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.

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.

This study situates the stance of the United States toward Ukraine in the broader context of international relations. It fills an important lacuna in existing scholarship and policy discourse by focusing on the complex trilateral—rather than simply bilateral—dynamics among the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia, in 1991–2016.

This book brings together for the first time documentary evidence and declassified materials dealing with policy deliberation, retrospective articles authored by former policymakers, and formal memoirs by erstwhile senior officials. The study is also supplemented by open-ended interviews with former and returning officials.

This timely book is the first English-language biography of the doctrine’s founder, Dmytro Dontsov (1883–1973), the “spiritual father” of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Organizing his research of the period around Dontsov’s life, Erlacher has written a global intellectual history of Ukrainian integral nationalism from late imperial Russia to postwar North America, with relevance for every student of the history of modern Europe and the diaspora.