Lviv, Ukraine – A Jewish non-governmental organization Thursday urged Euro 2012 fans not to visit a restaurant in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, accused of running an “anti-Semitic” theme.
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Diners “At the Golden Rose” tavern in the city centre are treated to Klezmer music, given black hats with black sidelocks to wear and are told to haggle over the price of their food.
The small number of Jews left in Lviv have called it an outrage and a mockery, especially since the city’s once proud and vibrant Jewish community was virtually wiped out in the Holocaust.
The eatery is part of a chain of restaurants with gimmicky historical themes, whose owners have said they want to give a feel of Jewish life before World War II.
Efraim Zuroff, of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which strives to bring ex-Nazis to justice and raise Holocaust awareness, said haggling Jews were a “notorious” Eastern European anti-Semitic stereotype.
He also called for a boycott of “Kryvika,” another restaurant in the chain.
Designed as a bunker and translated as “hide-out,” it pays tribute to Ukrainian nationalist forces, “who collaborated with the Nazis and whose supporters participated in the mass murder of local Jews in 1941.”
By visiting these restaurants, football fans would unwittingly support far-right views and “insult” the memory of tens of thousands of Holocaust victims from Lviv, murdered by the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators, he said in a statement.
Lviv hosts three Euro 2012 Group B games.
Whose hashgacha?
All the Jews should get out of there why stay there go to Israel dont wait for murders to start
I don’t get it- do we honestly believe people are different now than they were 50years ago?! Its the exact same people who outwardly repented cuz they were caught with their pants down in hate. People don’t change, not in the EU, in America, or Germany. Its the same body and mind and the same people who became older, the same hate, and its growing again…
Today you had a few posting of the renewed hatred against in Lviv-Lemberg. Maybe if some of you would get hold of the video Shoah you find these Ukrainians joyfully describing the raping of Jewish girls and women. The killing of Jews and robbing their goods. They are good observant Greek-Catholics and of course never miss a Holy Mass. Ukrainia has a seat in the United Nations.
Ukranians and Lithuanians made Nazis look merciful
It would be a pity if this restaurant had a grease fire in the kitchen that burned the whole pile of filth down.
Just as bad as the Poles.
Bohdan Khmelnytski is Ukraine’s national hero. A monument to him has been erected in the center of Kyiv and a city is named after him. WHat else is new about Ukraine?
Listen friends, we DO haggle. It’s kind of charming in a weird way once you get used to it. Ever go to Machane Yehudah?
Racism has been a key issue in the football world the last few days and just yesterday the Dutch football team were subject to monkey noises. Families of black English players aren’t travelling to Ukraine for fears of racism.
In the end, they can have their anti-Semitic themed restaurants and live like the ignorant peasants they are while our people outperform them by every metric with which a community can be adjudged.
Sure, go visit…if they want to pretend to be Nazis why not pretend to be Jewish underground and ambush the restaurant!