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rpannier

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Mon Nov 25, 2019, 07:10 PM Nov 2019

Swastika Painted On Statue Of Prominent Jewish Writer In Kyiv [View all]

Vandals have painted large swastikas on a monument of the prominent Jewish author and playwright Sholem Aleichem in Kyiv just days ahead of a summit of regional Jewish leaders in Ukraine.

Worshippers at the Brodskiy Synagogue in central Kyiv found the sculpture in the morning on November 25 vandalized with a large red swastika painted on the body of the monument, which depicts Aleichem standing with a cane in one hand while doffing his hat with the other.

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Sholem Aleichem, born as Solomon Naumoych Rabynovych in Ukraine in 1859, wrote his works in Yiddish.

His most known and popular book was a series of short stories about Tevye the Dairyman, a pious Jewish milkman living in Tsarist Russia, upon which the musical Fiddler on the Roof was based.

https://www.rferl.org/a/swastikas-painted-on-prominent-jewish-writer-sholem-aleichem-s-statue-in-kyiv/30291292.html

cross post Jewish Group

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Just a reminder Behind the Aegis Nov 2019 #1
Please, don't anyone automatically blame Ukrainians. Iterate Nov 2019 #2
Ukraine does have anti-Semites. Igel Nov 2019 #3
What?! Behind the Aegis Nov 2019 #4
Two points. I was refering to this: Iterate Nov 2019 #5
Two couterpoints. Behind the Aegis Nov 2019 #6
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