A meeting with the blogger "Angry Jew": Ukrainian–Jewish relations in the first half of the 20th century (30.04.2024)

An interview by the “Vox veritatis” channel with the Israeli blogger “Angry Jew”; the host — historian Vitalii Dribnytsia — works through the subject of Jewish pogroms during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1918–1921 thoroughly and honestly. The key points: the pogroms were carried out by various forces (armies linked to the UNR; the Red Army; Denikin’s forces; peasant atamans, the “fathers”), the historian acknowledges that part of the UNR’s troops were involved, but shows the lack of control during a time of anarchy; the official position of the Directory (the Ministry of Jewish Affairs, the law on national-personal autonomy, banknotes in three languages); the Proskuriv pogrom of Ataman Semesenko; the assessment of historian Yurii Mytrofanenko. A source for the section “Pogroms of the revolutionary period” in the article on the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921.