Description: A comprehensive survey of the millennium-long history of Jews in the Ukraine sets out the background to issues that have generated much conflict. With in-depth contributions from Jewish and Ukrainian scholars and other experts on these complex and highly controversial topics, the volume attempts to provide a broader historical context that can move the discussion beyond the old paradigms of conflict and hostility.
Brief description: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a professor of Jewish history at Northwestern University. He teaches early modern and modern east European Jewish history; Jewish mysticism and kabbalah; the history and culture of Ukraine; and Slavonic Jewish literature. He has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe, a fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He has published several books, including Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity (2008), The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew (2009), winner of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies book award, and Lenin's Jewish Question (2010). He has recently finished, The Golden-Age Shtetl, and together with Paul Robert Magocsi is working on a study entitled 'Jews and Ukrainians in the Ukrainian Lands'.