In the original article, I frequently used block quotation format to signal when I was quoting that is, the material being quoted was indented on both left and right, and a smaller font used. In the Za Vilnu Ukrainu translation, however, this indentation and smaller font were not employed, with the result that it was often difficult or impossible to tell when I was speaking and when quoting, and so that the article was rendered confusing, illogical, and incoherent. A key three-sentence paragraph in which I was at my most tolerant and conciliatory was reduced to a single mistranslated sentence which conveyed exactly the opposite meaning. The Jewish claim to a share of the newly-created nation of Ukraine is as tenable as that of the ethnic Ukrainians and of the ethnic Russians and others who reside there. At present, all three of these groups are beginning to mine that claim in relative peace.
Differences are being overlooked, cooperation is the norm, a bright future is possible.
Za Vilnu Ukrainu prefaced my article with an editorial which contained statements which in no way reflected my own views or the views contained in my article. Rabbi David Kahane together with his family and with hundreds of other Jews were hidden by Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky. Simon Wiesenthal, a notorious spy working for various intelligence services, among them the KGB, was saved from death in Hitlerite-occupied Lviv by the Ukrainian, Bodnar. Today are celebrated the names of hundreds of Ukrainians who during the so-called Holocaust risked their lives and the lives of their families and friends in order to save thousands of Jews from genocide. But they nevertheless do fanatically conduct themselves in this way.