Жорж Клємансо: «Біля підніжжя Синаю»

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It is a very little-known fact that a prominent French statesman, Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841–1929), who was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920, wrote several essays specifically devoted to the situation in western Ukraine. The Ukrainian translations of these essays have now been published for the first time by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society in Lviv in its publication series Спогади, щоденники, інтерв’ю / Memoirs, Diaries, and Interviews. In his series of essays entitled Au pied du Sinaï (At the Foot of Sinai), Clemenceau examines especially the situation of the Jewish minority in Galicia and reflects on it in light of the overall state of the Jewish question in Europe. In particular, his essay about the Jewish population of the Ukrainian town of Busk exhibits Clemenceau’s remarkably well-informed knowledge of the local situation in western Ukraine.