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Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence

The very title of this book is irritating: Is “co-existence” really the appropriate prism through which we should seek to understand Jewish–Ukrainian relations? The authors’ introductory statement describing their choice to “construct a parallel narrative” of the more than 1,000 years of coexistence between Jews and Ukrainians on the territory of present-day Ukraine—thereby “leaving aside mutual accusations” (p. 1)—further heightens suspicion. Would such a research framework not automatically lead to an apologetic treatise? But the authors—Paul Robert Magocsi, who holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies in the Department of History at the University of Toronto, and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Northwestern University—are highly respected scholars. They would certainly not risk their academic standing with a one-sided account of the complex, often difficult, and even tortured relationship between Ukrainians and Jews.