Article: Kharkiv ad must go

Roman Woronowycz
Ukrainian Weekly, The
05-21-1995
Kharkiv ad must go.

An ad has been appearing in several major New York publications and in radio spots about the plight of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly the subject of anti- Semitic violence while attending prayer services in a synagogue in Kharkiv. In the ad the boy recalls the incident and explains that he left the country for Israel three years later, where he is now happy and "living his dream".

The obvious point of the ad is to raise money in the U.S. to support the immigration of Jews to Israel, but it also has raised the ire of Ukrainian American,s, because once again the picture presented is one of Ukraine as the hotbed of ...

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