Jewish-Ukrainian Relations and the Birth of a Political Nation - (Ukrainian Voices) by Vladislav Davidzon (Paperback)

About the Book

This selection of essays and dispatches examines Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

Understanding the story that Vladislav Davidzon tells about the role of Ukrainian Jewry over the last decade since the Maidan Revolution, will allow you understand the development of Ukraine as a modern nation-state.--Claire Berlinski, Author of There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters

A masterful chronicler of the real odyssey of the Ukrainian Jew amidst revolutionary times!-- "Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography"

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.-- "Wolf Moskovich, Professor of Slavic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem"

About the Author

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."