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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Йоханан Петровський-Штерн
Born	Ivan Myronovych Petrovsky (1962-04-06)April 6, 1962 (age 63) Kiev,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union (nowKyiv,Ukraine)
Other names	Ivan Petrovsky
Occupation(s)	Historian,Philologist,Academic
Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow University (PhD) Brandeis University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Antony Polonsky Moshe (Murray) Rosman Shaul Stampfer
Academic work
Discipline	Jewish History and Religion
Institutions	Northwestern University Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Warsaw Harvard University

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern^[a] (bornIvan Myronovych Petrovsky,^[b] April 6, 1962) is an Americanhistorian,philologist andessayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution ofCantonism, his critique ofAleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia,Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations ofJorge Luis Borges' works into Russian.^[1] He is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department atNorthwestern University where he teaches Early Modern, Modern and East EuropeanJewish history.

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

He holds aDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) inComparative Literature fromMoscow University and a secondDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) inJewish History fromBrandeis University. He has been a Rothschild Fellow atHebrew University inJerusalem, a Sensibar Visiting Professor atSpertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership inChicago, a Visiting Scholar atÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, aresearch fellow at TheNational Endowment for the Humanities, inPoland, and aFulbright Scholar atKyiv Mohyla Academy inKyiv.^[3]

Petrovsky-Shtern had several solo exhibitions, including such venues as the French Institute in July 2019 inKyiv,Ukraine;^[4] the Ukrainian Institute of America in spring 2015 inNew York City;^[5]Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in February–March 2014 inChicago;^[6] and in November 2012 at the museum of theSpertus 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 theJewish Middle Ages to Hasidic folklore, from the prose ofGabriel Garcia Marquez to theUkrainian 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 poetVasyl Makhno.^[9]

• 2016 - The Kosciuszko Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Warsaw, Collegium de Artes Liberales
• 2015 - The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards), Honorable Mention^[10]
• 2014 - Nomination for 2015Pulitzer Prize forThe Golden Age Shtetl^[11]
• 2014 -National Jewish Book Award in the History category forThe Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe^[12]
• 2007 - Institute for Advanced Studies atHebrew 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

Among his publications are many scholarly articles and suchmonographs as:

• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2009).Jews in the Russian Army, 1827–1917: Drafted into Modernity.Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-52-151573-3.
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2009).The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew.Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-30-013731-6.
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2010).Lenin's Jewish Question.Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-30-015210-4.
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2015).The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe.Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-69-116851-7., which provided the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of theshtetl.
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern;Antony Polonsky, eds. (2014).Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 26: Jews and Ukrainians. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.ISBN 978-1-90-676420-3.
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (2015)."Context is Everything. Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky". InGlenn Dynner; François Guesnet (eds.).Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Brill Pub. pp. 613–616.doi:10.1163/9789004291812_027.ISBN 978-90-04-29181-2.
• 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.Stanford University Press. pp. 182–196.ISBN 978-0-80-479382-7.
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern;Paul Robert Magocsi (2016).Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence.University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-77-275111-9.

• Official page,Northwestern University
• Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan (2 September 2010),"Military Service in Russia",YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
• Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan (Winter 2004)."Hasidism, Havurot, and the Jewish Street".Jewish Social Studies.10 (2):20–54.doi:10.1353/jss.2004.0007.S2CID 161294324.

• 1962 births
• 20th-century American historians
• 21st-century American historians
• Northwestern University faculty
• American historians of religion
• Translators of Jorge Luis Borges
• Living people
• Moscow State University alumni
• Brandeis University alumni
• Writers from Kyiv
• Translators from Spanish
• 21st-century American male writers
• Jewish American academics
• Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
• American essayists

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