Did Jews actually live in Old Rus′? Or is it a historical myth? For a long time, researchers and historians have wrestled with two extreme theories while working with evidence: from completely denying the presence of Jewish communities in early Eastern Europe, to exaggerating their size and role in the ensuing formation of Eastern European Jewry.

The sources presented in Jews in Old Rus′: A Documentary History do not corroborate either of these extreme interpretations of absence or presence. In this book, Alexander Kulik adopts a framework that enables readers to conclude the existence of a Jewish settlement in Rus´.

By bringing together primary sources in Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, and Arabic, this volume provides the definitive scientific answer to one of Eastern Europe’s most debated historical questions.

Poetry from the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian war. What does it mean to defend human presence against a genocidal force that intends to destroy it? Yaryna Chornohuz’s poems are meditations from the front line of this defence. They are acts of testimony to pain and loss in war yet also to the hope that underlies Ukrainian resistance. 

Born during the Ukrainian-Polish War in Galicia (western Ukraine), Omeljan Pritsak grew up in a world of collapsing empires and changing governments. His academic journey started at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, which Pritsak entered in 1936. There, he studied Semitic, Iranian, and Altaic languages and developed an interest in the history of the steppe world.

Several times, the KGB tried to recruit him for intelligence work. His case file was named “Linguist” and stated that “Pritsak is a professor at the University of Hamburg, speaks eighteen languages, [and] has great connections among the Ukrainian emigration in the West.”

Pritsak’s academic rise was remarkable, especially given his social and ethnic background. After wartime upheavals and German captivity, he resumed his studies at the University of Göttingen, where he specialized in Turkology and Iranistics. In 1957, at the age of thirty-eight, he was appointed professor of Turkology at the University of Hamburg; later, he worked at the University of Washington in Seattle as a professor of Turkic and Central Asian History.

In 1964, Pritsak was appointed as a professor of Linguistics and Turkology at Harvard, where he would later co-found the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Pritsak’s life reflects the intellectual and political dramas of twentieth-century Europe—and the making of Ukrainian Studies as a global academic field.

Furious Harvests transports readers to Alex Averbuch’s homeland of eastern Ukraine. Amid the bloody destruction brought by Russia’s war of aggression, the poet toils in fields of memory, reaping lyrics from family archives and mementos to amass testaments to the complex and painful histories of this place and its peoples. A family tree, letters to home, and the faint scent of the grandmother’s dress kept in the back of a closet speak to histories of inter-ethnic violence, WWII forced laborers, and the Holocaust. Mixing dialects, styles, registers, and voices, Furious Harvests—presented in a bilingual edition—defiantly cries out in its rage and longing toward reconciliation of the self and other.

The biblical image of David and Goliath captures fittingly the nature of the war that Russia, the world’s largest country by surface area, unleashed on neighboring Ukraine, a country that— while still the largest on the European continent—is almost thirty times smaller and has only over a quarter of Russia’s population. Yet Ukraine’s stubborn resistance proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, more populous, and better equipped enemy, even despite Russia’s threats of nuclear apocalypse should Ukraine refuse to submit and the West interfere. This volume shows that history can help reveal the reasons for Ukraine’s resolve and success both on the battlefield and in the public arena.

Collected here for the first time are short essays, commentaries, and interviews written and given by Serhii Plokhy, the world’s preeminent scholar of Ukrainian history, on the eve and during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Plokhy draws our attention to the unique nature of the largest war in Europe since the end of World War II as its events become part of history.

This collection of poems transforms the personal author’s loss into Ukraine’s collective experience. Since the outbreak of war in Donetsk in 2014, Iya Kiva has become an essential voice for the country’s internally displaced people, creating new metaphors for uncertainty and survival.

Originally writing in Russian, Kiva now writes in Ukrainian, reflecting her linguistic shift and her layered Ukrainian, Russian, and Jewish heritage. Her work confronts the trauma of war while offering lyrical expressions of resilience, love, and hope for a united Ukraine.

A remarkable two-book volume: Diary of A Hunger Striker, the first-hand account of celebrated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, jailed unfairly as a political prisoner, during his 145-day-long hunger strike in a Russian prison; and Four and a Half Steps, his newest collection of short stories. Sentsov’s prison diary begins three days into his indefinite hunger strike, as he calls for the release of all political prisoners in Russia. Frank, sharp, and detailed, the diary recounts day after day of observations and thoughts about his daily life, from interactions with guards, police officers, good and bad, to his thoughts on fellow writers and the world outside his cell.

Best Literary Translations redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors.

This book explores transitional post-Soviet cultural consciousness in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The main themes in the book are postcolonial traumas in relation to past empires and old historiographical narratives; post-totalitarian consciousness, which is characterized by sociocultural ruptures, postcolonial resentment, and intergenerational crises; and post-memory as a means of overcoming historical and familial traumas. Against the backdrop of the Chornobyl catastrophe, the book examines the meeting of different generations and views the clown Verka Serduchka as a mediator between the transition from the Soviet to the post-Soviet world. 

The book focuses on three significant Ukrainian novels written between the two Maidans: The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko (2009), Voroshilovgrad by Serhiy Zhadan (2010), and Notes of a Ukrainian Madman by Lina Kostenko (2010).

Set during the early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion, Rafeyenko’s play explores survival, identity, and connection in a community trapped between Bucha and Borodianka.

With echoes of Ukrainian and global literary voices, Signals of Being is a dramatic meditation on war and belonging.