Khiterer is an author and editor of six books and over a hundred articles on Russian and Eastern European Jewish History. The focus of Khiterer's research is the history of Jews in Kiev and Ukraine. Khiterer's major monograph “Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917” describes ten centuries of the history of Jews in Kiev, from the tenth century until the collapse of the monarchy in Russia.
Khiterer is an author of a book and several articles on Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and during the civil war in Ukraine. Khiterer has published several articles on Jewish-gentile relations in the Soviet Union, anti-Semitism, the contribution of Jews in Soviet popular culture, and Jewish religious life. Khiterer edited two volumes of Millersville University conference proceedings: “The Holocaust: Memories and History” and “Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas.”
Writing
Books
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.
Dokumenty po evreiskoi istorii XVI-XX vekov v kievskikh arkhivakh. [Jewish Documents in Kiev's Archives, (Sixteenth – Twentieth Century)] (Moscow, Kiev: Gesharim Publishing House and Institute of Jewish Studies, 2001), 223 pp.
Dokumenty, sobrannye Evreiskoi Istoriko-arheographicheskoi komissiei Vseukrainskoi Akademii Nauk. [Collection of Documents of the Historical-Archaeographical Commission of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences]. (Jerusalem, Kiev: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gesharim Publishing House, 1999), 299 pp.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Holodomor and Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine: An introduction and observations on a neglected topic” Nationalities Papers, 48, no. 3 (2020).
“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.
“The October 1905 Pogroms and the Russian Authorities,” Nationalities Papers. The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 43, no. 5 (2015): 788–803.
“Jews in Soviet Cinema: The Film Commissar by Aleksandr Askol’dov,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 33.1 (2014): 1-29.
“We Did Not Recognize Our Country: The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine Before and After World War II (1937-1947),” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 26 (2014): 361–379.
“The Jewish Songs of Leonid Utesov,” On the Jewish Street, 2, no. 1 (2012): 1–48.
On the Jewish Street, 1, no. 2 (2011): 1-25.
“The Brodsky Sugar Kings: Jewish Industrialists, Philanthropists and Community Leaders of Late Imperial Russia” Jews and Slavs, 19 (2008): 25–41.- “Jewish Life in Kyiv at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Ukraina Moderna, 10, (2006): 74–94.
Babi Yar or Babyn Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing some 33,771 Jews. Other victims of massacres at the site included Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani people. It is estimated that a total of between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar during the German occupation.
A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire. Similar attacks against Jews which also occurred at other times and places retrospectively became known as pogroms. Sometimes the word is used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on the specific incident, at times leading to, or culminating in, massacres.
The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy which ended after the Partitions of Poland in the 18th century. During World War II there was a nearly complete genocidal destruction of the Polish Jewish community by Nazi Germany and its collaborators of various nationalities, during the German occupation of Poland between 1939 and 1945, called the Holocaust. Since the fall of communism in Poland, there has been a renewed interest in Jewish culture, featuring an annual Jewish Culture Festival, new study programs at Polish secondary schools and universities, and the opening of Warsaw's Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists was a Ukrainian nationalist organisation established in 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, radical nationalist right-wing groups. The OUN was the largest and one of the most important far-right Ukrainian organizations operating in the interwar period on the territory of the Second Polish Republic.
The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus'. Important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, arose there. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes Europe's third-largest and the world's fifth-largest.
Controversies of the Polish–Soviet War, fought in 1919–20, concerning the behaviour of the military forces and crimes they committed. Each side charged the other with violations of international law in an effort to sway public opinion in the West, which was felt to be important for both sides.
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
Antisemitism in Ukraine has been a historical issue in the country, particularly in the twentieth century. The history of the Jewish community of the region dates back to the era when ancient Greek colonies existed in it. A third of the Jews of Europe previously lived in Ukraine between 1791 and 1917, within the Pale of Settlement. The large concentration of Jews in this region historically made them an easy target for anti-Jewish actions and pogroms.
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 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. 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.
The anti-Jewish violence in Central and Eastern Europe following the retreat of Nazi German occupational forces and the arrival of the Soviet Red Army – during the latter stages of World War II – was linked in part to postwar anarchy and economic chaos exacerbated by the Stalinist policies imposed across the territories of expanded Soviet republics and new satellite countries. The anti-semitic attacks had become frequent in Soviet towns ravaged by war; at the marketplaces, in depleted stores, in schools, and even at state enterprises. Protest letters were sent to Moscow from numerous Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian towns by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee involved in documenting the Holocaust.
The Holocaust in Ukraine was the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the East of Reichskommissariat Ukraine, in the Transnistria Governorate and Northern Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II. The listed areas are currently parts of Ukraine.
Babi Yar, a ravine near Kyiv, was the scene of possibly the largest shooting massacre during the Holocaust. After the war, commemoration efforts encountered serious difficulty because of the policy of the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a number of memorials have been erected. The creation of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center was initiated in 2016.
Oleh Joshua Kozerod is a political scientist and history researcher. He came from a Polish aristocratic family Kosyrod de Pyser coat of arms.
Antisemitism in the Russian Empire included numerous pogroms and the designation of the Pale of Settlement from which Jews were forbidden to migrate into the interior of Russia, unless they converted to the Russian Orthodox state religion.
Poems about Babi Yar commemorate the massacres committed by the Nazi Einsatzgruppe during World War II at Babi Yar, in a ravine located within the present-day Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. In just one of these atrocities – taking place over September 29–30, 1941 – 33,771 Jewish men, women and children were killed in a single Einsatzgruppe operation.
The history of the Jews in Kyiv stretches from the 10th century CE to the 21st century, and forms part of the history of the Jews in Ukraine.
Monsignor Waldemar Chrostowski is a Polish Catholic priest, Bible scholar, and theologian. He is a professor of theology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. Chrostowski has attracted attention for propagating antisemitic and homophobic views.
The Kiev pogrom of 1881 lasted for three days. It began on 26 April, 1881 the city of Kiev itself and spread to villages in the surrounding region. The sporadic violence continued until winter. The Kiev pogrom is considered the worst of the pogroms that swept through south-western Imperial Russia in 1881. Pogroms continued on through the summer, spreading across the territory of modern-day Ukraine including Podolia Governorate, Volyn Governorate, Chernigov Governorate, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, and others. Notably, the tsarist authorities made no attempt to stop it. However, in his detailed study Russians, Jews and the Pogroms of 1881-1882, John D. Klier, professor of modern Jewish History at University College, London who spent almost his entire academic life researching Jewish life in Russian controlled territory, came to the conclusion that, far from passively allowing the pogroms to take place, the Tsarist government actively and repeatedly issued orders to the police, and military to suppress them. They also published proclamations forbidding anti-Jewish riots.
The Battle of Lwów was a World War II battle for the control over the Soviet city of Lwów between the Red Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the hiking groups OUN.
Yehupetz is a fictional town in the Russian Empire, a portrayal of Kyiv in Sholem Aleichem stories. It is a transitional place between the classical shtetl and a modern city.
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