CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Petrova, Olga Mykolaivna |
|---|---|
| Title | The Jewish Question in the Ukrainian Revolution (1919-1920): A Reappraisal of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations Based on the Daily Ukraina |
| Summary | The Russian Revolution of March 1917 brought about democratization of the Russian society and provided Ukrainians with an opportunity to realize their right to self-determination. The project of the Ukrainian state evolved from the proclamation of autonomy to the daring effort of establishing an independent Ukrainian People`s Republic. This republic was one of the first states in the world to recognize the right of the Jewish population to national-personal autonomy and to attempt implementing it in practice. This effort, however, was doomed to fail due to the mounting Bolshevik threat and as a result of the destructive wave of anti-Jewish violence that swept across ethnically Ukrainian territories, coinciding largely with the period of the so-called Directory, the rule of the provisional body established by Ukrainian national forces at the end of 1918. Therefore, the whole Ukrainian state-building project of 1919-1920 has long been treated in historiography as the bulwark of popular Ukrainian antisemitism. The aim of my thesis is to review this attitude and treatment of the Directory`s rule by critically looking at Ukraїna, the official newspaper published by the Directory`s Army Staff and featuring a considerable amount of Jewish-related content. In my work, I argue that Ukraїna may serve as an example of how the Ukrainian national leaders of the Directory tried to improve Ukrainian-Jewish relations by the wide press coverage of Ukrainian-Jewish cooperation in the column “From the Life of the Jewry” and in other news items and articles, published in this newspaper. This was done to enhance Ukrainian-Jewish cooperation by acquainting Ukrainian readership with the life of the Jewish population and by fixing a positive and sympathetic image of the Jew and Jewish community. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Michael L., Rieber, Alfred J. |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/petrova_olga.pdf |
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