‘Is there a Jewish Narrative of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022-2026?’ — Anna Shternshis

Based on in-depth interviews with Ukrainian Jews both within and outside Ukraine, the presentation examines whether being Jewish affected how people experienced the invasion.

Anna Shternshis is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair in Jewish Studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 (Indiana UP, 2006), When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (Oxford UP, 2017), Jews in the Soviet Union: Post-War Life, Hopes, and Fears, 1945-1953 (NYU Press, 2026) and co-author (together with Oleg Budnitsky, David Engel and Gennady Estraikh) of Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: War, Conquest, and Catastrophe, 1939–1945 (New York UP, 2022).