Panel discussion: Ukrainians, Jews, and War, London Book Fair, 18 April 2023

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the world. Russian leader Vladimir Putin used the ‘de-Nazification’ of the country as the war’s excuse, an absurdity considering Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jew, won the Ukrainian presidency in a landslide victory in 2019. In the year since the war began, Ukrainians, Jews, and other nationalities have fought together on the battlefield and in the global civic space, resoundingly refuting Putin’s mythmaking. Canadian historian and UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi and American journalist Vladislav Davidzon discussed with Britain’s Jake Wallis Simons, editor of The Jewish Chronicle, the current and past relationship between Ukrainians and Jews in forming a new political state.

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