Jews in Trans-Imperial Ukraine: Religious, Economic, Cultural, and National Aspects

The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center is pleased to invite you to the research workshop:

Jews in Trans-Imperial Ukraine: Religious, Economic, Cultural, and National Aspects

The event will take place on Monday-Tuesday, July 2-3, 2023 
Room 203, Carter building, Tel Aviv University

For your attention, the event will be conducted in English.

Sunday, July 2, 2023

09:30 – 10:00 Reception

10:00 – 10:15 Greetings

Haim Ben-Yakov, Development and Public Affairs Division, Tel Aviv Univeristy 

Inna Ioffe, The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine

10:15 – 10:30 Opening Remarks

Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Between Local and Imperial: Revisiting the History of the Jews in Ukraine

10:30 – 12:00 First Session: Jews in Divided Ukraine in the 15th Century and Beyond

Chair: Anat Vaturi

Dan Shapira
1 Firk 143 and Its World: Qipchaq-speaking Rabbanite Jews from the Golden Horde between Kyiv, Novgorod and the Crimea in the 15th Century 

Judith Kalik 
Who Invented Vodka and How Ukrainian Jews Became Involved

Golda Akhiezer
Karaite Communities of Volhyn and Galicia: Social and Cultural Aspects

12:30 – 14:00 Second Session: Ukrainian Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Chair: Israel Bartal 
 

Anat Vaturi 
Between Manorial Economy and the Price Revolution: How Jews Became Property Managers 

Mikołaj Wojciechowski 
The Structural Evolution of Jewish Pious Brotherhoods in the Light of Socio-Religious Contexts: The Case of the Eighteenth-Century Komarno in Eastern Galicia

Iryna Klymenko 
Body Politics and Vigilance in Trans-Imperial Ukraine in the 16th–19th Centuries: A Book Project Presentation

15:00 – 17:00 Third Session: Perspectives on Modern Jewish Education in Ukraine

Chair: Vladyslava Moskalets 

Alex Valdman 
Jewish Education and the Jewish Provincial Intelligentsia in Ukraine 

Meirav Reuveny 
Hebrew, Childhood and Modernization in Czarist Ukraine

Shai Ginsburg
Hebrew Education and Hebrew Literary History at the Turn of the 20th Century 

Miriam Szamet 
Mykolaiv Immigrants, Narodnik Philosophy, and the Evolution of Jewish Education in Early 20th Century Jerusalem

Monday, July 3, 2023

10:00 – 10:30 Reception

10:30 – 12:00 Fourth Session: Urban and Rural Jews in Ukrainian Galicia and Bukovina

Chair: Shaul Stampfer

Tomasz Jankowski 
Topography of Ashkenazi Urban and Rural Demographic Continuum 

Johannes Czakai 
Jewish Colonists and Agricultural Endeavors in Galicia and Bukovina around 1800 

Nadia Skokova 
Rural Jews of the Sub-Carpathian Eastern Galicia in the Jewish and non-Jewish Political Movements: Austrian and Polish Periods

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Fifth Session: Jews between the Habsburg Monarchy, Russian Empire, and Polish Republic

Chair: Judith Kalik

Margarita Lerman 
“They Appear to Be Harmless, Peace-Loving Citizens”: Galician Jews between Habsburg and Ottoman Authorities in the Late 19th Century 

Natalia Poluhin-Ivanusa 
Interconnectedness between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Russian Empire: Jews of Brody and Odessa in the First Half of the 19th Century 

Dror Segev 
A Possibility of an Island: Jewish-Ukrainian Cultural Syncretism Outside the Pale at the End of the 19th Century

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 – 16:30 Sixth Session: Jews and Ukrainians in Literature

Chair: Avner Holtzman 

Shoshana Ronen 
The Local Story of Jewish and Ukrainian Villagers as Told in Hebrew: Five Village Stories by Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky
 
 

Stanisław Obirek 
Stanislaw Lem and His Jewish Secret: Why Jewishness became a Problem for Polish Jews after World War II 

Vladyslava Moskalets 
Travelling in Yiddish: Rediscovery of Eastern Jews in Interwar Reportages from Poland and the Soviet Union

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:30 Seventh Session: Between Confessional and Local: Rabbinical Elites in Trans-Imperial Ukraine

Chair: Alex Valdman 

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 
Between Confessional and Local: The Unlikely Career of R. Levy Itshak, the Rise of Hasidism, and the End of Early Modernity 

Refael Kroizer 
Lviv and the District: Between the Jews of the City and the Jews of the Village, the Struggle over the Jewish Slaughtering 

Levi Cooper 
Mapping Galicia: Challenges and Possibilities – Interim Project Report

18:30 – 19:00 Concluding Remarks

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