Yevhen Horb

Erased Community: Jewish Community of Northern Azov Region under Russian Aggression

Yevhen Horb, Mariupol State University

 

Yevhen Horb (b. 1989) is a historian, translator, and PhD student at Mariupol State University (Kyiv, Ukraine). His dissertation research focuses on the development of cultural studies in Poland and Germany at the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries. After leaving Mariupol at the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine, he has been living and working in Cherkasy. In 2022, he was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and the Centre for Urban History (Lviv). In 2023, he worked on an individual project as part of the CEFRES team (Prague, Czech Republic). He is the author of 7 monographs on the history of the 17^th–19^th centuries and more than 40 articles in scientific journals in Ukrainian, Polish, and English.

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Project Description

The research project “Erased Community: Jewish Community of Northern Azov Region under Russian Aggression” aims to draw the attention of the European and international community to the pressing issues of the Jewish population in the Northern Azov Region, part of which was forced to leave their homes as a result of the full-scale invasion by Russian troops, and part of the community ended up under occupation, under the threat of complete assimilation and loss of its ethnocultural identity. The proposed research project consists of three parts, which represent three consecutive stages of collection, processing, and presentation of materials illustrating the life of the Jewish community of the Northern Azov Region during the war: “Voices of War” (oral stories of the Jewish refugees), “Human Dimension of War” (infographic of the life of the Jewish community of the Northern Azov Region under Russian aggression), “Erased Community” (open Book of Memory of the Jewish population of the region).