THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
cordially invites you to a lecture by

Paul Magocsi

(University of Toronto)

The Jews and Other Peoples of Subcarpathian Rus', 1919-1938.

Professor Magocsi's talk will address the place of Jews in the ethnically diverse, contested lands of Subcarpathian Rus in the interwar period, and will be followed by with a brief book talk on his most recent book (co authoredwith Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern of Northwestern University), Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016).

Thursday, May 25 at 3 p.m.

Hanak Room, Monument Building

Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies. He completed his education at Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1972), and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976). He is a member of the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1976). Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia, and on five occasions was historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. In 1996 he was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015). Interested in the history of nationalism, in particular among ethnic groups living in border areas. Has published in the fields of history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography and immigration studies.