{"id":12497,"date":"2018-12-13T21:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=12497"},"modified":"2018-12-13T21:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:34:01","slug":"jewish-life-in-rivne-explored-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/jewish-life-in-rivne-explored-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish life in Rivne explored in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maxim Hon (left); Andriy Pavlychyn (second left); and Ivan Monolatii after the presentation of Hon\u2019s new book at the 25 Book Forum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Numerous books and monographs have appeared in recent years describing the rich lives of the Jewish communities that inhabited the territory of contemporary Ukraine prior to World War II. Now Ukrainian historian Maxim Hon has penned the story of Rivne\u2019s Jews, adding to a greater understanding of the country\u2019s historic ethnic mosaic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to return to history those people who were lost to history,\u201d Hon said at a presentation of his book, Rivne: Outlines of the Missing City<\/em>, held at Lviv\u2019s 25 Book Forum this fall.<\/p>\n

Hon is head of the department of political studies at the Rivne State Humanitarian University and director of the non-profit organization Mnemonics<\/a>, dedicated to memory policy in Ukraine. He is a specialist on Ukrainian-Jewish relations during the interwar period and World War II.<\/p>\n

With Rivne\u2019s history as a backdrop, Hon\u2019s book tells the story of Rivne\u2019s Jewish community through personalities who participated in the city\u2019s civic, political and economic life; its important benefactors; and various aspects of inter-ethnic relations. Hon has won wide-spread praise for writing a book easily accessible to the average reader.<\/p>\n

Ivan Monolatii, a professor at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University who participated in the presentation, said it is important that books which explore Ukraine\u2019s ethnic communities are finally being published. The question of historical memory has too often been geared toward ethnic Ukrainians, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dilemma of minorities is a question,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cUkraine is polyethnic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although more needs to be done, participants underscored that publications like Hon\u2019s show Ukrainian historiography is beginning to slowly change. The country is returning to the past and realizing what has been lost.<\/p>\n

Presentation of <\/strong>Rivne: Outlines of the Missing City<\/em><\/strong> by Maxim Hon, 25 Book Forum, Lviv, Ukraine, 19 September 2018. <\/strong>(in Ukrainian)<\/span><\/p>\n