‘Power To The People’
The invasion of Ukraine is hate and bullying in the largest sense
My friend, the filmmaker, Sarah Koskoff posted the above photograph. It is her family coming to America from Ukraine more than 100 years ago. They are Ukrainian Jews fleeing the hate and anti-Semitism of the region.
Here’s what Sarah wrote:
These Ukrainian Jews are my great grandfather and grandmother, her parents (great greats) and a few great aunts and uncles circa 1902. They escaped Pogrom ravaged Yelizavetgrad (now Kirovograd) and came to New Haven where my grandfather and his six siblings (in the second photo) were able to study classical music. If you’ve ever played the Jewish gameshow “Which Pogrom Was It?” you know that Russians have been pummeling Jews and other minority groups for centuries. Zelensky, that unlikely Goliath fighter, does the ancestors proud. And his transformation to me echoes that of Henry in Shakespeare’s Henry V.
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…”
And life continues to surprise…#ukraine #davidandgoliath #standuptobullying#powertothepeople
The city Sarah mentions is in central Ukraine today. Her story is familiar to many refugee families of the world, to many peoples victimized by war, hatred, and crazy geopolitics.
