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Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 292 pp.

While many works have been published on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides, their a... more While many works have been published on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides, their aftermath and impact on society still require further research and discussion in scholarly literature. This book illuminates unknown aspects of the aftermath of the Holocaust and genocides, and discusses trials of Holocaust and genocide perpetrators, commemoration of the victims, attempts to revive Jewish national life, and outbreaks of post-World War II anti-Semitism. It also analyzes the representation of the Holocaust and genocides in literature, press and film. The volume includes thirteen articles, which are based on recently discovered archival materials, and provides new approaches to the research of the Armenian genocide, the Holodomor, ethnic cleansing and the Holocaust.

More Info: Hardback, ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-4740-7; ISBN-10: 1-5275-4740-X
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/aftermath-of-the-holocaust-and-genocides

Paperback edition, 2023. ISBN: 1-5275-9544-7; ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9544-6.
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-4740-7

Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 240 pp.

This book brings together eleven essays that analyze different aspects of resistance to the Holoc... more This book brings together eleven essays that analyze different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms: armed and passive resistance, uprisings in ghettos and concentration camps, partisan and underground movements, the rescue of Jews, spiritual resistance, and preservation of Jewish artifacts and memories. Jewish resistance to the Holocaust faced numerous obstacles and difficulties. In many cases, resistance fighters risked not only their own lives, but also the lives of others. As such, there was a serious dilemma over whether to resist and over what methods of resistance should be used, because armed resistance could further harm the civilian population. The effort to resist was not in vain, however, regardless of whether the resistance participants survived or perished. To these fighters, resistance was seen as a moral victory over the Nazi regime.The authors analyze resistance to the Nazi regime in Europe and America, and motivations of the American and Soviet Jewish soldiers to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II. The essays discuss strategies for Jewish survival, and armed and passive resistance in ghettos and concentration camps. The essays describe resistance to Holocaust denial, and difficulties in the preservation of memories about the Holocaust in Germany, Belarus and Ukraine. Several essays focus on the challenges which arise in the representation of Holocaust resistance in film and literature. This collection of essays significantly contributes to our understanding of resistance to the Holocaust, as well as its dilemmas and difficulties.

Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016), 492 pp.

This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revol... more This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city. Praise for Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?: " Kiev, the crown jewel of Russian Christendom, was the unexpected home of a vibrant, deep-rooted, but vulnerable Jewish community. While other scholars hone in on pogroms and anti-Semitism, Professor Khiterer expands the horizon. She tells us about Jewish social life, economics, politics, education, culture and religion. This powerful monograph gives the reader the Jewish world of Kiev with panoramic thoroughness. It will be the authoritative text for decades. " — Brian Horowitz, Sizeler Family Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University " Kiev lay in the heart of the Jewish Pale of Settlement but until the revolution of February 1917 only restricted numbers of privileged Jews had the legal right to settle there. Nevertheless, the town also became a magnet for the impoverished Jewish masses seeking to escape the poverty of shtetl life. This compelling and well-researched monograph highlights the dual character of the town for its Jewish inhabitants—on the one hand the home of a well-established and culturally productive Jewish community, on the other the scene of constant persecution and expulsion. It is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of Jewish life in the Tsarist Empire and in the modern world. "

Jewish Pogroms in Kiev during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 (Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015), 120 pp.

POWER CHANGED HANDS IN KIEV fourteen times during the revolution and civil war (1917–1920). Many ... more POWER CHANGED HANDS IN KIEV fourteen times during the revolution and civil war (1917–1920). Many of these changes of power were accompanied by anti-Jewish violence. The pogroms were committed by the Ukrainian and White armies, as well as the Polish occupation forces. I discuss in my book when and how this anti-Jewish violence began. Why were troops with such different ideologies so similar in their hatred of Jews and their justification for Jewish pogroms? Why could the large Kiev Jewish community not defend itself? What impact did the pogroms have on the Jewish population and on their perpetrators? My work also raises important questions of the responsibility of the civil and military authorities for Jewish pogroms in Kiev and Ukraine during the civil war. It rebuts the theory that these pogroms occurred spontaneously and could not have been prevented, demonstrating that most of them were the result of antisemitic propaganda spread by official mass media as well as the deliberate exploitation of antisemitism for political purposes by various political forces during the civil war.

The Holocaust: Memories and History. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 415 pp.

This book is a collection of seventeen scholarly articles which analyze Holocaust testimonies, ph... more This book is a collection of seventeen scholarly articles which analyze Holocaust testimonies, photographs, documents, literature and films, as well as teaching methods in Holocaust education. Most of these essays were originally presented as papers at the Millersville University Conferences on the Holocaust and Genocide from 2010 to 2012. In their articles, the contributors discuss the Holocaust in concentration camps and ghettos, as well as the Nazis’ methods of exterminating Jews. The authors analyze the reliability of photographic evidence and eyewitness testimonies about the Holocaust. The essays also describe the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors, witnesses and perpetrators, and upon Jewish identity in general after the Second World War. The scholars explore the problems of the memorialization of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and the description of the Holocaust in Russian literature. Several essays are devoted to the representation of the Holocaust in film, and trace the evolution of its depiction from the early Holocaust movies of the late 1940s – early 1950s to modern Holocaust fantasy films. They also show the influence of Holocaust cinema on feature films about the Armenian Genocide. Lastly, several authors propose innovative methods of teaching the Holocaust to college students. The younger generation of students may see the Holocaust as an event of the distant past, so new teaching methods are needed to explain its significance. This collection of essays, based on new multi-disciplinary research and innovative methods of teaching, opens many unknown aspects and provides new perspectives on the Holocaust

Dokumenty po evreiskoi istorii XVI-XX vekov v kievskikh arkhivakh. [Jewish Documents in Kiev's Archives, (Sixteenth – Twentieth Century)]. (Moscow, Kiev: Gesharim Publishing House and Institute of Jewish Studies, 2001), 223 pp.

Dokumenty, sobrannye Evreiskoi Istoriko-arheographicheskoi komissiei Vseukrainskoi Akademii Nauk. [Collection of Documents of the Historical- Archaeographical Commission]. (Jerusalem, Kiev: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gesharim Publishing House, 1999), 299 pp.

Papers by Victoria Khiterer

Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s-1930s

Jews and Urban Life, 2023

Kyiv was one of the two largest centers of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union in the interwar pe... more

Jewish Education in the Ukrainian People’s Republic

“Jewish Education in the Ukrainian People’s Republic,” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Volume 38, no. 3–4 (2021): 271-295, 2021

In the Shadow of Babyn Yar: Anatoly Kuznetsov's Eyewitness Account of the Betrayal and Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Kyiv

Eastern European Holocaust Studies , 2023

The article explores the motivation for betrayal and rescue of Jews during the Nazi occupation of... more The article explores the motivation for betrayal and rescue of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. Unfortunately, significantly more gentiles betrayed Jews during the occupation of the city than rescued them. The motivations for betrayal varied: traditional anti-Semitism reinforced by Nazi propaganda, some gentiles desired to enrich themselves on the account of Jewish property, to occupy Jewish apartments and to demonstrate their loyalty to the Nazis. Betrayal of Jews was encouraged and rewarded by the Nazis, while rescue of Jews put under mortal risk the gentiles who helped them. Only a few hundred Jews survived in Kyiv during the occupation. Some of them lived under bogus identities, which listed their nationality as Russians or Ukrainians. Others were hidden by their friends, neighbors and gentile spouses. In several cases Jewish children were adopted by gentile families. The article is based on scholarly and memoir literature, and archival materials. Anatoly Kuznetsov provided the most complete eyewitness account of the Nazi occupation of Kyiv and the Babyn Yar massacre in his book Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel, which is one of the main sources for the article.

Unwelcome Return Home: Jews, Anti-Semitism and the Housing Problem in Post-War Kyiv

Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 2022

The article discusses the aftermath of the Holocaust in Kyiv and shows what factors contributed t... more The article discusses the aftermath of the Holocaust in Kyiv and shows what factors contributed to the sharp rise of state and popular anti-Semitism in the city in the postwar years. During the Nazi occupation, Babyn Yar in Kyiv became one of the largest Holocaust killing grounds, where the Nazis and their local collaborators exterminated almost all Jews who remained in the city. When surviving Jews returned to Kyiv from evacuation and the fronts, gentiles frequently refused to hand over apartments to the prewar occupants. Jewish appeals to the authorities often were denied. The authorities, many of whom shared the anti-Semitic mood of much of the local population, usually refused to help returning Jews claim their property. A Jewish pogrom broke out in Kyiv in September 1945, when sixteen Jews were killed and over 100 injured. The harshness of life in the ruined city, the severe shortage of apartments and the rise of the anti-Semitism overlapped in Kyiv and brought about an explosion of anti-Jewish violence in the city. The Soviet authorities attempted to suppress popular anti-Semitism in Ukraine after the war but failed. Then they adopted the policy of state anti-Semitism in 1948-1953.

Kyiv’s Jews, persecuted under Polish-Lithuanian, Russian, Nazi and Soviet regimes, now face the onslaught of Putin’s forces

The Conversation, 2022

https://theconversation.com/kyivs-jews-persecuted-under-polish-lithuanian-russian-nazi-and-soviet... more

“Not so Silent: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Kiev, 1945-1970s,” in Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed., "Authorities and Dissent in Jewish Life. Studies in Jewish Civilization," Vol. 31 (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2020), 131-146.

“Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center: What is Wrong with the Critiques of the Future Memorial?,” "Ukrains’ka Pravda," August 18, 2020 (in Ukrainian); "Gordon," August 21, 2021 (in Russian).

"Ukrains’ka Pravda," August 18, 2020

The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine: An Introduction and Observations on a Neglected Topic

Nationalities Papers, 48, no. 3 , 2020

The Holodomor in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 was a result of the collectivization policy of the Sov... more The Holodomor in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 was a result of the collectivization policy of the Soviet government and took approximately 4 million lives. The Holodomor had a profound impact on the entire population of Ukraine. It badly affected the lives of Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine, and it damaged Jewish-gentile relations for many years. The famine occurred not only in rural areas, but also in the cities and towns of Ukraine. The Holodomor provoked a significant migration of Jews from shtetls to the large cities, particularly to Kyiv. Many desperate inhabitants of villages and towns fled to the large cities where they hoped to receive some aid. However, the overcrowded cities could not accommodate this flood of migrants. Anatolii Kuznetsov wrote in Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel that if not for the Holodomor in Ukraine and Stalin's repressions of the 1930s, the attitude of the Kyiv gentile population toward the Holocaust would perhaps have been different. People had gotten so used to the suffering of others, victims of the famine and political repression, that they remained mainly passive, silent, and indifferent toward the mass execution of Jews in Babi Yar during the Holocaust.

“Life in the Ruins: Jewish National Revival in Kiev after the Holocaust (1944-48),” in Victoria Khiterer and Erin Magee, eds. "Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides" (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 2-37.

Tsaddiks Tversky, In "Dokumenty, sobrannye Evreiskoi Istoriko-arheographicheskoi komissiei Vseukrainskoi Akademii Nauk" (Jerusalem, Kiev: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gesharim Publishing House, 1999), 273-289.

"Collection of Documents of the Historical- Archaeographical Commission of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences", 1999

“How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 30 (2018): 155-179

“Seekers of Happiness: Jews and Jazz in the Soviet Union,” Kultura Popularna, 1, no. 51 (2017): 26-50.

Strategies for Jewish Survival in Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps

by Martin Dean and Victoria Khiterer

Martin Dean, "Strategies for Jewish Survival in Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps" in: Holocaust Res... more

Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 292 pp.

While many works have been published on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides, their a... more While many works have been published on different aspects of the Holocaust and genocides, their aftermath and impact on society still require further research and discussion in scholarly literature. This book illuminates unknown aspects of the aftermath of the Holocaust and genocides, and discusses trials of Holocaust and genocide perpetrators, commemoration of the victims, attempts to revive Jewish national life, and outbreaks of post-World War II anti-Semitism. It also analyzes the representation of the Holocaust and genocides in literature, press and film. The volume includes thirteen articles, which are based on recently discovered archival materials, and provides new approaches to the research of the Armenian genocide, the Holodomor, ethnic cleansing and the Holocaust.

More Info: Hardback, ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-4740-7; ISBN-10: 1-5275-4740-X
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/aftermath-of-the-holocaust-and-genocides

Paperback edition, 2023. ISBN: 1-5275-9544-7; ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9544-6.
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-4740-7

Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 240 pp.

This book brings together eleven essays that analyze different aspects of resistance to the Holoc... more This book brings together eleven essays that analyze different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms: armed and passive resistance, uprisings in ghettos and concentration camps, partisan and underground movements, the rescue of Jews, spiritual resistance, and preservation of Jewish artifacts and memories. Jewish resistance to the Holocaust faced numerous obstacles and difficulties. In many cases, resistance fighters risked not only their own lives, but also the lives of others. As such, there was a serious dilemma over whether to resist and over what methods of resistance should be used, because armed resistance could further harm the civilian population. The effort to resist was not in vain, however, regardless of whether the resistance participants survived or perished. To these fighters, resistance was seen as a moral victory over the Nazi regime.The authors analyze resistance to the Nazi regime in Europe and America, and motivations of the American and Soviet Jewish soldiers to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II. The essays discuss strategies for Jewish survival, and armed and passive resistance in ghettos and concentration camps. The essays describe resistance to Holocaust denial, and difficulties in the preservation of memories about the Holocaust in Germany, Belarus and Ukraine. Several essays focus on the challenges which arise in the representation of Holocaust resistance in film and literature. This collection of essays significantly contributes to our understanding of resistance to the Holocaust, as well as its dilemmas and difficulties.

Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016), 492 pp.

This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revol... more This book describes the history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. This book illuminates the major processes and events in Kievan Jewish history, including the creation of the Jewish community, the expulsions of Jews from the city, government persecution and Jewish pogroms, the Beilis Affair, the participation of Jews in the political, economic, and cultural life of Kiev, and their contribution to the development of the city. Praise for Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?: " Kiev, the crown jewel of Russian Christendom, was the unexpected home of a vibrant, deep-rooted, but vulnerable Jewish community. While other scholars hone in on pogroms and anti-Semitism, Professor Khiterer expands the horizon. She tells us about Jewish social life, economics, politics, education, culture and religion. This powerful monograph gives the reader the Jewish world of Kiev with panoramic thoroughness. It will be the authoritative text for decades. " — Brian Horowitz, Sizeler Family Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University " Kiev lay in the heart of the Jewish Pale of Settlement but until the revolution of February 1917 only restricted numbers of privileged Jews had the legal right to settle there. Nevertheless, the town also became a magnet for the impoverished Jewish masses seeking to escape the poverty of shtetl life. This compelling and well-researched monograph highlights the dual character of the town for its Jewish inhabitants—on the one hand the home of a well-established and culturally productive Jewish community, on the other the scene of constant persecution and expulsion. It is essential reading for all those interested in the evolution of Jewish life in the Tsarist Empire and in the modern world. "

Jewish Pogroms in Kiev during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 (Lewiston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015), 120 pp.

POWER CHANGED HANDS IN KIEV fourteen times during the revolution and civil war (1917–1920). Many ... more POWER CHANGED HANDS IN KIEV fourteen times during the revolution and civil war (1917–1920). Many of these changes of power were accompanied by anti-Jewish violence. The pogroms were committed by the Ukrainian and White armies, as well as the Polish occupation forces. I discuss in my book when and how this anti-Jewish violence began. Why were troops with such different ideologies so similar in their hatred of Jews and their justification for Jewish pogroms? Why could the large Kiev Jewish community not defend itself? What impact did the pogroms have on the Jewish population and on their perpetrators? My work also raises important questions of the responsibility of the civil and military authorities for Jewish pogroms in Kiev and Ukraine during the civil war. It rebuts the theory that these pogroms occurred spontaneously and could not have been prevented, demonstrating that most of them were the result of antisemitic propaganda spread by official mass media as well as the deliberate exploitation of antisemitism for political purposes by various political forces during the civil war.

The Holocaust: Memories and History. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 415 pp.

This book is a collection of seventeen scholarly articles which analyze Holocaust testimonies, ph... more This book is a collection of seventeen scholarly articles which analyze Holocaust testimonies, photographs, documents, literature and films, as well as teaching methods in Holocaust education. Most of these essays were originally presented as papers at the Millersville University Conferences on the Holocaust and Genocide from 2010 to 2012. In their articles, the contributors discuss the Holocaust in concentration camps and ghettos, as well as the Nazis’ methods of exterminating Jews. The authors analyze the reliability of photographic evidence and eyewitness testimonies about the Holocaust. The essays also describe the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors, witnesses and perpetrators, and upon Jewish identity in general after the Second World War. The scholars explore the problems of the memorialization of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and the description of the Holocaust in Russian literature. Several essays are devoted to the representation of the Holocaust in film, and trace the evolution of its depiction from the early Holocaust movies of the late 1940s – early 1950s to modern Holocaust fantasy films. They also show the influence of Holocaust cinema on feature films about the Armenian Genocide. Lastly, several authors propose innovative methods of teaching the Holocaust to college students. The younger generation of students may see the Holocaust as an event of the distant past, so new teaching methods are needed to explain its significance. This collection of essays, based on new multi-disciplinary research and innovative methods of teaching, opens many unknown aspects and provides new perspectives on the Holocaust

Dokumenty po evreiskoi istorii XVI-XX vekov v kievskikh arkhivakh. [Jewish Documents in Kiev's Archives, (Sixteenth – Twentieth Century)]. (Moscow, Kiev: Gesharim Publishing House and Institute of Jewish Studies, 2001), 223 pp.

Dokumenty, sobrannye Evreiskoi Istoriko-arheographicheskoi komissiei Vseukrainskoi Akademii Nauk. [Collection of Documents of the Historical- Archaeographical Commission]. (Jerusalem, Kiev: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gesharim Publishing House, 1999), 299 pp.

Kyiv as a Center of Soviet Jewish Culture in the 1920s-1930s

Jews and Urban Life, 2023

Kyiv was one of the two largest centers of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union in the interwar pe... more

Jewish Education in the Ukrainian People’s Republic

“Jewish Education in the Ukrainian People’s Republic,” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Volume 38, no. 3–4 (2021): 271-295, 2021

In the Shadow of Babyn Yar: Anatoly Kuznetsov's Eyewitness Account of the Betrayal and Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Kyiv

Eastern European Holocaust Studies , 2023

The article explores the motivation for betrayal and rescue of Jews during the Nazi occupation of... more The article explores the motivation for betrayal and rescue of Jews during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv. Unfortunately, significantly more gentiles betrayed Jews during the occupation of the city than rescued them. The motivations for betrayal varied: traditional anti-Semitism reinforced by Nazi propaganda, some gentiles desired to enrich themselves on the account of Jewish property, to occupy Jewish apartments and to demonstrate their loyalty to the Nazis. Betrayal of Jews was encouraged and rewarded by the Nazis, while rescue of Jews put under mortal risk the gentiles who helped them. Only a few hundred Jews survived in Kyiv during the occupation. Some of them lived under bogus identities, which listed their nationality as Russians or Ukrainians. Others were hidden by their friends, neighbors and gentile spouses. In several cases Jewish children were adopted by gentile families. The article is based on scholarly and memoir literature, and archival materials. Anatoly Kuznetsov provided the most complete eyewitness account of the Nazi occupation of Kyiv and the Babyn Yar massacre in his book Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel, which is one of the main sources for the article.

Unwelcome Return Home: Jews, Anti-Semitism and the Housing Problem in Post-War Kyiv

Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 2022

The article discusses the aftermath of the Holocaust in Kyiv and shows what factors contributed t... more The article discusses the aftermath of the Holocaust in Kyiv and shows what factors contributed to the sharp rise of state and popular anti-Semitism in the city in the postwar years. During the Nazi occupation, Babyn Yar in Kyiv became one of the largest Holocaust killing grounds, where the Nazis and their local collaborators exterminated almost all Jews who remained in the city. When surviving Jews returned to Kyiv from evacuation and the fronts, gentiles frequently refused to hand over apartments to the prewar occupants. Jewish appeals to the authorities often were denied. The authorities, many of whom shared the anti-Semitic mood of much of the local population, usually refused to help returning Jews claim their property. A Jewish pogrom broke out in Kyiv in September 1945, when sixteen Jews were killed and over 100 injured. The harshness of life in the ruined city, the severe shortage of apartments and the rise of the anti-Semitism overlapped in Kyiv and brought about an explosion of anti-Jewish violence in the city. The Soviet authorities attempted to suppress popular anti-Semitism in Ukraine after the war but failed. Then they adopted the policy of state anti-Semitism in 1948-1953.

Kyiv’s Jews, persecuted under Polish-Lithuanian, Russian, Nazi and Soviet regimes, now face the onslaught of Putin’s forces

The Conversation, 2022

https://theconversation.com/kyivs-jews-persecuted-under-polish-lithuanian-russian-nazi-and-soviet... more

“Not so Silent: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Kiev, 1945-1970s,” in Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed., "Authorities and Dissent in Jewish Life. Studies in Jewish Civilization," Vol. 31 (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 2020), 131-146.

“Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center: What is Wrong with the Critiques of the Future Memorial?,” "Ukrains’ka Pravda," August 18, 2020 (in Ukrainian); "Gordon," August 21, 2021 (in Russian).

"Ukrains’ka Pravda," August 18, 2020

The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine: An Introduction and Observations on a Neglected Topic

Nationalities Papers, 48, no. 3 , 2020

The Holodomor in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 was a result of the collectivization policy of the Sov... more The Holodomor in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 was a result of the collectivization policy of the Soviet government and took approximately 4 million lives. The Holodomor had a profound impact on the entire population of Ukraine. It badly affected the lives of Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine, and it damaged Jewish-gentile relations for many years. The famine occurred not only in rural areas, but also in the cities and towns of Ukraine. The Holodomor provoked a significant migration of Jews from shtetls to the large cities, particularly to Kyiv. Many desperate inhabitants of villages and towns fled to the large cities where they hoped to receive some aid. However, the overcrowded cities could not accommodate this flood of migrants. Anatolii Kuznetsov wrote in Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel that if not for the Holodomor in Ukraine and Stalin's repressions of the 1930s, the attitude of the Kyiv gentile population toward the Holocaust would perhaps have been different. People had gotten so used to the suffering of others, victims of the famine and political repression, that they remained mainly passive, silent, and indifferent toward the mass execution of Jews in Babi Yar during the Holocaust.

“Life in the Ruins: Jewish National Revival in Kiev after the Holocaust (1944-48),” in Victoria Khiterer and Erin Magee, eds. "Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides" (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 2-37.

Tsaddiks Tversky, In "Dokumenty, sobrannye Evreiskoi Istoriko-arheographicheskoi komissiei Vseukrainskoi Akademii Nauk" (Jerusalem, Kiev: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gesharim Publishing House, 1999), 273-289.

"Collection of Documents of the Historical- Archaeographical Commission of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences", 1999

“How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 30 (2018): 155-179

“Seekers of Happiness: Jews and Jazz in the Soviet Union,” Kultura Popularna, 1, no. 51 (2017): 26-50.

Strategies for Jewish Survival in Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps

by Martin Dean and Victoria Khiterer

Martin Dean, "Strategies for Jewish Survival in Ghettos and Forced Labor Camps" in: Holocaust Res... more

“Memorialization of the Holocaust in Minsk and Kiev” in Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 95-131.

“Victor Nekrasov and the Babi Yar Massacre Commemoration,” The London Weekly, June 25, 2016

The London Weekly, June 25, 2016, http://www.thelondonweekly.net/index.php?option=com_content&vie... more

"Suppressed Memory: Memorialization of the Holocaust in Babi Yar (Kiev)," Achievements, 09/27/2016.

I analyze in my paper why Soviet authorities resisted construction of a monument to the victims o... more

“The October 1905 Pogroms and the Russian Authorities,” Nationalities Papers. The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 43, no. 5 (2015): 788-803.

Kiev Jews in the Early Twentieth Century: National Identity and Culture, in "Jews and Non-Jews: Memories and Interactions from the Perspective of Cultural Studies," eds. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Jacek Partyka (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Academic Research, 2015), pp. 13-28.

Jews in Soviet Cinema: the Film Commissar by Aleksandr Askol’dov

“We Did Not Recognize Our Country: The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine Before and After World War II (1937-1947),” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 26 (2014), pp. 361-379.

Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds. "Babyn Yar: History and Memory"

Book review of Vladyslav Hrynevych and Paul Robert Magocsi, eds. "Babyn Yar: History and Memory" (University of Toronto Press, 2023), "The Russian Review," 83, no. 3 , 2024

Babyn Yar is the largest Holocaust site in the former Soviet Union and modern Ukraine. However, u... more Babyn Yar is the largest Holocaust site in the former Soviet Union and modern Ukraine. However, until recently the Babyn Yar massacre was under-researched. Discussions about the Holocaust and its commemoration were suppressed in the Soviet Union. Only after the collapse of communism were the first scholarly works published on the topic. "Babyn Yar: History and Memory" is a volume of thirteen essays about the Babyn Yar massacre and its commemoration, written by Ukrainian, Canadian, and Dutch scholars.

Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus

Crispin Brook and Kiril Feferman, ed., Beyond the Pale: The Holocaust in the North Caucasus (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2020), Central European History 55, no. 4 (December 2022): 637-639, 2022

Kiril Feferman, “If We had Wings We Would Fly to You”: A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020), "The Russian Review" 80, no. 2, (April 2021): 340-341.

Omer Bartov, "Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz" (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018), "Nationalities Papers," 48, no. 2 (March 2020): 422-424.

Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann, eds. "Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union" (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2017), "The Russian Review," 77, no. 4 (2018), 670-671.

Lev Berdnikov, "Siluety. Evreiskie pisateli v Rossii XIX – nachala XX v." (Silhouettes. Jewish Writers in Russia in the XIX – beginning of the XX century). Ottawa: Accent Graphics Communications, 2017, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781546986362, "Achievements," 09/23/2018.

Zvi Gitelman, "Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), East European Jewish Affairs, 47, no. 2-3 (2017), 312-314.

Vassili Schedrin, "Jewish Souls, Bureaucratic Minds: Jewish Bureaucracy and Policymaking in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1917" (Wayne State University Press, 2016), Shofar, 35, no. 4 (Summer 2017): 142-145.

Letter to the editor, "Canadian Slavonic Papers," 2017, VOL. 59, NOS. 1–2, 189–191.

Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran, eds. Writing Jewish Culture: Paradoxes in Ethnography. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016) The Russian Review, 76, no. 1 (2017), 180-181.

borrows from Shmuel Eisenstadt the concept of " multiple modernities " as the solution to our con... more borrows from Shmuel Eisenstadt the concept of " multiple modernities " as the solution to our continuing drive to see the Soviet (and sometimes Russian) world in bipolar extremes. I regret that I found the result, however, somewhat disappointing, in large measure because we have seen most of these essays before in some form or another over the course of 1998–2006—only two are published here for the first time. But, more importantly, they feel very dated, with regard to two sets of issues that can be summarized as violence and empire, and their effects. David-Fox's multiple approaches to ideology and multiple modernities have a somewhat detached feel in 2016 because they largely evade at least two important contextual settings for the political-intellectual debates and cross-cultural exchanges that he so skillfully reconstructs, namely the role of violence, coercion, and repression in shaping the lives and careers of the participants in those debates, and the role of empire, colonialism, and postcolonial legacies. On the first issue, all three of the empirical essays (chaps. 5–7) mention the role of the NKVD/ OGPU at various stages of the stories told there, and the author speculates about what we don't know and might not ever know from the archives of the secret police. But from the start of the new ruling party's relationship to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, for example, there were arrests and interrogations of academicians by the Cheka. Foreign travelers to the Soviet Union and their Soviet mediators alike were monitored by the police, in addition to the party cells that were embedded in every important cultural, educational, and research institution. The website Memory of the Gulag makes available almost daily reports of new archives, diaries, and memoirs of not only victims and survivors but also perpetrators and officials. David-Fox's admirably wide reading in German and French scholarship missed the largely German field of sociology of violence associated with Wolfgang Sofsky, one of several possible approaches to understanding the effects of Soviet-type repressive regimes. One does not have to resurrect the hoary totalitarian school or cede Martin Malia's position on the ideocracy to grapple with the question of how coercion and terror shaped different possibilities and limits for those engaged in the production of ideology and culture. The second neglected issue and perspective can be summed up as empire, a field of study that is also in large measure about power and about empires as historic types of organization of power.

Lev Berdnikov, Evrei v tsarskoi Rossii: syny ili pasynki? (Jews in Tsarist Russia: Sons or Stepsons? St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2016), Achievements, September 3, 2016

Simon Rabinovitch, Jewish Rights, National Rites. Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014) The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 44, no. 1 (2016), 191-193

Leonid Smilovitsky, Jewish Life in Belarus: The Final Decade of the Stalin Regime, 1944-1953, (New York: Central European University Press, 2014), https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=43203

Robert Weinberg, Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia. The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis, (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 2014), Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 43, no. 3 (2015)

Yaacov Ro'i, ed. The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union. (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), The Russian Review, 72, no. 2 (2014), pp. 346-348.

Eliyana R. Adler, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011), Journal of Modern Jewish Studies,12:3 (2013): 528-529.

Boterbloem, Kees. A History of Russia and Its Empire: From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin.

Brian Horowitz, Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th and Early 20th-Century Russia. (Bloomington: Slavica Publishers, Indiana University, 2009), The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928, 5 (2011), pp. 69-73.

Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-1914. (Indiana University Press, 2010).

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2011

Michael Mitsel, The Jewish Religious Communal Organizations in Kiev and Lvov, 1945-1981. (Kiev, 1998). Jews in Eastern Europe, 42, no. 2 (2000), pp. 96-99.

The 35th Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, April 11-13, 2018

Conference Theme: Holocaust and Genocide Trials. The conference is free and open to the public... more

“The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv” presented to the 22nd Annual ASN World Convention, Columbia University, May 4-6, 2017

This presentation is part of my forthcoming monograph on the history of Jews in Kyiv in the Sovie... more This presentation is part of my forthcoming monograph on the history of Jews in Kyiv in the Soviet times. One of the challenges of working on the Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv is the limited documentary sources, because Soviet authorities hid and denied the starvation in the country. In the last few decades a number of works were published on the Holodomor and its effect on the Ukrainian rural population, but the effect of the Holodomor on Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine is still an under-researched topic. . I argue in my paper that the Holodomor had a profound impact on all the population of Ukraine. It badly affected the life of all Kyivans, including Jews which made up about a quarter of the population of the city, and Jewish-gentile relations in Kyiv.

My interview about my book "Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917" (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016), https://newbooksnetwork.com/jewish-city-or-inferno-of-russian-israel

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