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.

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.

Always learn something new from your lectures

Congrats on episode 100!

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

Thank You Henry. Very important in this times.

Thank you - for another informative history lesson = )

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

As always another winner:))

Liked before I watched it

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

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.

Thankyou

Excelent lecture about history of jews in Ucraine.

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.

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

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!

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

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Those are some damn good lawyers

Todah Prof. - I was surprised to discover their are still 75,000 Yehudim in Ukraine now, and the Ukraine President is Jewish too. -- We need to be praying for them, as Putin is massing his Army on their border.

...After the first world war, the west continued east for a few years....The Communist were able to withstand onslaughts from many sides....The west had to retreat, as the Russians and Communist consolidated, their control over the populations and lands....Many smaller ethnic groups and nations were caught in the middle, and had to make the best of things....The Czar wasn't restored, and the roaring twenties was a roaring time in world history.... Fortunately, Jews and others managed.....

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.

kind of your specialty ;) not that you don't know everything about History ;)

No suffering no dignity and no nation, the Jewish people jumped so many obstacles to build their nation ,tell me our professor do you speak french ?🤔🤔

Maybe because the Tulmud... a book made by man- not by God- describes Jesus as 'boiling in excrement'... causes tension in europe? What a surprise.