This is a selection of essays and dispatches from a veteran observer of the development of Ukrainian culture and politics over the course of a decade. The volume deals with the issue of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and its historical legacy in the context of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. It charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution and focuses on the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a quickly developing Ukrainian political nation.
Price: $30.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Ukrainian Voices
Publication Date:
28 November 2023
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838215099
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet
Vladislav Davidzon has for almost a decade been one of the most acute observers of the Ukrainian–Jewish relationship and of the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a developing political nation. His stylish reportage has been invaluable for understanding the dynamics of the Jewish Ukraine in a historical moment. This volume will surely enter the canon as an important document for anyone who wishes to understand this moment.
The author:
Vladislav Davidzon studied Intellectual History and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York and holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the Global Campus EMA program in Venice. He has been reporting on Ukrainian Jewish life for Tablet Magazine since 2012; he is the founding editor of The Odessa Review. Davidzon’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, and Bookforum Magazine. Davidzon is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the author of From Odessa With Love (Academica Press, 2021). He lives in Paris.
The author of the foreword:
Bernard-Henri Lévy is, according to The Boston Globe in 2015, “perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today.”
