Ukraine’s Vanquished Jews: Daunting struggle to preserve Jewish heritage

I do not understand why Jews want to live in Ukraine. No Ukrainian can live in Israel. So why shouuld we have to accommodate other nationalities?

Strongly agree with you. I would like to see them TRY to force themselves into my homeland, as they did in Palestine and everywhere else. Squashed!

If i were Jewish and lived in Ukraine and my ancestors also for a few thousands years, why shouldn't I want to live there. Their contributions to every place they have lived has been enormous and all humanity has been enriched because of them. In America they have more Jewish doctors and thank God for that for I had to use one a few years ago and he saved my life. Why such bitterness toward them. We as Christians have done everything possible to eliminate them from this life, and no race has had to endure what we have inflicted on them. How could that be and we still call ourselves Christians. Tom, Bayonne, New Jersey

the Palestinians are the natives of the land they called israel. Read the bible it says the land of PALESTINE!

The Canaanites were the first people to inhabit that region next on the list were the Philistines/ Palestinians third were the so-called Hebrews. They may have had an uneasy truse and all the "bloodshed" was written in later to make a more interesting story. Though when Mythical Moses and the others said "put them to the sword.." through out the bible...what does that say? According to some the Elite Royal Guard in ancient Jerusalem were Philistines that the first Hebrew king could trust as opposed to his own "people"...

What did you mean? The jews were not in Ukraine for "thousands of years" The ancient Israelis never built any cities outside of the region. The Ancient Greeks did and the jews as merchants went to ready made cities.

Lets see...."enormous contributions..."

communism nazim zionism? How about the 6olshevik jew destruction of Tsarist Russia? HOLODOMOR? read about it. That was a contribution with your way of thinking. Khazar empire....why is it that when the "conversos" from central Asia formerly known as the Khazars "forgot" their true history? The same with the Turkish, who are Muslims. When they assimilated these religions they seem to have forgotten their own past and mistakingly believe that they are the original peoples from the Mid East.. Only the Bulgarians , also originally from central Asia, who now are Christians remember that their origins were from central Asia and not the middle East!!!! Read some ligitimate History books.

Too clever. Ancient Israelites may not have built anything in Ukraine; but practicing Jews did. There is some evidence that Kyiv was if not built, then certainly under the suzerainty of the Khazarite Khaganate, whose elite converted en masse to Judaism.

In terms of written language, it may be that Greek arrived in present-day Ukraine first; Hebrew and Glagolitic second; Cyrillic third.

The Ancient Bulgarians, also "central Asian", were there before the Khazars. Oddly enough the soviets destroyed whatever remnants existed of the Khazar empire. I had read that the Khazars did not force any religion on their people and that they were first Islamic later becoming Jews. After their "empire" fell they seem to have clung to the misconception that they are mid-eastern descended . If these people would accept the fact that they are Ashkenazi and try to find out about their real origins..... Whatever they spoke would have been a Turkic language.They are non Semitic people. As the Persians are non Semitic people that had become Islamic. When did religion change someones race and DNA?

The Proto Ukrainians were definitely influenced by the ancient Greek people.

Anywhere in the Balkans and on the Blacksea coast as well as in the Mediterranean and in the mid east from Asia Minor to Asia Major there were Ancient Greek cities.

"...and no race has had to endure what we have inflicted on them..." Please read many books and open your eyes.

Native Americans and most of the Indiginous peoples of the world have been through a lot worse and some of those people were completely wiped out....the Palestinians are on that list.

The most rascist statement: "We are Gods Chosen People" all people are supposedly Gods Chosen People at least from a Tolerant religious point of view.....

You are right.....sadly the adherants of "globilization" and "multi-culturism" are striving to destroy whatever semblance of identity that we have. A world where there are differences is better than a "homogenous mess".

Ukrainians can, and do, live in Israel. A fair number of non-Jewish family members arrived with relatives in the post-Soviet migration, others currently work in Israel, others are trafficked there, others have emigrated to Israel for the purpose of marriage.

There are conflicting statistics, but it appears that Jews form a shrinking majority in the state of Israel, and are a minority in the "Land of Israel" (from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea).

Another excellent piece of writing. Thank you Natalia!

Why does the Kyiv Post not print more quality journalism from its staff, in place of rubbish such as Digital Tonto?

I beleive this particular newspaper is owned by a Pakistani native, called Muhammed Zahoor (sp?); something tells me he is not Jewish.

Interesting. When the Greeks and Armenians that murdered in the Genocide in Asia Minor caused by the Turks no one cared. Even Hitler was quoted as to saying "Who remembers the Armenian Genocide?.."

The write of this is supposedly Ukrainian? Your people were murdered in the 6olshevik jew caused HOLODOMOR. When the jews acknowledge that there were other Genocides and mass murders commited to other groups of people and that they do not "own the monopoly" on Genocide then maybe I can take them seriously. When a majority of high ranking Nazis were of jewish descent what does this say? Why is it that the genocide of the so-called Gypsys is never mentioned? When the "Rabbis " deny that other people suffered then they are not spititual at all. These people that "DENY" give a bad name to the good Jews that are abroad. Lastly do you condone what is happening in Palestine?

Israel’s President Shimon Peres suggested one solution on November 25, 2010, when, while on a state visit to Kyiv, he enjoined Ukrainians to “forget history.” Taken to its logical conclusion, Peres’s proposal would also have Jews forget history, with the presumably happy result that both sides could forge relations on the basis of current concerns and not past memories

http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/motyl/Ukrainians_and_Jews_and_Ukrainians_and_Jews_and_

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Subject: Президент Ізраїлю радить українцям забути свою історію



Видно Шимонові треба щоби Україна знов стала "безісторичною нацією".

http://www.unian.net/ukr/news/news-408151.html

Президент Ізраїлю радить українцям забути свою історію

Президент держави Ізраїль Шимон ПЕРЕС порадив українцям забути про свою історію і опікуватися наукою.

Як передає кореспондент УНІАН, про це він сказав, виступаючи з лекцією «Політичні та економічні виклики в епоху глобалізації», організованої фондом «Ефективного управління» в Кабміні.

“Якби мене українці спитали пораду, я б сказав: забудьте історію. Історія неважлива взагалі», - зауважив Ш.ПЕРЕС.

Він підкреслив, що дехто говорить про необхідність вивчати історію, щоб не повторювати помилок минулого. Він назвав це нонсенсом та безглуздям. «Вам не вдасться повторити помилки минулого, ви просто наробите нових помилок. Немає там що вчити в цій історії», - сказав Президент Ізраїлю.

Він вважає, що історію, крім духовних надбань культури та літератури, варто відкинути.

На думку Ш.ПЕРЕСА, краще заглибитись в науку, яка є «війною проти сліпоти». «Світ існував і в часи Мойсея, і Христа, і Магомета, але просто у них, наприклад, не було окулярів, мікроскопа, телескопа. Коли відкриваються очі, починаєте більше бачити і більше створювати, і навіть сьогодні ми наполовину сліпі», - сказав Президент Ізраїлю.

Він порадив історикам писати історичні книжки і викладати їх в Інтернеті, а решті людей дивитись в майбутнє.

При цьому Ш.ПЕРЕС закликав Україну разом з Ізраїлем працювати в науково-технічній сфері. «Наступні 10 років стануть найсенсаційнішими, якщо говорити про науку», - сказав він.

Ш.ПЕРЕС приділив велику увагу тому, чого може досягнути людина завдяки розвитку науки. Зокрема, він говорив і про освоєння нових планет, і про освоєння нових можливостей мозку людини, про створення штучного мозку, нові матеріали, технології тощо. «Час настав розпочати цю подорож, краще разом, краще в співробітництві, краще в правильному напрямку», - сказав Ш.ПЕРЕС.

those that forget history are doomed to repeat it.

those that obsess history make no progress

those that learn from history......

Is that Sauroman the wizard?!?!?

Russia behind planned provocations in Lviv on June 22

The rally by “Jews Against Hurvitz” and “Jews Against Anti-Semitism” Odesa-based NGOs in Lviv is an “orchestrated anti-Ukrainian provocation,” says Josif Zisels, the head of the Eurasian Jewish Congress and the Association of Jewish Organizations in Ukraine and former dissident.

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He says Jews Against Hurvitz is known for its demands to call Joseph Stalin the Righteous Man No. 1 in the world. “You cannot imagine a more glaring hypocritical demand, considering the amount of suffering the Soviet regime had inflicted on the Jews,” he says.

The investigation carried out by the Eurasian Jewish Congress, Zisels says, has confirmed that the mentioned Jewish NGOs are run not by Jews but by those with links to radical Russian nationalist groups with anti-Semitic views. One of such organizations is ZUBR, a pro-Russian Ukrainian NGO aiming to unite Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in a single state.

Many Odesa-based public figures and journalists believe that ZUBR is funded by a local businessman and lawmaker, the leader of openly pro-Kremlin Rodina party, Ihor Markov.