from each group against the other and by promoting Jewish emigration out of Ukraine. Thus, it
is not too much freedom, but rather the absence of freedom from rule by Moscow's appointees that
most stands in the way of good Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Third, it is surprising to hear an
American objecting to freedom from slavery. Some 60 Minutes viewers will notice that Mr. Safer
objects to it on behalf of other people and not on behalf of Americans. I expect that if anyone
were to argue that American anti-Semitism or America's low quality of education or America's
high crime rate is the result of America having broken away from England, Mr. Safer would not
agree. I expect also that if England had been guilty of the horrific crimes against America
that Russia has been guilty of against Ukraine, Mr. Safer would find the suggestion odious. In
fact, Mr. Safer's suggestion is as odious to Ukrainians as would be the suggestion that Israel
would be better off under German rule would be odious to Jews. No, Mr. Safer's suggestion is
more odious - this because Berlin today is not ruled by former Nazis, whereas Moscow today is
ruled by people who just a few years ago were ardent Communists and who today continue to be
ardent imperialists.
CONTENTS:
Preface
The Galicia Division
Quality of Translation
Ukrainian Homogeneity
Were Ukrainians Nazis?
Simon Wiesenthal
What Happened in Lviv?
Nazi Propaganda Film
Collective Guilt
Paralysis of the Comparative
Function
60 Minutes' Cheap Shots
Ukrainian Anti-Semitism
Jewish Ukrainophobia
Mailbag
A Sense of Responsibility
What 60 Minutes Should Do
PostScript
Ukrainian Anti-Semitism
Is there any? Of course there is. Anti-Semitism is universal. Ukraine has some, just as does
the United States or Canada or Israel. But is there more anti-Semitism in Ukraine than
elsewhere? 60 Minutes said so - as much as said that Ukraine leads the world in anti-Semitism
but failed to provide any evidence of this, and in fact does not seem to be aware of how to go
about obtaining such evidence.
The American Jewish Committee did a better job - it sponsored a survey in 1992 about attitudes
toward Jews in the republics of the former Soviet Union, and its findings do not support 60
Minutes' allegations:
Based on the total of anti-Jewish responses to items appearing in the
questionnaire, the rank order of the states from most hostile to least hostile
toward Jews in 1992 is as follows: Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Lithuania,
Azerbaijan, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova and Estonia. (Ukrainian Weekly,
June 21, 1992, p. 6)
Worthy of note, too, is that between 1990 and 1992, attitudes toward Jews became more negative
in all of the above republics, with the exception of Ukraine and Moldova, in which two republics