Part IX: Jews and Contemporary Ukraine

   Updated 1/13/2003

• Abramson, Ruth, Benjamin: journey of a Jew, Alpha Pub. Co., Columbus, OH, 1987.
• Apple, Slovie Solomon, They were strangers: a family history, 1st ed., Vantage Press, New York, 1995.
• Bernstein, Amy, "Memorial; yes, it happened," (Babi Yar mass executions), U.S. News and World Report, vol. 111, No. 16, October 14, 1991, p. 17. Discusses a new memorial at the site where Nazis executed 200,000 Jews.
• Bilinsky, Y. "Ukrainians and Jews: A Review Article", The Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the USA 14, 1978-80, pp. 244-57.
• Brym, Robert J., The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: identity, antisemitism, emigration, with the assistance of Rozalina Ryvkina, editor Howard Spier, Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with the Institute of Jewish Affairs, 1994.
• Clines, Francis, "For Odessa's Jews, a time of anxiety," New York Times, vol. 139, Thursday, May 3, 1990, A6(N), A16(L), col. 1.
• Brym, Robert, Ryvkina, Rozalina, and Spier, Howard, The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration, New York University Press, April 1994.
• Charnofsky, Michael, Jewish life in the Ukraine; a family saga, With a word in pref. by Harry Lang, 1st ed., Exposition Press, New York, 1965.
• Demkowych, Christine, "Some Jews forgo Israel's promise and elect to say in Ukraine; they have spurned emigration and hope to lead a rebirth of Jewish culture in a land where there once were pogroms. A regional democratic independence movement has provided part of the catalyst," Los Angeles Times, March 5, 1991.
• DeView, Lucille S., "Flight led from a Ukrainian shtetl to a land of hope,” Orange County Register, May 3, 1994.
• "The dwindling Jewry of Ukraine: One in ten Ukrainian Jews leave for Israel, America, or Germany," (brief article), Economist v349, December 19, 1998, p. 64.
• Easterman, Max, "Fading voice of the Jewish forefathers: Max Easterman in Lviv, Ukraine, reports on hostility towards Yiddish," The Financial Times, April 25, 1998.
• “The East European shtetl: Last chapter,” Economist, 07-19-1997.  Korsun-Shevchenskovsky, Ukraine.    
• Erlanger, Steven, "As Ukraine loses Jews, the Jews lose a tradition," New York Times, August 27, 1992, International Pages.
• Erlanger, Steven, "A life as prisoner of Europe's hatreds," (account of the Jewish ghetto in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), New York Times vol. 142, section 4, Sunday, October 11, 1992, E1(N), E1(L), col. 5.
• Frank,Ben, A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine, Pelican Pub Co., October 1999.
• Frankston, Janet, “Overseas trips allow for deeper exploration,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 10-06-2002. The American Jewish Congress has been offering escorted tours overseas since 1958.  
• Freeland, Cynthia, "Ukrainian role admitted in '41 Babi Yar massacre," (Ukrainian government recognizes 50th anniversy of the massacre), Washington Post vol. 114, Sunday, October 6, 1991, A31, col. 2, October 6, 1991.
• Goldman, Ari, "Rosh ha-Shanah journey to Hasidic master's tomb" (to the Ukraine), New York Times, vol. 139, Wednesday, September, 1989, A16(N), B2(L), col. 1.
• Goldman, Ari L., “Revival in Kiev,” Jerusalem Post, 11-09-2001.
• Gorodetsky, Lev, “Teachers meet in rural Ukraine, but community's future seen as bleak,” Jerusalem Post, 8-26-2001.
• Greenwald, Igor, "The Study of Yiddish comes to life once again in Sholom Aleichem's land," (Ukraine), Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 3, No 33, April 25, 1997, B2. Profile of a college professor who teaches Yiddish to students.
• Greenwald, Igor, "A new Ukrainian university tries to revive its country's Jewish culture," (Solomon International University), Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 42, No. 31, April 12, 1995: A47.
• Gur, Areih, Escape: From Kiev to Tel Aviv, Translation Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1982.
• Gussow, Mel, “A wry memoir of a Ukrainian Jewish clan strikes a chord,” The New York Times, June 5, 2001 pB1(N) pE1(L) col 1.
• Haberman, Clyde, “Ghostly volumes that speak of the unspeakable,” (demise of communism in Europe opens Holocaust data once held by East Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Russia) (International/National Pages ), New York Times v141 (Tue, March 17, 1992):A6(N), A4(L), col 1.
• Hamilton, Denise, “Soviet leaders, honoring Babi Yar victims, condemn anti-Semitism,” (Mikhail Gorbachev and Leonid Kravchuck, president of Ukraine, honor victims of massacre during World War, 1939-1945), Los Angeles Times v110 (Sun, Oct 6, 1991):A6, col 1.
• Hesli, Vicki L., Morgan, Kevin L., Miller, Arthur H., "Social Distance from Jews in Russia and Ukraine," Slavic review, v 53 n 3, Fall 1994.
• "Jews in Odessa recover a heritage in Yiddish; after decades of anti-Semitism, a small renaissance," New York Times, vol. 145, Thursday, September 5, 1996, A4(N), A9(L), col. 5.
• "Jews make pilgrimage to Ukraine," (thousands of Orthodox Jews visit the grave of Rabbi Nahman ben Simhah in Uman, Ukraine), New York Times, vol. 147, no. 275, Thursday, October 2, 1997, A3 (N), A3(L), col. 1.
• Karpen, Lynn, “Someone who won't ask what you are,” (Novelist Aharon Appelfeld drew on his background as a Jewish boy in the Ukraine during the holocaust to write 'Katerina,' a tale of gentiles willing to shelter Jews. 'Katerina' is Appelfeld's first work in which the protagonist is a gentile woman), New York Times Book Review (Sun, Sept 27, 1992):9, col 1.
• "Kiev Jews observe Sabbath in old synagogue," (Ukrainian Jews celebrate first Sabbath in the main synagogue since 1925), New York Times, vol. 142, Sunday December 6, 1992, 6(N), 18(L), col. 4.
• Kinman, Michelle, “Reviving Jewish Community Life in Ukraine,” Surviving together v 14 n 3, Fall 1996.
• Kleiner, I. "Ukrainian Dissidents and the Jews", Soviet Jewish Affairs 11, 1981, pp. 3-14.
• Kwitney, Johathan, “The Ukraine's Holocaust reversal; commemoration honors Jewish victims at Babi Yar,” (independent Ukraine promises equal rights to minorities), Washington Post v114 (Mon, Oct 7, 1991):D1, col 1.
• Kuropas, Myron, “A Jewish renaissance in Ukraine?” The Ukrainian Weekly, September 14, 1997, No. 37, Vol. LXV
• "Last Chapter: The Eastern European Shtetl," (Jewish towns in Ukraine), Economist, v344, no. 8026, July 19, 1997, p. 74, 2 pp. Open borders and the poor economy contribute to Jewish migration from Ukraine.
• Lauter, David, "Babi Yar death site moves bush, survivors to tears," Los Angeles Times, vol. 110, Friday, August 2, 1991, A1, col. 5.
• Lear, Martha, "The Roots People," (American Jews look for heritage in Eastern Europe), New York Times Magazine, July 31, 1994, p. 32.
• Lee, Gary, "Jewish Flavor fades in Odessa, one-time stronghold off faith; Soviety power dims ethnicity, religious observance," Washington Post vol. 109, Sunday, July 20, 1986, A22, col. 1.
• “Massacre of Jews at Babi Yar to be recalled at service,” (Ukraine), New York Times v140 (Sat, Sept 14, 1991):11(N), col 4.
• Mendelsohn, Ezra, Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry), Brandeis University, December 2002.
• Miller, Russell; Pinkhassov, Guergoi, "Shtetl for a week; every year at Rosh ha-Shanah, a few thousand Jews return to Ukraine to celebrate with a rebbe who has been dead for nearly two centuries," (Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav), New York Times Magazine, Sunday, September 8, 1996, p. 54. col 1.
• Mirsky, Rudolf, “Antisemitism in Post-Soviet Ukraine,“ East European Jewish Affairs, v 24 n 2, Winter 1994.
• Mycio, Mary, “In Ukraine, many survivors of the Holocaust still await Recompense,” (restitution for victims of Nazi Germany during World War II), Los Angeles Times v115 (Sun, Dec 15, 1996):A12, col 2.
• Nisaion, avtor kontseptsii, uporiadnyk ekspozytsii, perednie slovo ta tekst katalohu O. Petrova, Vyprobuvannia: ievreis'ka tema v tvorakh khudozhnykiv Ukrainy - Ordeal: Jewish theme in the works of contemporary Ukrainian artists, Ministerstvo kul'tury Ukrainy, Asotsiatsiia ievreis'kykh obshchyn ta orhanizatsii Ukrainy, Kyiv, 1994.
• Ostrovskaya, Rita (Photographer) et al, Jews in the Ukraine: 1989-1994, Distributed Art Publishers.
• Paniotto, Volodymyr, “The Level of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine,” International Journal of Sociology, v 29 n 3, Fall 1999.
• Perlez, Jane, "In Ukraine, a new Jewish Flowering, New York Times, International Pages, January 6, 1995.
• Pilch, Judah, The weak against the strong; simple folk in the grip of turbulent times, Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1973.
• Roskies, David G., "There Go Our Little Jews," (Jewish Cultural Revival in Ukraine), Commentary, v. 89, no. 4, April, 1990, p. 49, 5pp.
• Rupert, James, "Ukrainian Jews glory in religion's revival; with decades of repression ended, synagogues and schools flourish," Washington Post, March 28, 1995.
• Salamon, Julie, The Net of Dreams : A Family's Search for a Rightful Place, Random House, New York, 1996.
• Sengupta. Somini, "A tearful reunion for three friends who defied Nazis," (Mikhail, Nikolai Vavrisevich and their parents sheltered Jews in Ukraine), New York Times, vol. 147, Friday, November 28, 1997, A1 (L), A1 (N), col. 6.
• Serotta, Edward, "The fiddler's last song,"  (Jews in small Ukrainian towns are largely forgotton), column, Washington Post, vol. 120, no. 355, Sunday, December 21, 1997, C7, col. 1.
• Shogren, Elizabeth, "50 years later, the horror of Babi Yar is recalled," Los Angeles Times, vol. 110, Monday, September 30, 1991, A1, col. 2.
• Sneider, Daniel, “Jews find complex ties with the new Ukraine,” The Christian Science Monitor, v 86 n102 p4 col 1, April 20, 1994.
• Sokolova, E., “Personal Experiences in Search of Jewish Cemeteries in Ukraine,” JPCU Survey Coordinator for Kiev, Chernigov, Poltava, and Vinnitsa Provinces, Jewish Heritage Report, Vol. I, Nos. 3-4, Winter 1997-98.
• Sonnenfeld, S.Z., Voices in the Silence, Yaakov Lavon (Translator), Feldheim, New York and Jerusalem, 1992.
• Stanley, Alessandra, “Pope visits Babi Yar site commemorating slain Jews.” (John Paul II in the Ukraine) The New York Times, June 26, 2001 pA11(N) pA11(L) col 1.
• Vickery, Tim, “Ukrainian Jews set upon in synagogue attack,” Jerusalem Post,  4-15-2002 (Kiev, Ukraine.)
• Weiner Miriam, Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (The Jewish Genealogy Series, Routes to Roots Foundation, July 1999.
• Wynne, Suzan, Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide, Avotaynu, June 1998.