Full Description
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.
Contents
Note on Place Names
Note on Transliteration
PART I: JEWS AND UKRAINIANS
Introduction
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony Polonsky
The First Jews of Ukraine
Dan Shapira
Jews of Lviv and the City Council in the Early Modern Period
Myron Kapral
Christian Anti-Judaism and Jewish-Orthodox Relations among the East Slavs up to 1569
Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath
Jews, Orthodox, and Uniates in Ruthenian Lands
Judith Kalik
Jews in Russian Travel Narratives of the Early Nineteenth Century
Taras Koznarsky
Between Nation and Class: Natalia Kobrynska's Jewish Characters
Amelia Glaser
The Jewish Formations of Western Ukraine during the Civil War
Yaroslav Tynchenko
Jewish Themes in Volodymyr Vynnychenko's Writing
Mykola Iv. Soroka
The 'Jewish Question' in the Ukrainian Nationalist Discourse of the Inter-War Period
Taras Kurylo
Breaking Taboos: The Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukrainian-Jewish Relations
Myroslav Shkandrij
The Ukrainian Nationalist Movement and the Jews: Theoretical Reflections on Nationalism, Fascism, Rationality, Primordialism, and History
Alexander J. Motyl
The Ukrainian Free University and the Jews
Nicolas Szafowal
Imported Violence: Carpatho-Ruthenians and Jews in Carpatho-Ukraine, October 1938-March 1939
Raz Segal
Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and the Holocaust
John-Paul Himka
We Did Not Recognize Our Country: The Rise of Antisemitism in Ukraine before and after the Second World War, 1937-1947
Victoria Khiterer
On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Murders in Baby Yar
Ivan Dzyuba
Reminiscences About Friends
Yury (Arye) Vudka
Grains of Ukrainian-Israeli 'Solidarity'
Yevhen Sverstyuk
Ukrainian-Jewish Relations: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective
HOWARD ASTER and PETER J. POTICHNYJ
Yiddish: Identity and Language Politics in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Jewish Community
Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin
'A City Not Forgotten: Memories of Jewish Lwów and the Holocaust'
An Exhibition at the Galician Jewish Museum, Kraków, June 2010-January 2011
Jakub Nowakowski
Eight Jews in Search of a Grandfather
Mykola Ryabchuk
A Note on the Names of the Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv
Sergey Kravtsov
PART II: NEW VIEWS
The Vagaries of British Compassion: Britons, Poles, and Jews after the First World War
Russell Wallis
The Merry-Go-Round on Krasiński Square: Did 'the happy throngs laugh'? The Debate Regarding the Attitude of Warsaw's Inhabitants towards the Ghetto Uprising
Tomasz Szarota
Personal Accounts of the War by Polish Writers in Occupied Warsaw: The Case of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Obituary
Józef Życiński by Monika Rice
Glossary
Notes on the Contributors
Index
