While acknowledging the usefulness of Bartov’s book, which locates various places on the map of Ukraine associated with Jewish history that require urgent attention and which is stimulating public discussion of the question of Ukrainians’ involvement in the murders of Jews in 1941–1943, the reviewer emphasizes its superficiality, careless research on the history of this region, and contextual blindness. In Shkandrij’s opinion, Bartov’s narrative leaves the impression that Ukrainians are a people whose struggle for independence was in vain and whose attitude to Jews has been invariably hostile. Bartov degrades the national dimension of Ukrainian history and fails to see the positive side of Ukrainian-Jewish relations.