Essays on Jewish History and Art in Slavic Lands: The Editors’ Challenges

The 27th volume of the international series Jews and Slavs, entitled Jewish-Slavic Cultural Horizons: Essays on Jewish History and Art in Slavic Lands, dwells on the political, cultural, literary, and artistic interaction between Jews and Slavic peoples from the Middle Ages to the World War II aftermath. The volume accomplishes a joint cooperative project of the Center for Slavic Languages and Literature of the Hebrew University, the Center for Jewish Art of the same university, and the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana.

The volume’s twenty-one essays elucidate the protection of Jewish movable and immovable heritage and memory, the destiny of Jewish cultural heritage in the Holocaust and its aftermath, an image of a Jew in Christian and Jewish cultures, Jewish ethnography and historiography, history of Jewish art and artists’ biography, Jewish artistic life in Slavic public milieu, the methodology of Jewish art history, the search for “Yiddishland,” and a Jewish contribution to the Slavic cultures. The scholars of diverse backgrounds and research interests from Belarus, Israel, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA contributed to this volume.