An interesting and little-reported offshoot of the current crisis between Russia and Ukraine is how it’s affecting the identity of Ukraine’s Jews. They’re starting to call themselves Ukrainians.... Dmitro Brook is a journalist in Kharkov, one of the cities that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed was full of Russian sympathizers yearning to breathe free. He, too, told our group that he considers himself Ukrainian, and so do his friends. “Even though the language used most of the time is Russian, the population — Jews, Armenians and Ukrainians — see the city as a Ukrainian city,” he said.... “Like French Jews say they are French, Ukrainian Jews consider themselves Ukrainian,” he said. Source: jweekly/article/full/72632/the-column-jews-in-ukraine-wrapping-themselves-in-blue-and-yellow/#.VCTFBKKVWp0.email
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:29:48 +0000
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