Consider My Inmost Thoughts: Essays, Lectures, and Interviews on Ukrainian Matters at the Turn of the Century: 75 (Ukrainian Voices) - Softcover

Zissels, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3838219759 ISBN 13: 9783838219752

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon, 2025

Synopsis

The reflections and deliberations in this book represent different aspects of the publishing, scholarly and media activity of the former Soviet political prisoner and Jewish-Ukrainian public intellectual, as well as co-initiator of Ukraine’s First of December Group, Joseph Zissels, over the past years. The book starts with outlines of Zissels’s self-understanding and comprehension of his involvement in the dissident movement. Based on his own research, the author offers his model of seeing modern Ukraine through the prism of the coordinates basic to the European system of values. The main themes of the book’s articles, lectures and interviews are civil society, identity formation, social tolerance, and Jewishness. The book’s title has been chosen, by the author, from Psalm 5, Verse 2 of the Complete Jewish Bible: “Give ear to my words, Adonai, consider my inmost thoughts.”

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About the Authors

Joseph Zissels is Co-President of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities (VAAD) of Ukraine, Chairman of the General Council of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, and Executive Vice President of the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine in Kyiv. In Soviet times, he was a member of the human rights movement, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and a political prisoner.

Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Edition details

• Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838219759
• ISBN 13: 9783838219752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 564