Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a professor of Jewish history at Northwestern University. He teaches early modern and modern east European Jewish history; Jewish mysticism and kabbalah; the history and culture of Ukraine; and Slavonic Jewish literature. He has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe, a fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He has published several books, including Jews in the Russian Army, 1827–1917: Drafted into Modernity (2008), The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew (2009), winner of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies book award, and Lenin’s Jewish Question (2010). He has recently finished, The Golden-Age Shtetl, and together with Paul Robert Magocsi is working on a study entitled 'Jews and Ukrainians in the Ukrainian Lands'. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: JEWS AND UKRAINIANSIntroduction Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony PolonskyThe First Jews of Ukraine Dan ShapiraJews of Lviv and the City Council in the Early Modern Period Myron KapralChristian Anti-Judaism and Jewish–Orthodox Relations among the East Slavs up to 1569 Alexander Pereswetoff-MorathJews, Orthodox, and Uniates in Ruthenian Lands Judith KalikJews in Russian Travel Narratives of the Early Nineteenth Century Taras KoznarskyBetween Nation and Class: Natalia Kobrynska’s Jewish Characters Amelia GlaserThe Jewish Formations of Western Ukraine during the Civil War Yaroslav TynchenkoJewish Themes in Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Writing Mykola Iv. SorokaThe ‘Jewish Question’ in the Ukrainian Nationalist Discourse of the Inter-War Period Taras KuryloBreaking Taboos: The Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukrainian–Jewish Relations Myroslav ShkandrijThe Ukrainian Nationalist Movement and the Jews: Theoretical Reflections on Nationalism, Fascism, Rationality, Primordialism, and History Alexander J. MotylThe Ukrainian Free University and the Jews Nicolas SzafowalImported Violence: Carpatho-Ruthenians and Jews in Carpatho-Ukraine, October 1938–March 1939 Raz SegalMetropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and the Holocaust John-Paul HimkaWe Did Not Recognize Our Country: The Rise of Antisemitism in Ukraine before and after the Second World War, 1937–1947 Victoria KhitererOn the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Murders in Baby Yar Ivan DzyubaReminiscences About Friends Yury (Arye) VudkaGrains of Ukrainian–Israeli 'Solidarity' Yevhen SverstyukUkrainian–Jewish Relations: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective HOWARD ASTER and PETER J. POTICHNYJYiddish: Identity and Language Politics in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Jewish Community Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin‘A City Not Forgotten: Memories of Jewish Lwów and the Holocaust’ An Exhibition at the Galician Jewish Museum, Kraków, June 2010–January 2011 Jakub NowakowskiEight Jews in Search of a Grandfather Mykola RyabchukA Note on the Names of the Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv Sergey KravtsovPART II: NEW VIEWSThe Vagaries of British Compassion: Britons, Poles, and Jews after the First World War Russell WallisThe Merry-Go-Round on Krasiński Square: Did ‘the happy throngs laugh’? The Debate Regarding the Attitude of Warsaw's Inhabitants towards the Ghetto Uprising Tomasz SzarotaPersonal Accounts of the War by Polish Writers in Occupied Warsaw: The Case of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Rachel Feldhay BrennerObituary Józef Życiński by Monika RiceGlossary Notes on the Contributors Index

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a professor of Jewish history at Northwestern University. He teaches early modern and modern east European Jewish history; Jewish mysticism and kabbalah; the history and culture of Ukraine; and Slavonic Jewish literature. He has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe, a fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He has published several books, including Jews in the Russian Army, 1827–1917: Drafted into Modernity (2008), The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew (2009), winner of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies book award, and Lenin’s Jewish Question (2010). He has recently finished, The Golden-Age Shtetl, and together with Paul Robert Magocsi is working on a study entitled 'Jews and Ukrainians in the Ukrainian Lands'. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: JEWS AND UKRAINIANSIntroduction Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony PolonskyThe First Jews of Ukraine Dan ShapiraJews of Lviv and the City Council in the Early Modern Period Myron KapralChristian Anti-Judaism and Jewish–Orthodox Relations among the East Slavs up to 1569 Alexander Pereswetoff-MorathJews, Orthodox, and Uniates in Ruthenian Lands Judith KalikJews in Russian Travel Narratives of the Early Nineteenth Century Taras KoznarskyBetween Nation and Class: Natalia Kobrynska’s Jewish Characters Amelia GlaserThe Jewish Formations of Western Ukraine during the Civil War Yaroslav TynchenkoJewish Themes in Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Writing Mykola Iv. SorokaThe ‘Jewish Question’ in the Ukrainian Nationalist Discourse of the Inter-War Period Taras KuryloBreaking Taboos: The Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukrainian–Jewish Relations Myroslav ShkandrijThe Ukrainian Nationalist Movement and the Jews: Theoretical Reflections on Nationalism, Fascism, Rationality, Primordialism, and History Alexander J. MotylThe Ukrainian Free University and the Jews Nicolas SzafowalImported Violence: Carpatho-Ruthenians and Jews in Carpatho-Ukraine, October 1938–March 1939 Raz SegalMetropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and the Holocaust John-Paul HimkaWe Did Not Recognize Our Country: The Rise of Antisemitism in Ukraine before and after the Second World War, 1937–1947 Victoria KhitererOn the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Murders in Baby Yar Ivan DzyubaReminiscences About Friends Yury (Arye) VudkaGrains of Ukrainian–Israeli 'Solidarity' Yevhen SverstyukUkrainian–Jewish Relations: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective HOWARD ASTER and PETER J. POTICHNYJYiddish: Identity and Language Politics in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Jewish Community Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin‘A City Not Forgotten: Memories of Jewish Lwów and the Holocaust’ An Exhibition at the Galician Jewish Museum, Kraków, June 2010–January 2011 Jakub NowakowskiEight Jews in Search of a Grandfather Mykola RyabchukA Note on the Names of the Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv Sergey KravtsovPART II: NEW VIEWSThe Vagaries of British Compassion: Britons, Poles, and Jews after the First World War Russell WallisThe Merry-Go-Round on Krasiński Square: Did ‘the happy throngs laugh’? The Debate Regarding the Attitude of Warsaw's Inhabitants towards the Ghetto Uprising Tomasz SzarotaPersonal Accounts of the War by Polish Writers in Occupied Warsaw: The Case of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Rachel Feldhay BrennerObituary Józef Życiński by Monika RiceGlossary Notes on the Contributors Index

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a professor of Jewish history at Northwestern University. He teaches early modern and modern east European Jewish history; Jewish mysticism and kabbalah; the history and culture of Ukraine; and Slavonic Jewish literature. He has been appointed a Fulbright Specialist on Eastern Europe, a fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich. He has published several books, including Jews in the Russian Army, 1827–1917: Drafted into Modernity (2008), The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew (2009), winner of the American Association of Ukrainian Studies book award, and Lenin’s Jewish Question (2010). He has recently finished, The Golden-Age Shtetl, and together with Paul Robert Magocsi is working on a study entitled 'Jews and Ukrainians in the Ukrainian Lands'. Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

• Note on Place Names Note on TransliterationPART I: JEWS AND UKRAINIANSIntroduction Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and Antony PolonskyThe First Jews of Ukraine Dan ShapiraJews of Lviv and the City Council in the Early Modern Period Myron KapralChristian Anti-Judaism and Jewish–Orthodox Relations among the East Slavs up to 1569 Alexander Pereswetoff-MorathJews, Orthodox, and Uniates in Ruthenian Lands Judith KalikJews in Russian Travel Narratives of the Early Nineteenth Century Taras KoznarskyBetween Nation and Class: Natalia Kobrynska’s Jewish Characters Amelia GlaserThe Jewish Formations of Western Ukraine during the Civil War Yaroslav TynchenkoJewish Themes in Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Writing Mykola Iv. SorokaThe ‘Jewish Question’ in the Ukrainian Nationalist Discourse of the Inter-War Period Taras KuryloBreaking Taboos: The Holodomor and the Holocaust in Ukrainian–Jewish Relations Myroslav ShkandrijThe Ukrainian Nationalist Movement and the Jews: Theoretical Reflections on Nationalism, Fascism, Rationality, Primordialism, and History Alexander J. MotylThe Ukrainian Free University and the Jews Nicolas SzafowalImported Violence: Carpatho-Ruthenians and Jews in Carpatho-Ukraine, October 1938–March 1939 Raz SegalMetropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and the Holocaust John-Paul HimkaWe Did Not Recognize Our Country: The Rise of Antisemitism in Ukraine before and after the Second World War, 1937–1947 Victoria KhitererOn the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Murders in Baby Yar Ivan DzyubaReminiscences About Friends Yury (Arye) VudkaGrains of Ukrainian–Israeli 'Solidarity' Yevhen SverstyukUkrainian–Jewish Relations: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective HOWARD ASTER and PETER J. POTICHNYJYiddish: Identity and Language Politics in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian Jewish Community Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin‘A City Not Forgotten: Memories of Jewish Lwów and the Holocaust’ An Exhibition at the Galician Jewish Museum, Kraków, June 2010–January 2011 Jakub NowakowskiEight Jews in Search of a Grandfather Mykola RyabchukA Note on the Names of the Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv Sergey KravtsovPART II: NEW VIEWSThe Vagaries of British Compassion: Britons, Poles, and Jews after the First World War Russell WallisThe Merry-Go-Round on Krasiński Square: Did ‘the happy throngs laugh’? The Debate Regarding the Attitude of Warsaw's Inhabitants towards the Ghetto Uprising Tomasz SzarotaPersonal Accounts of the War by Polish Writers in Occupied Warsaw: The Case of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz Rachel Feldhay BrennerObituary Józef Życiński by Monika RiceGlossary Notes on the Contributors Index