The Kyiv Mohyla Center for the Study of History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry (Director – Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Council member Leonid Finberg) and the Duh i Litera publishing house have published a Ukrainian translation of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, first published in 2002 by Oxford University Press and edited by Martin Goodman. The Ukrainian edition is in two volumes and is titled “The Jewish Civilization. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies.”

The publishing of the book was aided by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, the Center for the Study of History and Culture of Eastern European Jewry, and the Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies.

The Oxford Handbook was written by experts in many areas of Jewish studies: Jewish history, literature, religion, and culture, by scholars from the USA, Great Britain, and Israel itself. The book examines nearly every aspect of the Jewish civilization, its history and culture, and is a good representation of the current state of research in Jewish Studies.

This is a unique book in Ukrainian humanities, representing the history of Jewish Studies from its inception to its current state. The reader is given an overview of the breadth of the Jewish civilization: the history of communities in different regions (Muslim countries, the Christian West, Central-Eastern Asia, and others) and during different periods (the Talmudic period, the Middle Ages, the Modern Era, and recent history). The handbook provides an introduction to the history of Jewish languages, the diversity of Jewish literature, Jewish mysticism, theology, Biblical studies. The edition proudly presents articles on history of Jewish art, cinema, music; Jewish sociology, demography, gender studies, and many other disciplines united by the banner of Jewish Studies.