Address: ul. Kutuzova, 8, room 113, Kiev, Ukraine
Tel.: 38-044-295-73-16
Fax: 38-044-296-15-26

The Department of Jewish history and culture was founded in December 1991 in effort to reestablish the Cabinet of Jewish culture existed in the Academy of Sciences until 1948.

At the present the Department's faculty includes six members. In 1995 - 1997 the Department had supervised five candidate and one doctoral dissertation theses on Jewish history in Ukraine. There are plans for the further expansion: in 1998 the graduation of students in humanities is expected from the Solomon University in Kiev. These 25 students will be the first experts in Judaica professionally trained in Ukraine.

Publication program of the Department comprises research works of its members and proceedings of scholarly conferences conducted by the Department. Documentary collection "Jewish political parties: Unknown documents and materials" was due by the end of 1997.

Dr. Alexander Zaremba is a chair of the Department.

List of the Depatment's publications

Gorovska N., Shapoval Iu., ed. Remember for life to continue: Proceedings of the round table on the 40th anniversary of the execution of the Jewish Antifacsist Committee members (Kiev, September, 1992). Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Kiev, 1993. 232 p. In Russian and Ukrainian.

The Beilis Trial: A look from today: Theses of the International conference on the 80th anniversary of the Beilis trial (Kiev, October 28 - 29, 1993). Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Kiev, 1994. 112 p. In Russian and Ukrainian.

Panchuk M., ed. Actual problems of history and culture of the Jews in Ukraine: Theses of the Department of Jewish history and culture. Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Kiev, 1994. 40 p. In Russian and Ukrainian.

Torchinskii Iu., ed. Concise Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary. Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Kiev, 1996. 207 p. In Yiddish and Ukrainian.

Jews in Ukraine: History, culture, traditions: Collected articles. Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Kiev, 1997. 256 p. In Russian and Ukrainian.

Jewish scholarly organizations in Ukraine in the 1920s - 1930s. Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Kiev, 1997. 134 p. In Russian and Ukrainian.

Pogrebinska I., Gon M. Jews in the People's Republic of West-Ukraine (on the problem of Ukrainian-Jewish relations). Institute for national relations and politology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Institute for economy and humanities in Rovno. Kiev, 1997. 86 p., ill. In Ukrainian.