[aaus-list] Re: most disturbing event in L'viv

[Daria Fedewytsch-Dickson]

"There is nothing worse than Ukrainians writing anti-Ukrainian pieces"  What if Ukrainians (as a State or as groups or as individuals) do something worthy of condemnation - proven beyond any reasonable doubt? 
 
Then Ukrainians would be accused (rightly) of complicity by silence. Also not a good look. Nor a good position ethically. "My country right or wrong" is one of the worst aspects of nationalism
 
Daria 

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From: aaus-list-bounces at ukrainianstudies.org [mailto:aaus-list-bounces at ukrainianstudies.org] On Behalf Of Roman Serbyn
Sent: Monday, 18 August 2008 7:57 AM
To: Natalia Pylypiuk (by way of Robert DeLossa); aaus-list at ukrainianstudies.org
Subject: Re: [aaus-list] Re: most disturbing event in L'viv


Jarosław Junko is a bona fide journalist of Polska agencja prasowa, and as such he must be responsible to the agency, if not to his conscience and the reading public. If we are to treat this matter seriously then aaus should write to PAP, make a complaint and demand an explanation and an apology. It wouldn't hurt for individual scholars, especially those involved in Polish studies and Polish-Ukrainian relations (and who know the Polish language) to write to PAP individually. There is nothing worse than Ukrainians writing anti-Ukrainian pieces, knowing very well that these will be immediately picked up by people who have been conditioned by generations of Ukrainophobic propaganda (and a good deal of truth as well) to jump at the first occasion to prove how "genetically xenophibic" Ukrainians are. 

I remember, how, many years ago Barbara Tuchman gave a lecture at a Montreal synagogue  and touched on how some young Jews , formed in a non-Jewish and often anti-Jewish atmosphere adopted some of these anti-Jewish attitudes in their own approaches to things Jewish. I don't know to what degree this still applies to the Jewish community, but I think it is not hard to see how this is applicable to some of our own Ukrainians journalists and academics in Ukraine and in the West. We have seen how a silly article published by (of all newspapers!) Dzerkalo Tyzhnia on the Hitler doll started the Ukrainophobic waves in Russia and the West.  There is no reason to tolerate such things by the Ukrainian scholarly community. But, of course, it must find out the facts and REACT.

Roman Serbyn


Le 17/08/08 10:17, < Natalia Pylypiuk   (by way of Robert DeLossa) > <natalia.pylypiuk at ualberta.ca> a écrit :



		Dear Collegues,
		
		On August 5 I wrote the AAUS promising to obtain more information
		on the events in L'viv.  An unexpected trip and
		the dramatic events in Georgia delayed my report.
		
		All of the L'viv colleagues who responded to me indicated that Junko's report
		was not reliable, that no cultural centre was involved, and that in all
		likelihood, it was a *pobutova sprava* involving neighbours
		reacting to noisy neighbours after hours.
		
		The historian Vasyl' Rasevych has published a lengthy article devoted
		to the pogroms of July 1941. In this article, he critizes Junko for
		irresponsible journalism. I quote:
		




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