My Ukraine – Rethinking the Past, Building the Present Leonid Finberg, Andreas Umland

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finberg, Leonid, Author.

Contributor:

Umland, Andreas, Editor.

Series:

Ukrainian Voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukrainian-Jewish History.

Ukrainian-Jewish Intellectuals.

Ukrainisch-Jüdische Geschichte.

Ukrainisch-Jüdische Intellektuelle.

Ukrainian-Jewish Communities.

Ukrainisch-Jüdische Gemeinden.

Local Subjects:

Ukrainian-Jewish History.

Ukrainian-Jewish Intellectuals.

Ukrainisch-Jüdische Geschichte.

Ukrainisch-Jüdische Intellektuelle.

Ukrainian-Jewish Communities.

Ukrainisch-Jüdische Gemeinden.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2025

Biography/History:

Leonid Finberg (b. 1948) is a sociologist as well as cultural researcher, and the Director of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Dukh i Litera (Spirit and Letter) Publishing House in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 1972, he graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute and worked as an engineering researcher until 1996. From 1997 to 2000, he taught Jewish Civilization at the Judaica Master's program of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since 1995, he has been a member of the editorial board, and since 2015 editor-in-chief of the Yehupets Art & Criticism Almanac. Together with Kostyantyn Sigov, he has been the publisher of more than 500 volumes by Dukh i Litera, among them: books by Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Georges Niv, Yaroslav Pelikan, Serhiy Averintsev, Serhiy Paradzhanov, Czeslaw Milosz, Janusz Korczak, Leonidas Donskis, Mircea Eliade, Gennadiy Estraikh, Borys Khersonsky, Sviatlana Aleksiyevych, Timothy Snyder, Myroslav Marynovych, Joseph Zissels, Pinchas Polonsky, and others.

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Leonid Finberg (b. 1948) is a sociologist as well as cultural researcher, and the Director of the Center for Research on the History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Dukh i Litera (Spirit and Letter) Publishing House in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 1972, he graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute and worked as an engineering researcher until 1996. From 1997 to 2000, he taught Jewish Civilization at the Judaica Master's program of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since 1995, he has been a member of the editorial board, and since 2015 editor-in-chief of the Yehupets Art & Criticism Almanac. Together with Kostyantyn Sigov, he has been the publisher of more than 500 volumes by Dukh i Litera, among them: books by Hannah Arendt, Paul Ricoeur, Georges Niv, Yaroslav Pelikan, Serhiy Averintsev, Serhiy Paradzhanov, Czeslaw Milosz, Janusz Korczak, Leonidas Donskis, Mircea Eliade, Gennadiy Estraikh, Borys Khersonsky, Sviatlana Aleksiyevych, Timothy Snyder, Myroslav Marynovych, Joseph Zissels, Pinchas Polonsky, and others.

Summary:

Leonid Finberg is a prominent Jewish-Ukrainian public intellectual. His main research interests include the history and culture of the Jews of Ukraine, Ukrainian society of the twentieth century, post-totalitarian world, and socio-political issues of the present. He has published over 100 articles in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, French, German, and American academic and non-fiction journals. This volume contains Finberg’s account of his own editorial, writing, and publishing activities, his articles on and assessments of current events in Ukrainian and Jewish history. The collection of texts is a testament to different stages in the development of Finberg’s self-awareness and reflections on culture, history, and the present.

“Traveling through Finberg’s book is not about moving from point A to point B. There are sunshine, wonder, irony, soft invitations to reflect, lucky finds (real treasures!), and incredible acquaintances, at every page. They are ‘assembly points’—places to join those who walk, read, and work side by side.” Professor Olena Stiazhkina, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

To the Readers

I Interviews

1. Biography Pages

2. Publishing Affairs

3. About Moral Authorities

4. Around Judaic Studies

5. Ukrainians and Jews

6. On Cultural Shifts

7. "Despite the pain, find some ways of survival": Leonid Finberg on Books Published During the War

8. Philisophical and Sociological Tought in the Late 80s and Early 90s of the Last Century

ІІ Articles, Speeches, Opinion Polls

9. "Orange Prowess" (Expert opinions)

10. "Maidan. Testimonies" (Foreword to the book)

11. Selected Characteristics of the Soviet Totalitarian Abyss

12. Preface to the Issue of the Almanac Yegupets Dedicated to Yiddish Culture

13. Ukrainian Intellectuals on Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

14. A Warning from Hannah Arendt

15. Leonid Finberg's Speech at the Stanislaw Vincenz Prize For Humanitarian Service and Contribution to the Development of Regions (26.09.2020)

16. Holocaust. Babyn Yar. Present Day

17. Russia's Use of Holocaust History to Discredit Ukrainians and Ukraine

III Memoirs

18. Ivan Dziuba

19. Myron Petrovsky

20. Boris Lekar

A life-long story

If Socrates.

ISBN:

9783838279749

3838279743

Publisher Number:

9783838279749