Education
He studied art and music early on, and for some time sang in the Shchedryk children"s choir.
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The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew
( This book is the first to explore the Jewish contributi...)
This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activities span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate, stateless, and colonial, these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrainian community, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-language writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati as Jews fuelled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cause. Providing extensive historical background, biographical detail, and analysis of each writer’s poetry and prose, Petrovsky-Shtern shows how a Ukrainian-Jewish literary tradition emerged. Along the way, he challenges assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian-Jewish relations.
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is a historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn"s controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis Borges" works into Russian.
Career
He teaches Early Modern, Modern and East European Jewish history and Culture at Northwestern University. He was born in Kiev in 1962 to the family of Miron Petrovsky, a noted Ukrainian philologist. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature from Moscow University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Jewish history from Brandeis University.
He has been a Rothschild Fellow at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Sensibar Visiting Professor at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago, a Visiting Scholar at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, a Research Fellow at The National Endowment for the Humanities, in Poland, and a Fulbright Scholar at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kiev.
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The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew
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The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew
