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SUMMARY:'The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew'\, A Pu
 blic Lecture by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern - Professor Yohanan Petrovsky-Sht
 ern\, Northwestern University
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CONTACT:Dr R E Finnin
DESCRIPTION:Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Crown Family Professor of Jewish Stu
 dies\, Northwestern University) comes to Cambridge to discuss his recent b
 ook 'The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew'\, which wo
 n the 2009-2010 American Association for Ukranian Studies Book Prize.\n\nF
 rom Yale UP:\n\n'This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution
  to\, and integration with\, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern f
 ocuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary activiti
 es span the 1880s to the 1990s. Unlike their East European contemporaries 
 who disparaged the culture of Ukraine as second-rate\, stateless\, and col
 onial\, these individuals embraced the Russian- and Soviet-dominated Ukrai
 nian community\, incorporating their Jewish concerns in their Ukrainian-la
 nguage writings. The author argues that the marginality of these literati 
 as Jews fuelled their sympathy toward Ukrainians and their national cause.
  Providing extensive historical background\, biographical detail\, and ana
 lysis of each writer’s poetry and prose\, Petrovsky-Shtern shows how a U
 krainian-Jewish literary tradition emerged. Along the way\, he challenges 
 assumptions about modern Jewish acculturation and Ukrainian-Jewish relatio
 ns.'\n
LOCATION:Latimer room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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