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The present article is a Russian translation from the Ukrainian publication in the Web journal Western Analytic Group (Zakhidna analitichna grupa, http://zgroup.com.ua/article.php?articleid=3473). Hrytsak agrees with Bartov that the absence of Jews in the sociohistorical landscape of contemporary Halychyna is nothing but a scandal. However, he does not consider the book Erased a good way of making sense of this scandal. Hrytsak provides a list of Bartov’s factual mistakes but does not claim that they make Bartov’s analysis irrelevant. Bartov’s main faults, according to Hrystak, are his ideologically driven selections of evidence, disregard of nuances of the Ukrainian national identities, and application of a rigid national framework to Ukrainian-Jewish encounters past and present.