“Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”, “Beit Chana” International Humanitarian and Pedagogical Institute in the initiative of Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter offer course of lectures “JEWS AND UKRAINIANS: A MILLENNIUM OF CO-EXISTENCE. 1917-2017” by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Professor of Jewish History at Northwestern University (Chicago, USA).
The course will last from September 3th to 14th, 2018 and will include 8 lectures (2 classes every academic day); after successful completion of the course students will be awarded with an official certificate.
This course considers Ukrainian-Jewish relations—and the history and culture of the Jews in Ukrainian lands—as an inseparable part of Ukrainian history and as a dynamic phenomenon which should be placed in the broad context of Ukrainian history. Jews and Ukrainians have been two subaltern groups, two colonized minorities (with complex and incongruent relations with their colonizers) that have a set of socio-cultural similarities which allow to ponder them in a comparative framework. This is the innovative approach reconsiders and reevaluates in a new light many hot issues in the Ukrainian Jewish history. The focus will be primarily on the cultural, economic, political and artistic interaction of Jews and Ukrainians (above-all, ethnic Ukrainians) in the lands of Ukraine right after the February, 1917, Revolution in Russia and the collapse of the Russian Empire. During the interactive sessions based on an in-depth discussion of primary sources (in English translation and in the original), the participants will learn about the relations between the leaders of the Jewish national-democratic parties and the Ukrainian national-democrats in Ukrainian People’s Republic and Western Ukrainian People’s Republic. Students will discuss howkorenizatsia brought Jews into Ukrainian culture and created unheard-of forms of Ukrainian-Jewish encounter and how the right-wing turn of the USSR in 1930s disrupted this process. Students will dwell on complex issues of the Holocaust and collaboration, discuss the participation of the SS, Wermacht, Hilfspolizei and other units in the destruction of East European Jews, will debate the issue of by-standers and those who provided shelter to the Jews, as well as the post-war retribution to the Holocaust perpetrators. Participants will ponder the post-war state-orchestrated antisemitic campaigns in the USSR. Special attention will be addressed to Ukrainian and Jewish dissident and human rights groups and the formation of a brand-new conceptualization of Ukraine and its ethnic minorities, Jews to begin with, among leading Ukrainian thinkers. This course may serve a fundamental basis for the understanding of the complex relations of Ukrainian with various ethnicities inhabiting Ukraine in modern times, first and foremost, the Jews.
The course is designed for students, undergraduates, graduate students, doctoral students, teachers and anyone interested in the history of Jews, culture and history of Ukraine.
We offer two mini-grants to cover accommodation and meals during the course for students from other cities.
The lectures will be delivered in Ukrainian at “Tkuma” Institute (4/26, Sholom Aleichem Street, “Menorah” Center, Dnipro).
Requirements for participants: regular attendance of lectures, short written assignments and mini-course work.
If you want to join the event, please fill online form at: http://tkuma.dp.ua/ua/obrazovanie/reiestratsiia-na-osvitnii-kurs by August 15, 2018.
Number of participants is limited!
Students from other cities who wish to receive a grant must send CV and motivation letter.