This volume provides a comprehensive and much-needed survey of the
millennium-long history of Jews in the Ukrainian lands. The book
challenges the stereotyped vision of the relationship between Jews
and Ukrainians and offers in-depth studies of key periods and
issues. The survey opens with a consideration of early Jewish
settlements and the local reactions to these. The focus then moves
to the period after 1569, when control of the fertile lands of
Ukraine passed to the Polish nobility. Because it was largely Jews
in the service of the nobility who administered these lands, they
were inevitably caught up in the resentment that Polish rule
provoked among the local population, and, above all, among the
Cossacks and peasant-serfs. This resentment culminated in the great
revolt led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the mid-17th century, in
consequence of which the Jews were excluded from that part of
Ukraine which eventually came under Russian rule when the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned. The Jewish response
to the establishment of Russian and Austrian rule in the areas of
Ukraine that had formerly been in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth is a second major theme of the book, and particularly
the Jewish reaction to the emergence of Ukrainian nationalism and
the subsequent Ukrainian struggle for independence. A third
overarching theme is the impact of the sovietization of Ukraine on
Jewish-Ukrainian relations, with a chapter devoted to the 1932-33
Famine (Holodomor) in which millions perished. The book also gives
special attention to the growing rift between Jews and Ukrainians
triggered by the rise of radical nationalism among Ukrainians
living outside the Soviet Union and by conflicting views of
Germany's genocidal plans regarding the Jews during World War II.
With contributions from leading Jewish and Ukrainian scholars on
these complex and highly controversial topics, the book places
Jewish-Ukrainian relations in a broader historical context and adds
to the growing literature that seeks to go beyond the old paradigms
of conflict and hostility. CONTRIBUTORS: Howard Aster, formerly
taught Political Science, McMaster University; Rachel Feldhay
Brenner, Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish
Studies and Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, University of
Wisconsin-Madison; Ivan Dzyuba, Ukrainian writer and literary
critic; member, National Academy of Science of Ukraine; former
Ukrainian Minister of Culture; Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor
of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of California,
San Diego; John-Paul Himka, Professor, Department of History,
University of Alberta; Judith Kalik, teaches East European History,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Myron Kapral, Director, Lviv
Branch, Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source
Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Vladimir (Ze'ev)
Khanin, Chief Adviser on Research and Strategic Planning, Ministry
of Absorption, Israel; Victoria Khiterer, Assistant Professor of
History and Director, Conference on the Hilocaust and Genocide,
Millersville University, Pennsylvania; Taras Koznarsky, Associate
Professor, University of Toronto Sergey R. Kravtsov, Research
Fellow, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
Taras Kurylo, independent scholar, Calgary; Alexander J. Motyl,
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark; Jakub
Nowakowski, Director, Galicia Jewish Museum, Krakow; Alexander
Pereswetoff-Morath, Associate Professor and Academy Research
Fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities,
Stockholm; Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Crown Family Professor of
Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History, Northwestern
University; Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust
Studies, Brandeis University and United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum; Peter J. Potichnyj, Honorary Professor, East China
University, Shanghai and Lviv Polytechnic National University;
Professor Emeritus, McMaster University; Mykola Ryabchuk, Ukrainian
writer and journalist; Vice President, Ukrainian PEN-Club; Raz
Segal, doctoral student, Strassler Center for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, Clark University; teaching fellow, International
MA Program in Holocaust Studies, Haifa University; Dan Shapira,
Professor of Ottoman Studies and Professor of the History and
Culture of Eastern European Jewry, Bar-Ilan University; Myroslav
Shkandrij, Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba;
Mykola Iv. Soroka, Advancement Manager, Canadian Institute of
Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta; Yevhen Sverstyuk,
theologian, translator, journalist, and literary critic; Chief
Editor, Nas.
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