The War Against Ukraine through a lens of culture and history

“On February 24, 2022 Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. It has caused a loss of life and destruction while uprooting hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. The refugee crisis has quickly become monumental as neighboring countries scramble to provide necessary humanitarian needs. History and especially history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations have been cited in proclamations leading up to the attack. How do we untangle this propaganda campaign? What was the path that led to building an independent Ukrainian state?
How did we get here?
What will it take to constrain the aggression?
What does this mean for diplomacy and peace?
Join CWB Scholar Natalia Aleksiun and an esteemed panel of scholars and eyewitnesses as we examine this crisis and the consequences across Europe and the World.
Natalia Aleksiun

Natalia Aleksiun is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies, New York. She has received many prestigious fellowships. She published a monograph titled Where to? The Zionist Movement in Poland, 1944-1950 and a critical edition of Gershon Taffet’s Destruction of the Jewish Community of Żółkiew and coedited the 20th volume of Polin, devoted to the memory of the Holocaust and the 29th volume titled Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe. Her book Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust will be published with Littman in early 2020. She is currently working on a new book about the so-called cadaver affair at European Universities in the 1920s and 1930s and on a project dealing with daily lives of Jews in hiding in Galicia during the Holocaust.

Monday March 28th, 2022: Featuring Elissa Bemporad and Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets
Monday April 11th, 2022 Featuring Omer Bartov, Dr. Marta Havryshko
In partnership with the Jack Buncher Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Carnegie Mellon University”