Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Explained

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Birth Name:Ivan Petrovsky
Birth Date:April 6, 1962
Birth Place:Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality:American
Other Names:Ivan Petrovsky
Occupation:Historian, Philologist, Academic
Discipline:Jewish History and Religion

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born April 6, 1962) is an American historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis Borges' works into Russian.[1] He is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University where he teaches Early Modern, Modern and East European Jewish history.

Biography

Petrovsky-Shtern was born in Kiev in 1962 to the family of Miron Petrovsky (Петровський Мирон Семенович), a Ukrainian philologist. His birth name was Ivan Petrovsky, as attested by his published translations of Jorge Luis Borges.[2]

Scholar

He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Comparative Literature from Moscow University and a second Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Jewish History from Brandeis University. He has been a Rothschild Fellow at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Sensibar Visiting Professor at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago, a Visiting Scholar at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, a research fellow at The National Endowment for the Humanities, in Poland, and a Fulbright Scholar at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kyiv.[3]

Artist

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

Publications

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Petrovsky-Shtern . Yohanan. Northwestern University Faculty. Northwestern University . 10 February 2019.
  2. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. Иван Петровский . Бесконечность, Бог и Борхес . Наука и религия . ru . September 1987.
  3. Web site: Petrovsky-Shtern . Yohanan. Curriculum Vitae . Northwestern University . 10 March 2019.
  4. Web site: Afisha Kyiv . Виставка. Я ні про що не шкодую . July 2019.
  5. Web site: Ukrainian Museum . The Tales and Myths of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern . March 2015.
  6. Web site: Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art . Survival, Spirit, Dreams, Nightmares . February 2014.
  7. Web site: Spertus . Tales, Myths, and Nightmares . November 2012.
  8. Web site: Chanes . Reimagined Jewish Folk Art At The Ukrainian Institute . . March 2016.
  9. Web site: Vasyl Makhno . The Tales and Myths of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern . March 2015.
  10. Web site: Princeton University Press Book Awards. September 5, 2018 . Princeton University.
  11. Web site: Past as Prelude: Polish-Ukrainian Relations for the Twenty-First Century . 1 July 2015 . . 7.
  12. Web site: Past Winners. Jewish Book Council. en. 2020-01-21.

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