Review
"Bitter memories and the specter of the Holocaust continue to haunt Jewish-Ukrainian relations.... Only a full admission of the disturbing facts of the past and a full respect for the perpetuation of the memory of the former Jewish communities may at least partly exorcise the guilt and open a new page [in their] mutual relations. Perhaps this book may serve as one of the guiding lights in this direction." -- Jerusalem Post
"An excellent volume that approaches the Holocaust in Ukraine from a variety of angles.... Highlights the complexity of the 'Final Solution' in Ukraine." -- Jeff Rutherford
"Deserving special note are Timothy Snyder's chapter on Volhynian Jewry for its elegantand diligent use of both general and Jewish sources; and Karel C. Berkhoff 's sensitiveanalysis of the various testimonies of Dina Pronicheva, who survived the nightmarishBabi Yar massacre. Omer Bar-Tov concludes the book with an overview of how the Jewishfacets of Eastern Galicia's history are systematically ignored and erased by Ukrainians inwhose historical consciousness there is no room for how Jews lived and were murderedin a region that was a center of Jewish culture and religion." -- Jewish Book World, Summer 5769/2009
"A useful introduction to a very complex topic, but it also highlights the work remaining for scholars in Ukraine and elsewhere and the continuing need for further international scholarly collaboration." -- Sean Martin, The Russian Review
"This collection is a worthy enterprise that offers new insights into the Holocaust on the territory of contemporary Ukraine.... The investigation of the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as in Belarus to the north where some 900,000 Jews died, is finally under way." -- American Historical Review
"Rarely have I read an anthology that is of such consistently high quality.... The writing is almost uniformly excellent and the production by Indiana University Press is of the highest quality.... The editors have produced a riveting volume that should attract wide scholarly and general audiences." -- Slavic Review, Spring 2010
"[This book]... represents a major contribution to Holocaust historiography." -- DAN STONE, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK, Jewish History, Jan. 9, 2010 online
"Written by experts in their fields and accompanied by excellent maps and illustrations, all chapters and the editors' introduction are of very high quality.... this volume lays the groundwork for all further study of the Holocaust in Ukraine." -- Helmut Langerbein, University of Texas at Brownsville, HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES, Vol. 24.1 2010
From the Author
Ray Brandon, a freelance editor, translator, and researcher based in Berlin, is a former editor at
Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, English edition.
Wendy Lower is Assistant Professor of History at Towson University in Maryland and Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. She is author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
