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Morality and reality: the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Jews during the Holocaust and World War II

Shimon

redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl

professor at Ben Gurion University, where for several years he lectured contemporary history of Europe, and the history of East European Jews. He published a.o.  War, Holocaust and Stalinism: A Documented History of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the U.S.R.R. and Razem i Osobno. Polacy, Żydzi i Ukraińcy w Brzeżanach. 1919–1945

Ben Gurion University, Israel

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), pages: 241-260

Publication date: 2008-11-02

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.273

Abstract

The article is an attempt to examine the views and activity of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Eastern Małopolska, the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, with respect to the Jews during the Holocaust. Sheptytsky’s figure is examined not only in the context of ambiguous and tense Ukrainian-Jewish relations, but also in the light of Ukrainian-Polish, Soviet-Ukrainian and Ukrainian-German relations. Sheptytsky’s views regarding the Jews were formed under various, sometimes contradictory influences. However, in comparison with the non-Jewish inhabitants of Nazi-occupied Europe, and in comparison with the position of the Orthodox Church, the Vatican and the Ukrainians, Sheptytsky’s speeches and his activities with respect to the Jews allow his inclusion among those felt responsible for their brothers’ fate.

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Redlich, S. (2008). Morality and reality: the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Jews during the Holocaust and World War II. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (4), 241-260. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.273

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No. 4 (2008)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2008-11-02

Dział: Contexts