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 News, Choice, Commentary, Foreign Affairs, Forverts, Jerusalem 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 Standard, Unconventional 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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