The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, together with the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, the Ostrozky Princes Foundation and the family of Yuriy Lutsenko, have released the first book from the new series “Jewish Library”, in which works about Jews and Israel, which have become world bestsellers, will be published for the first time in Ukrainian. This has been announced on Facebook by the President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Boris Lozhkin.
“The first publications in Ukrainian of the world bestsellers about Jews and Israel are a distinctive feature of the entire “Jewish Library” series. Although Jews and Ukrainians are united by more than a thousand-year history of coexistence, and there is a lot of Ukrainian in the State of Israel, few in modern Ukraine are familiar with the history of the Jewish people and their present life. The “Jewish Library” will help eliminate many of these blank spots by talking about Jews and Israel in Ukrainian,” Lozhkin said.
The first book published in the “Jewish Library” is the work of Dr. Daniel Gordis “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn”. In 2016, it won the most prestigious award in the field of literature about Jews, established in the United States in 1944 – the National Jewish Book Prize. “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn” has already been published in English, Japanese, Chinese, Romanian and Russian. The Ukrainian translation of the book of Daniel Gordis has been published in the publishing house “Our Format” for the first time.
Dr. Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President at Shalem College, columnist for the Jerusalem Post and Bloomberg View, is one of the most respected historians of modern Israel. In the book “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn” Gordis was able “to summarize in-depth and fascinatingly all the major aspects that play an important role in understanding the history of Israel – from inception to modern times.”
In the next books the “Jewish Library” will continue to acquaint Ukrainian readers with the history, culture and outstanding representatives of the Jewish people. All works in the series will be published in Ukrainian for the first time.