Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem)
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 [43] (2000) 5-35
Keywords:
Jews Historiography
;
Jews History
;
Jews History
;
Jews History
Abstract:
Discusses early 20th-century views of Ukrainian historians of three schools - the populist, the national-statist, and the hetman-conservative - in regard to Jewish-Ukrainian relations. The first viewed Jews as exploiters, intermediaries between the ruling classes and the Ukrainian masses. Hence, the populists justified pogroms against the Jews as enemies of the Ukrainian people and stereotyped them as aliens, etc. National-statist historians associated the Jews with capitalism and communism, stereotyping them culturally in a manner that had elements of racism. These historians had a complex view of the causes of pogroms. The hetman-conservatives absolved the Ukrainians in general and Chmielnicki in particular of responsibility for pogroms against the Jews by blaming non-Ukrainian rulers. Any pogroms perpetrated under Ukrainian rule were attributed to the masses, not the elite. Regarding attitudes toward contemporary Jews in the early 20th century, the populists opposed political contacts with Jews, the national-statists were willing to collaborate with Jews in building a Ukrainian national state, and the hetmanites were willing to work with Jews, as well as others, who accepted their values.
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