Dear colleagues!

The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies is pleased to announce interdisciplinary scholarly journal Голокост і сучасність. Студії в Україні і світі [Holocaust and Modernity. Studies in Ukraine and the World] and welcomes the submission of manuscripts for editorial consideration.

THEMATIC AND CONCEPTUAL FOCUS

The journal is conceived as an open academic forum that promotes scholarly discussion on the implications of the Holocaust, genocide, and other instances of mass violence. The journal is published twice a year in Ukrainian and Russian with summaries in English.
The journal's agenda is
- " to stimulate in-depth analysis of various aspects of the Holocaust on Ukrainian territory; to compare and contrast the experience of the Holocaust in Ukraine to that in other regions of the former USSR, Eastern Europe and Western Europe; to examine specific features of the Holocaust in various localities of Ukraine;
- " to disseminate and advance research based on previously unavailable or little-known sources stored in Ukrainian and foreign archival repositories as well as non-conventional sources such as testimonies, memoirs, and diaries;
- " to promote a multidisciplinary approach and to encourage the participation of experts in the fields of sociology, political science, psychology, and the humanities to contribute to discussion and research;
- " to foster comparative and conceptual analysis of various aspects of the Holocaust and other genocides, particularly in the theory and history of nationalism and anti-Semitism, and of the role and place of the "Jewish question" in European culture and history preceding and following the Holocaust.

ORGANIZATION

The journal includes the following sections:
Research articles exploring various aspects of the Holocaust;
Research notes discussing approaches to narrowly defined specific questions;
Documentary sources not published before;
Reviews of recently published books;
Bibliography of recent works on the Holocaust, with the special emphasis on Ukraine;
Announcements of recent and upcoming academic events in Ukraine and abroad.

MANAGEMENT

Publication policy is established by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with an International Advisory Board and the Editorial Board.

International Advisory Board

Dr. Ilya Altman (Russian Holocaust Foundation, Moscow, Russia)
Dr. Karel Berkhoff (Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Dr. Kiril Feferman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Dr. Dieter Pohl (Institut fur Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Germany)
Dr. Alexander Prusin (New Mexico Technology Institute, Socorro, New Mexico, USA)
Dr. Anton Weiss-Wendt (Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo, Norway)

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Olena Ivanova (I. Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Dr. Zhanna Kovba (National Technical University "KPI", Kyiv, Ukraine)
Prof. Dr. Oleksandr Lysenko (Institute of History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Vitaly Nakhmanovich (Civic Committee "Babyn Yar", Kyiv, Ukraine)
Dr. Anatoly Podolsky (Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Mikhail Tyaglyy (Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Kiev, Ukraine), executive editor

Acceptance and editing carried out by the Editorial Board in cooperation with the International Advisory Board. Contributions should be submitted with a cover letter to the following address:

Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies
vul. Kutuzova 8, of. 109
Kyiv, 01011
Ukraine
For queries:
Phones: +380-44-2859030; +380-50-3933245
Submission of the electronic documents:
holocaust_studies@sf.ukrtel.net ; uhcenter@binet.com.ua

Submission involves the tacit assurance that the material has not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
Articles are peer-reviewed by academic experts in the field; after peer-review author may be asked for revisions.
Authors of book reviews will receive a free copy of the book.

Authors receive two complimentary copies of the journal issue in which their work appears.
Copies of the journal are distributed through the network of educational and research institutions and public libraries. Its electronic version in PDF-format is free for downloading from the web-site of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies at www.holocaust.kiev.ua