Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising, A.Glaser

Full interview with Prof. Amelia M. Glaser on "Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising", by Amelia M. Glaser (editor), University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA, 14 February 2017.

- 1:13 Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, Berestechko
- 1:42 Willem Hondius Portrait of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (engraving), 1651
Front matter and portrait of Khmelnytsky from Bantysh-Kamenskii’s History of Little Russia (Moscow, 1822)
Mykola Ivasiuk (1865-1930?). Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Хмельницький) Entering Kyiv, 1912
Modern references to Khmelnytsky uprisings (Хмельниччина). I wanted to look at the history of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Богдан Хмельницький) "face on". In Jewish stories it is assumed that Khmelnytsky is an evil figure of biblical proportions whereas in Ukrainian tradition Khmelnytsky carved out the Ukrainian territory and a nation builder tantamount to a George Washington
- 3:10 Analyze the stories of Khmelnytsky within their own context without whitewashing the history of Jewish-Ukrainian animosity
- 3:55 Book addresses stereotypes; Khmelnytsky is a charismatic figure: a hero in one tradition and a villain in another; Bohdan Khmelnytsky has a very complicated role in Polish history and Russian historical memory
- 4:40 Struggle with blanket assumption in Jewish cultural tradition that the only way to look at Ukraine and Ukrainians was through the lens of pogroms; negative stereotypes of Jews
- 5:44 Nathan of Hanover's treatment of Khmelnytsky
- 6:58 Ukrainian scholars have been reading and thinking about Jewish study scholars
- 7:38 Approaches to literature as a reworking of memory theory, theory of collective memory
- 8:20 Khmelnytsky Uprising (Хмельниччина)
- 9:24 Nikolai Minsky, The Siege of Tulchin (1888)
- 11:40 Kishinev pogrom (Кишинівський погром) (קעשענעוו פאגראם), current day Chișinău, Moldova
- 13:13 Frank Sysyn helped to make the book relevant to Ukrainian readership; George Grabowicz; Taras Koznarsky
- 14:32 Online bibliograpahy on Bohdan Khmelnytsky will be published soon
- 15:15 Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Second Class; Colonel Zalman Abramovich Frenkel (1908, Konotop-1986, Moscow), awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Second Class by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, April 28, 1945
- 16:16 Eastern Europe is dear to me, Russia is dear to my heart, Ukraine is dear to my heart
- 17:55 Very complex relationship between Jews and Ukrainians
- 18:27 Literary scholarship helps us to be comfortable with discomfort
- 22:48 Resist the temptation to look at single language literary studies and fields, scholars have to read across borders; Historical relationship between Jews and Ukrainians is fascinating, it is a case study for co-existence
- 25:15 Banderivets (Бандерівець), Zhydobanderivets (Жидовандерівець)

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