Dr. Victoria Khiterer

Courses

• HIST 102: Europe and the World, 1789 to Present     
• SSCI 202H: Western Intellectual Tradition II     
• HIST 241: Imperial Russia
• HIST 242: Soviet Union
• HIST 279: Modern Jewish History
• HIST 308: Topics: Ukrainian Revolution and Russian Solution
• HIST 340: Twentieth Century Europe
• HIST 342: Hitler and Nazism
• HIST 405: Senior Seminar
• HIST 507: Readings in Modern Europe, 1914 to the Present
• HIST 511: The Holocaust 
• HIST 511:  Ukrainian-Russian Relations

Recent Publications

Books:

Editor.  Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 292 pp.

Editor.  Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America:  New Aspects and Dilemmas (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), 240 pp.

Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?  A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917 (Boston:  Academic Studies Press, 2016), 492 pp.

Jewish Pogroms in Kiev during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 (Lewiston, Lampeter:  The Edwin Mellen Press, 2015), 144 pp.

Editor. The Holocaust: Memories and History. (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 415 pp.

Chapters in Books and Conference Proceedings:

"Not so Silent:  Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Kiev, 1945-1970s," in Leonard J. Greenspoon, ed.,  Authorities and Dissent in Jewish Life.  Studies in Jewish Civilization, Vol. 31 (West Lafayette, Indiana:  Purdue University Press, 2020), 131-146.

"Life in the Ruins:  Jewish National Revival in Kiev after the Holocaust (1944-48),"  in Victoria Khiterer and Erin Magee, eds. Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), 2-37. 

“Kiev Jews in the Early Twentieth Century:  National Identity and Culture,”  Jews and Non-Jews: Memories and Interactions from the Perspective of Cultural Studies, eds. Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, Jacek Partyka (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Academic Research, 2015), 13-28. 

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

“In the Shadow of Babyn Yar:  Anatoly Kuznetsov's Eyewitness Account of the Betrayal and Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust in Kyiv,” Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 2023-01-20 (online), DOI:  10.1515/eehs-2022-0013. 

“Unwelcome Return Home:  Jews, anti-Semitism and the Housing Problem in Post-war Kyiv,” Eastern European Holocaust Studies, https://doi.org/10.1515/eehs-2022-0001, Published online in October 2022. 

“Jewish Education in the Ukrainian People’s Republic,” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Volume 38, no. 3–4 (2021):  271-295. 

“The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine:  An introduction and observations on a neglected topic” Nationalities Papers, 48, no. 3 (2020):  460-475. 

“How Jews Gained Their Education in Kiev,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 30 (2018):  155-179. 

“Seekers of Happiness:  Jews and Jazz in the Soviet Union,” Kultura Popularna, 1, no. 51 (2017):  26-50.