Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born April 6, 1962) is an American

Petrovsky-Shtern had several solo exhibitions, including such venues as the French Institute in July 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine;^[4] the Ukrainian Institute of America in spring 2015 in New York City;^[5] Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in February–March 2014 in Chicago;^[6] and in November 2012 at the museum of the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago.^[7]

Petrovsky-Shtern analyses the folkways and fantasies of his Jewish and Ukrainian heritage through “revisiting foundational narratives from the Hebrew Bible, Eastern European Jewish folk-characters and folk-tales, images and artifacts from his native Ukraine, and—of course—the Holocaust,” wrote Jerome Chanes in Jewish Week.^[8] 

“Although Petrovsky-Shtern’s main fields of interest are history and literature, ranging from the Jewish Middle Ages to Hasidic folklore, from the prose of Gabriel Garcia Marquez to the Ukrainian renaissance of the 1920s, it is on canvas that the depth of his knowledge of various religions and cultures is transformed into a mysterious world of tales and myths,” wrote the poet Vasyl Makhno.^[9]

Awards

• 2016 - The Kosciuszko Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw, Collegium de Artes Liberales
• 2015 - The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards), Honorable Mention^[10]
• 2014 - Nomination for 2015 Pulitzer Prize for The Golden Age Shtetl^[11]
• 2014 -
  National Jewish Book Award in the History category for The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe^[12]
• 2007 - Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Scholar Fellowship
• 2006 - National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship
• 2003—2006 - The Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, Fellow
• 1993 - Research Fellowship, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies (CREES), University of Toronto

Publications

Among his publications are many scholarly articles and such monographs as:

• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2009). Jews in the Russian Army, 1827–1917: Drafted into Modernity.
  ISBN 978-0-52-151573-3
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• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2009). The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew.
  ISBN 978-0-30-013731-6
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• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2010). Lenin's Jewish Question.
  ISBN 978-0-30-015210-4
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• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2015). The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe.
  ISBN 978-0-69-116851-7., which provided the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl
  .
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern;
  ISBN 978-1-90-676420-3
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• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2015). "Context is Everything. Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky". In
  ISBN 978-90-04-29181-2
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• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2015). "On the Other Side of Despair: Cossacks and Jews in Yuri Kosach's The Day of Rage". In Amelia M. Glaser (ed.). Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising.
  ISBN 978-0-80-479382-7
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• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern;
  ISBN 978-0-77-275111-9
  .