DEAR COLLEAGUES,
The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies (www.holocaust.kiev.ua) is pleased to announce Голокост і сучасність. Студії в Україні і світі [Holocaust and Modernity. Studies in Ukraine and the World] interdisciplinary scholarly journal and welcomes the submission of manuscripts for editorial consideration.
THEMATIC AND CONCEPTUAL FOCUS OF THE JOURNAL
The journal is conceived as an open academic forum that promotes scholarly discussion on the implications of the Holocaust, genocide, and other instances of mass violence.
The journal will be published twice a year in Ukrainian and Russian with summaries in English.
The journals agenda is aimed at accomplishing the following tasks:
to stimulate in-depth analysis of various aspects of the Holocaust related to the Ukrainian territory; to compare and contrast the Holocaust in Ukraine to other regions of the former USSR, Eastern and Western Europe; to examine specific features of the Holocaust in various localities of Ukraine;
to disseminate and advance research based on the previously unavailable or little-known sources stored in Ukrainian and foreign archival depositories as well as non-conventional sources such as testimonies, memoirs, and diaries;
to promote multidisciplinary approach and encourage the participation of experts in the fields of sociology, political studies, philosophy, psychology, and humanities to contribute to discussion and research;
to foster comparative and conceptual analysis of various aspects of the Holocaust and other genocides, particularly in the field of the theory and history of nationalism, anti-Semitism, and the role and place of the Jewish question in European cultural and historical processes that preceded the Holocaust and transpired after it.
MATERIALS, STRUCTURE, AND RUBRICATION OF JOURNAL
The journal includes the following sections:
Research. Research articles exploring in detail the topic declared by the author and examining various aspects of the Holocaust.
Research Notes. Brief articles containing statement of problem and the analysis of ways of its academic development.
Documental sources. Archival sources not published before and other primary sources (testimonies, memoirs etc.).
Book reviews. Reviews of recently published books on the subject.
Bibliography. List of the works (monographs, collective researches, articles etc.) published recently in Ukraine and abroad on the subject of the journal.
Events. Reports on recent academic events (conferences etc.) in Ukraine and abroad.
PREPARING MATERIALS FOR PUBLICATION
DISTRIBUTION OF THE JOURNAL
Thematic priorities and publication policy are the subjects of consideration by the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with the International editorial council and the Executive editorial board.
International editorial council consists of:
Dr. Ilya Altman (Russia)
Dr. Karel Berkhoff (Netherlands)
Dr. Dieter Pohl (Germany)
Dr. Alexander Prusin (USA)
Dr. Aron Shneer (Israel)
Dr. Anton Weiss-Wendt (Norway)
Executive editorial board consists of:
Dr. Vladislav Hrynevich (Kiev, Ukraine)
Vitaly Nakhmanovich (Kiev, Ukraine)
Dr. Zhanna Kovba (Kiev, Ukraine)
Dr. Anatoly Podolsky (Kiev, Ukraine)
Pre-selection of available materials and preparing for publication is carried out by the Executive editorial board. All the printed materials and contributions supplemented by cover letters should be submitted to executive editor:
Mikhail Tyaglyy
Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies
ul. Kutuzova 8, of. 109
Kiev, 01011
Ukraine
For queries:
Phones: +380-44-2859030; +380-50-3933245
For submitting the electronic documents:
holocaust_studies@sf.ukrtel.net , uhcenter@binet.com.ua
Submission involves the tacit assurance that the material has not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
Materials preliminary approved for publication will be forwarded for peer-reviewing to academic experts in the field concerned; after peer-reviewing the author is obliged to finalize the text so that it could be properly edited and proofread afterwards.
Authors of book reviews will receive a free copy of the book upon concluding a formal agreement with the journal.
All authors will receive two complimentary copies of the journal issue in which their work appears.
Copies of the journal are distributed through the network of educational and research institutions and public libraries. Its electronic version in PDF-format will also be free for downloading from the web-site of the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies at www.holocaust.kiev.ua . Fresh issue of the journal with the Contents and Summaries in English can be find at the following location:
http://www.holocaust.kiev.ua/bulletin/soderz/soderz3.htm
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