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 ""Yatsenyuk is of partly Romanian ancestry, with one of his grandparents being an ethnic Romanian from the region around Chernivtsi and citizen of Greater Romania.  
    	  	  
 :Yatsenuk's website states he was born into a family of ethnic Ukrainians. Some academic sources state he was born tо a family of ethnic Jewish-Ukrainians. An article by Harriet Salem in The Guardian states that he “has played down his Jewish-Ukrainian origins, possibly because of the prevalence of antisemitism in his party's western Ukraine heartland.” Official website of the ""Front for Change"" - Arseniy Yatsenyuk Family Tree Official website of Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Arseniy Yatsenyuk Family Tree  On the other hand, Yaakov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, responding to slurs such as ""impudent Jew"" and ""thieving Jew"" made against Yatsenyuk during the latter's 2010 presidential election campaing, stated, “Arseniy Yatsenyuk is not Jewish.” Ukrainian Jews want mayor charged for slurs, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (August 10, 2009) Further, Anna Rudnitskaya writing on the same presidential election in The Jewish Week asserted, “[Yatsenyuk’s] hypothetical Jewishness was never established.”  ('Would also need further tweaking rel placement of the cites, and IMO discussion of Kuzio and mention by name w/b also warranted.  IMO Kuzio is the most credible source brought up so far after the rabbi, which is not to say very credible.)    

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