Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - FWD: 16 Jews from Ukraine Who Changed the World

yes, in my family they -- the grandparents--were russian, no one said Ukrainians.

and to add to the nice part of the story, you have to know why they left. it was largely pogroms that drove them out, after the tsar alexander 2 was assassinated in the 1880s.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Once upon a time they were Russians.

Right?

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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Please be cautious: **External Email**

Selman Waksman 

Selman Waksman was born in 1888 in a small village outside of Vinnytsia, Ukraine. As a researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Waksman discovered a number of antibiotics, which led to the first successful treatment of tuberculosis. Waksman was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine for his contributions to microbiology. Many other Ukrainian Jewish scientists have made sterling contributions, including Waldemar Haffkine, the microbiologist credited with developing the first vaccines for cholera and bubonic plague, who was born in Odessa in 1860.

Jan Koum 

Born in Kyiv in 1976, Jan Koum immigrated to California with his mother as a teenager. After working for several years in cybersecurity and programming, Koum invented the messaging application WhatsApp in 2009. WhatsApp has billions of users worldwide and was acquired by Facebook's Meta Platforms for $19.3 billion in 2014. 

These are heavy weights in science. We need to develop more talents like these in Africa in addition to the arts and culture talents that abound.

Biko

On Friday, 4 March 2022, 18:43:13 GMT-5, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

16 Jews from Ukraine Who Changed the World

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