November 6, 2016
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies in the History Department of Northwestern University.
Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies in the History Department of Northwestern University.
The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites all to a lecture “The 1648-49 Cossack Revolution through the Jewish Eyes: Yuri Kosach’s “Day of Rage” by Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies in the History Department of Northwestern University. Written in a German DP camp in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Khmelnytsky Cossack rebellion, Yuri Kosach’s novel “Day of Rage” offers unparalleled take on the Ukrainian-Jewish relations. While for many Jews the Cossack revolution was a moment in East European Jewish history known as the catastrophe of 1648-49 (gzeyres takh ve-tat), some Jews were sympathetic chroniclers and even participants in the rebellion. We will explore how and why Kosach transforms a stereotypical approach to the key events in Ukrainian history.