Table of 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

About the Author

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'. Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian of the Global Educational Outreach Project at the Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014), and in 2011 was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania. His many publications include The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), which in 2012 was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years.