Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence
Date and time:
Thursday 3 May, 2018
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Room G11, Ground Floor, South Wing, Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground ,University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
There is much that ordinary Ukrainians do not know about Jews and much that ordinary Jews do not know about Ukrainians. As a result, those Jews and Ukrainians who may care about their respective ancestral heritages usually view each other through distorted stereotypes, misperceptions, and biases. This book sheds new light on controversial moments of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and argues that the historical experience in Ukraine not only divided ethnic Ukrainians and Jews but also brought them together.
Professor Magoczi will deliver a talk in conversation with Dr Brendan McGeever, the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck.
The book’s publication and the event are supported by Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. Marina Pesenti, Director of Ukrainian Institute London, will open the event.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies. Professor Magocsi is the author of over 800 works, including 39 books primarily in the fields of political, cultural, and religious history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography, immigration and ethnic studies. Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia. In 1996 he was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015).
Speaker
Brendan McGeever
Dr Brendan McGeever is the Acting Associate Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London. He is a specialist on racism, antisemitism, and the former Soviet Union. His monograph The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.
