It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Like much of central Europe, Ukraine has a dark and murky history in terms of its attitude to Jews. But things are beginning to change, argues Kim Sengupta
Ukraine may have made significant and welcome moves away from antisemitism but, as it seeks to take faltering steps away from a devastating conflict, a divided nation and a fractured economy, Volodymyr Zelensky, the new-style Jewish president, is likely to find he has a hard struggle ahead to deal with old style problems of vested interests, greed and graft – all of which have plagued his country for a very long time.
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