Jewish Odesa: Negotiating Identities and Traditions in Contemporary Ukraine

Source: IPJS

Join us for an event with Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, who will examine the complex and evolving identities of Jewish communities in Ukraine’s historic port city of Odesa as they navigate cultural and religious revival, historical continuity, and the profound changes brought on by the Russian invasion. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum will offer an in-depth exploration of how Jewish Odesans are redefining their sense of belonging in contemporary Ukraine.

A SSEES Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar. This event is co-organised with the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies, the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies and UCL Anthropology with generous support from Sandra and Nathan Kahn.

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Marina Sapritsky-Nahum is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Anthropology department at UCL and a Visiting Fellow in the Anthropology Department at the LSE. Her main research interests are post-Soviet Jewish experiences, migration, religious revival, philanthropy, language and urban culture. She has been conducting ethnographic research in Ukraine and its diaspora since 2005. Currently, she is working with Ukrainian Jewish refugees in Germany and other parts of Europe and the UK and writing more broadly about the effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war on Jewish community life and Ukrainian Jewish heritage.