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YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN
The Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies

Northwestern University (NU)

1881 Sheridan Road, Room 317, Evanston, Il 60208

Phone: (847) 467-3399

Fax: (847) 467-1393

e-mail: yps@northwestern.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of Jewish History, Department of History and the

Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Northwestern University, 2011—present

The Kosciuszko Visiting Professor, University of Warsaw, 2016

Recurrent Visiting Professor, The Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, 2015—present

Associate Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2010—present

Fulbright Specialist, Visiting Professor, Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine, 2014

Director, the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, NU, 2009—2012

Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ukrainian Free University in Munich, 2009—present

Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2008, 2011

Associate Professor, Department of History and the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, NU, 2009—2011

Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Summer School, 2010

Assistant Professor, History Department, Northwestern University, 2003—2009

Fulbright Visiting Professor, University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, 2008

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2007

The Sensibar Visiting Professor, Spertus College, Chicago, 2007—2008

Northwestern Summer Holocaust Institute, 2005—present

Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2003—2006

Faculty, Judaic and Slavic Studies, Tufts University, 2000—2003

Faculty, Hebrew College, Boston, 1999—2003


Chair, Department of Judaic Studies, International Solomon University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1993—1995

Senior Research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1992—1995

Lecturer, double appointment, Comparative Literature and Spanish Philology Departments, Shevchenko Kyiv

National University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1988—1993

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2001 (Modern Jewish History)

Dissertation: “Jews in the Russian Army, 1827—1914”

Adviser: Antony Polonsky. Readers: Michael Stanislawski, Gregory Freeze.

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Moscow University (kandidatskaia diss.; MGU), 1988

Dissertation: “The Poetics of Gabriel García Márquez”

Adviser: Svetlana Eremina-Piskunova. Readers: Natalia Malinovsky, Eleazar Meletinsky.

M.A., Philology of German and Romance Languages, Kiev University (KGU), 1984


Hochschule Bremen (University of Applied Sciences), Advanced German language course,

Oberstufe 1 Certificate, 2013

Intensive studies of the Rabbinics: Yeshivat Ohr Somayach, Israeli Division, Jerusalem, 1993,

1995, 1996; havruta/continuing studies: with Prof. David Kazhdan, Boston, 1997-2001; with Rabbi Ochs, Boston, 2000-2003; with Rabbi Beider, Chicago, 2004-2007.

Rothschild Fellow at Hebrew University, 1995/06: Studied with Shaul Stampfer. Took courses with Yosef

Kaplan and Immanuel Etkes.

Studies in Jewish Paleography, Institute of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem; certificate, 1993.



EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

East European Jewish History and Culture (studied with Antony Polonsky, Moshe Rosman and Shaul Stampfer)

Early Modernity, Early Modern urban history, cultural history

Jewish Social History, Archives and Documents (studied with Jonathan Sarna)

Jewish medieval and early modern Mysticism and Kabbalah (studied with Arthur Green)

Jewish philosophy and intellectual history (studied with Isador Twersky)

Jewish Liturgy and History of Judaism (studied with Reuven Kimelman)

Jewish Paleography (Institute of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, intensive course, Summer, 2003)

Slavic Cultures (informal studies with Miron Petrovsky and Vadym Skuratovs’kyi)

Theory of Culture (spiritual mentors, no personal contacts: Yuri Lotman, Aleksei Losev, Sergei Averintsev)



FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS



The Kosciuszko Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw, Collegium de Artes Liberales, 2016

The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, Honorable Mention,

2015


National Jewish Book Award (History), 2015

The DAAD German Academic Exchange Fellowship, 2015



Nomination for 2015 Pulitzer Prize for the Golden Age Shtetl book, 2014

Fulbright Specialist appointment for teaching at the Lviv Center for Urban History, 2014

Doctor honoris causa at National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2013 (inauguration

January 2014)



The Lady Davis Visiting Professorship at Hebrew University, 2013 (spring term of 2014)

The Alice Kaplan Center in the Humanities grant co-sponsoring the NU & Spertus College 2014 International

Workshop on “Early Modern Jews, Healing, and Medicine,” August 2014



American Association of Ukrainian Studies Book Award, for The Anti-Imperial Choice book, 2011

Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University Fellowship, Jerusalem, March—August, 2011

The Alice Kaplan Center in the Humanities grant co-sponsoring the NU & Spertus College Conference “Jews,

Urban Space, and Early Modernity,” November 7—9, 2010



Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Grant, supporting the Ukrainian edition of The Anti-Imperial Choice book, 2010

Honors Roll, Northwestern University, 2009, 2010

Winner, first prize, Ab Imperio competition for the best publication in 10 years “introducing new significant

sources on the history of the Russian Empire and the USSR,” 2009

Distinguished Teaching Award, WCAS, Northwestern University, 2008—2009

Fulbright Visiting Scholar/Research Fellowship, 2008

Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 2007

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grant, 2007—2008

Cohn Scholars Fund, Spertus College, 2007

Faculty Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2006, 2007, 2008

National Endowment for Humanities Summer Fellowship, 2006

Faculty Reading Group in Central and East European Jewish History, 2006

Fellow Assistant Researcher Award, Northwestern University, 2006

Faculty Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2006

The Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, Fellow, 2003—2006

University of Illinois Russian and the U.S. Department of State Title VIII Program, Summer Fellowship, 2004

École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales Visiting Fellowship, Paris, 1995 and 2003

Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2002—2003

Nachum Glatzer Prize for the Dissertation, Brandeis University, 2001

Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1997—1998; 1998—1999

Ruth Ann Perlmutter Scholarship, Brandeis University, 1996—2000

Rothschild Fellowship, Yad Hanadiv Foundation, Jerusalem, 1995—1996

Jerusalem Fellows/Amite Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, 1995—96 (declined)

Grant for Social Leadership, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1994

Research Fellowship, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies (CREES), University of Toronto, 1993

PUBLICATIONS IN JEWISH STUDIES
BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES


Ukrainians and Jews: A Millennium of Interaction, co-authored with Paul Robert Magocsi (University of

Toronto Press, 2016), forthcoming.


Cultural Interference of Jews and Ukrainians: a Field in the Making. Inaugural Lecture at the investiture

ceremony conferring the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” doctor honoris causa degree, January 20, 2014 (Kyiv: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2014) [in Ukrainian].


The Golden Age Shtetl: a New History of Jewish Life in East Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press,

2014; paperback, 2015).

Reviewed in: American Jewish World, Association of Jewish Libraries, Canadian Jewish NewsChoice, CommentaryForeign AffairsForvertsJerusalem Post, Jewish Journal, Jewish Herald Voice, Jewish Reporter, Jewish Review of Books, History Today, Key Reporter, Kirkus, Library Journal, Moment Magazine, Mosaic Magazine, Northern Review of Books, New York Times, Publishers Magazine, Reporter, Times Litterary Supplement, Weekly StandardUnconventional Literary Review
POLIN: Jews and Ukrainians, vol. 26 (Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013),

co-edited with Antony Polonsky.



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