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The History of Anti Jewish Violence in Ukraine
The history of anti jewish sentiment and also anti jewish violence in ukraine is so deep and so profound, there are liturgical prayers in jewish prayer books about massacres. Wave after wave of violence was a often um deliberately fanned, a encouraged and amplified by the czarist authorities who wanted to distract local peasants from the real problem. So they liked that there was some one to blame and someone to operate as a punching bag and a release, a release for resentments in local populations. What is astonishing is not just that ukrane is now the only country in the world, other than the jewish state of israel, to have had not only a jewish president