Vladislav Davidzon

This is a selection of essays and dispatches from a veteran observer of the development of Ukrainian culture and politics over the course of a decade. The volume deals with the issue of Ukrainian-Jewish relations and its historical legacy in the context of the Russian war against Ukraine. It charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution and focuses on the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a quickly developing Ukrainian political nation.

Vladislav Davidzon studied Intellectual History and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York and holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the Global Campus EMA program in Venice. He has been reporting on Ukrainian Jewish life for Tablet Magazine since 2012; he is the founding editor of The Odessa Review. His essays and reportage have appeared in Foreign Policy, The New Statesman, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, and Bookforum Magazine. Davidzon is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the author of From Odessa With Love (Academica Press, 2021). He lives in Paris.

"Understanding the story that Vladislav Davidzon tells about the role of Ukrainian Jewry over the last decade since the Maidan Revolution, will allow you understand the development of Ukraine as a modern nation-state."

- Claire Berlinski, Author of There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters