Public Lecture: "What Ukrainians and Jews Know and What They Do Not Know about One Another”

There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and that ordinary Jews do not know about Ukrainians. As a result, those Jews and Ukrainians who may care about their respective ancestral heritages usually view each other through distorted stereotypes, misperceptions, and biases.

In this talk, Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, The Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, sheds new light on highly controversial moments of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and argues that the historical experience in Ukraine not only divided ethnic Ukrainians and Jews but also brought them together. 

The public lecture is the first of two events being held in conjunction with the publication of Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence co-authored by Professor Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Toronto) and Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University), and published by University of Toronto Press. It is co-sponsored by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies, the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies, the Petro Jacyk Program at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

Event Time: 5:00-7:00 pm