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For centuries Ukraine was both a major center of Jewish life and cultural vitality, and also the site of brutal anti-Jewish violence. In this online course, Dr. David Fishman examines the paradox of Ukrainian Jewish history.
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Once Europe's largest Jewish community, Ukraine has had a major influence on the development of Ashkenazi Jewish culture.
!['The Cossacks' Reply to the Sultan (Zaporozhtsy)', c1890, (1939). 'Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey', also known as 'Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto', 19th-century imagining of a supposed historical event of 1676, based on the legend of Cossacks sending an apparently rude and insulting reply to an ultimatum from Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire. 'On the right is Taras Bulba (in a white cap), the hero of Gogol's tale of the same name; on the left is Andrei, Taras Bulba's son; almost in the centre sits Ataman (Chief) Serko with a pipe in his mouth'. Ilya Repin (1844-1930) took nearly 20 years to paint the picture, for which Tsar Alexander III paid him 35,000 rubles, at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting. In the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]](https://www.myjewishlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1085305746-430x245.jpg)
These 17th-century Ukrainian rebels perpetrated brtual pogroms against Jews.
Jewish literature flourished in Ukraine in the late 19th and early 20th century.