Museet tipsar om intressant boksamtal 21 oktober: Babyn Yar – History and Memory
The event is organized by Ukrainska Institutet i Sverige, Jewish Community in Stockholm, Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, Paideia folkhögskola and The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter also supported the publication of the book.
Obs! boksamtalet hålls på engelska och på annan ort.
Book & Talk: Babyn Yar: History and Memory by Paul Robert Magocsi
Monday, October 21, from 18:00, Stockholm
Paul Robert Magocsi published his new book, Babyn Yar: History and Memory, in 2023. Babyn Yar in Kyiv was the site of one of the largest mass shootings of Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe. The book features contributions from internationally renowned scholars who explore the representation of Babyn Yar in culture, music, and the arts from Stalinist times to the present. The essays highlight the importance of preserving Babyn Yar as a symbol of the Holocaust and other twentieth-century tragedies, extending beyond the detailed and harrowing accounts of the events in Kyiv in late September 1941.The event is moderated by Lior Becker.
About Speakers:
Paul Robert Magocsi is a distinguished historian and political scientist at the University of Toronto, where he has held the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies since 1980. He earned his degrees from Rutgers, Princeton, and Harvard University. Professor Magocsi has taught at prestigious institutions, including Harvard, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Prešov University. He has also been a historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 1996, he was named a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received honorary degrees from Prešov University and Kamianets-Podilskyi National University. His research focuses on nationalism, particularly among ethnic groups in border areas, and spans history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography, and immigration studies.
Lior Becker, PhD, is a modern historian, educator, and interdisciplinary scholar. Born in Israel and based in Sweden, his areas of expertise are Holocaust history, historiography and memory, in particular, Yizkor books and other forms of grassroots Holocaust commemoration; 19th and 20th-century intellectual history and political philosophy, comparative genocide studies, and Eastern-European Jewish history and culture.
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