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Irina Astashkevich was born in Moscow. Valedictorian in
the Project Judaica, a joint project of the Russian State
University for the Humanities, Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, she holds an
MA degree in History and Archival Sciences. In April 2013, she
received a PhD from Brandeis University, since when she has been a
research associate at Tauber Institute for the Study of European
Jewry.
“Astashkevich’s study opens new and urgent lines of thinking in the historiography of interethnic violence in Eastern Europe and Ukraine. By grappling with the ways sexual violence co-constituted antisemitic violence during the Ukrainian War of Independence, Astashkevich gestures toward the ways mass rape and sexual violence have been foundational to the trauma of the region and to the generational trauma of Ukraine’s far-flung Jews. Her book is one of the most theoretically inflected pieces of feminist scholarship to deal with the Ukrainian War of Independence. Because of that, Astashkevich helps us to understand the modernizing forces that worked to bring mass rape into relationship with genocidal violence. This stimulating monograph the deserves attention of anyone interested in Jewish history, antisemitism, sexual violence, Ukrainian history, gender history, and the history of atrocity.” —Meghann Pytka, Northwestern University, H-Poland
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