Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Late and Post-Soviet Ukraine: Articles, Lectures and Essays from 1986 to 2016 (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)

Jewish-Ukrainian Relations in Late and Post-Soviet Ukraine: Articles, Lectures and Essays from 1986 to 2016 (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)

Aleksandr Burakovskiy
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Publication Date: December 26th, 2028
Publisher:
Ibidem Press
ISBN:
9783838212104
Pages:
250

Description

The implementation of perestroika and the unexpected collapse of the USSR provoked unease that long-underlying ethnic tensions could erupt in strife in the post-Soviet world. Of particular concern in Ukraine was one of history's fault lines in the region--the relations between Jews and Ukrainians.

In this collection of articles, lectures, presentations, and research, the author, a writer and an activist during this period of change, through firsthand experience offers an overview of the bold hopes of the Ukrainian and Jewish intellectual elite, as well as of the multifaceted and complicated reality and disappointments that thwarted these hopes.

About the Author

Aleksandr Burakovskiy chaired the Council of Nationalities of Rukh-The Popular Movement of Ukraine, served on the board of directors of the VAAD-USSR, is a former member of the Writers Unions of the USSR, as well as Ukraine, and was cofounder of the Sholom Aleichem Society in Kyiv. He received his doctorate in telecommunications engineering from the Moscow (Central) Telecommunications Research Institute, and a Candidate of Science from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was a visiting research fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

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