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Ukrainian Jew
Extracted from the Wikipedia article History of the Jews in Ukraine.
Ukrainian People's Republic
Among the prominent Ukrainian Jewish statesmen of this period were Moisei Rafes, Pinkhas Krasny, Abram Revutsky, Moishe Zilberfarb, and many others. (see General Secretariat of Ukraine) The autonomy of Ukraine was openly greeted by Volodymyr Zhabotinsky, himself a native of Ukraine. In total, deputies from Jewish parties had 35 seats in Ukraine's legislative organs, and some of them served as part of the Ukrainian diplomatic corps. However, very few Jews were present in Ukrainian political parties, and the general part of the Jewish community in Ukraine tended to support Russian unity, while others sympathized with the Bolsheviks. As a result, most Jewish deputies abstained or voted against the Tsentralna Rada's Fourth Universal of 25 January 1918 which was aimed at breaking ties with Bolshevik Russia and proclaiming a sovereign Ukrainian state, since all Jewish parties were strongly against Ukrainian independence.