mostly foreign Jews from making their annual pilgrimage to the Ukrainian town of Uman, 200km south of Kyiv, this week. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, falls on September 15th-17th, and the visitors will mark it by praying at the grave of Nachman of Breslov, a rabbi who founded an important branch of Hasidism over 200 years ago.
Russia’s president went into full conspiracy mode, saying that Mr Zelensky had been put in his position by his “Western curators” and that this made “the whole situation extremely disgusting, in that an ethnic Jew is covering up the glorification of Nazism.” For older Jews the name Ukraine is almost synonymous with the word “pogrom”. National heroes of Ukraine like Bohdan Khmelnytsky, a 17th-century Cossack commander, are remembered by Jews as responsible for the deaths of thousands. Today many Ukrainians revere Stepan Bandera, whose followers fought the Red Army after 1944. They know, or choose to know, little about the murder of Poles and Jews at the hands of Bandera’s followers.
“That may come as some surprise” to many, says Edward Serotta, the director of Centropa, a Vienna-based organisation dedicated to preserving Jewish memory in central and eastern Europe. Not to him. Ukrainians are enthusiastically learning about their country’s Jewish past. This March 210 Ukrainian teachers applied for 60 places on seminars on how to use Centropa’s resources, and then travelled for many hours to get to them.
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