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The Information Analytical Edition Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

The Information And Analytical Edition
Of The Jewish Confederation Of Ukraine

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September 2002
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BETWEEN UTOPIA
AND HISTORY
Can we talk about establishing Jewish nation? What are its relations with history, traditions, Judaism, culture of its componental groups?

Can we talk about establishing Jewish nation? What are its relations with history, traditions, Judaism, culture of its componental groups?

OLYMPIC
VENDETTA
30 years ago Palestinian terrorists savagely killed 10 Israeli sportsmen in Olympic village in Munich.

BABIY YAR -
PAIN AND MEMORY
Solemn mourning ceremony in memory of victims of Catastrophe of Ukrainian Jewry was held in Memorial Yad va-Shem September 12.

Solemn mourning ceremony in memory of victims of Catastrophe of Ukrainian Jewry was held in Memorial Yad va-Shem September 12.

JEWISH FIGURE OF BOLSHEVIK'S PARTY
Mikhail Lurje, buried in Kremlin wall, astoundingly combined his Bolshevism with active participation in solving country's Jewish problems.

Mikhail Lurje, buried in Kremlin wall, astoundingly combined his Bolshevism with active participation in solving country's Jewish problems.

Near Lament Wall

BETWEEN UTOPIA AND HISTORY

RAFAIL NUDELMAN

Unlike mice and even fish, the so-called "civilized" people do not any more sniff at each other when they meet. Still they have their own mechanisms to recognize the "akin" and the "alien". May be they inherited them from fish or even more ancient ancestors granted them by nature for survival. As far as at the dawn of human society the "akin" was a potential ally against the "alien" who was a potential danger. When united, the "akin" made a kin and a tribe, the basis of which still remains Kipling's wolf pack cry: "We are of the same blood - you and me!" Some historians apply this division into "akin" and "alien" to such complicated social phenomena as xenophobia and anti-Semitism.