Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets

historian, researcher (2021 – present)

In 2011-2012, Vladyslava was a Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Grantee of the Ludmer program by the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization. In 2013-2017 studied at the joint doctoral program of UCU and the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow), working on the dissertation "Jewish industrial elites in Drohobych and Borislav, 1860-1900". Vladyslava received PhD in history in 2017 in Krakow. Vladyslava was an external collegiate at the Doktoratskolleg Galizien program (University of Vienna) in 2013-2016. Fellow of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (March-May 2016). Fulbright Scholar Fellow (2018-2019), Northwestern University, Chicago. Since 2016, she has been teaching courses related to Ukrainian and Jewish history of the 19th century, consumption history, and Hebrew. Senior lecturer at the Department of History of the Ukrainian Catholic University, coordinator of the Jewish Studies program.

At the Center for Urban History, Vladyslava is conducting a research project on the urban elites of Lviv in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The study identifies urban elites by their economic status and status in society and traces the links between them and the specifics of social mobility.

Research interests: Jewish history of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, history of consumption, women's studies, Yiddish and linguistic diversity

  • The Roads of Baal Shem Tov: Reimagining the Carpathians as a Jewish Space in the 20th Century. Euxeinos 2024, no 14 (36): 76–94.
  • Review of Cosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context, ed. by Mirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher. Ab Imperio 2024, no. 1 (2024): 215-219.
  • Jews in Habsburg Galicia: Challenges of Modernity in Palko, Olena and Férez Gil, Manuel (eds.). Ukraine’s Many Faces: Land, People, and Culture Revisited. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2023. Pp. 91-100.
  • Ukrainischer Jude. Eine Geschichte, Die Eigentlich Nicht Hätte Passieren Können in Davies, Franziska (Hrsg.) Die Ukraine in Europa: Traum und Traumaeiner Nation. Wbg Theiss in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2023
  • How to Teach about Ukraine during the War: Notes in the Syllabus Margins, Ab Imperio 2023, no. 1 (2023): 234-242.
  • Looking for Yiddishland: Galicia in the Interwar Yiddish Travelogues/Jews and Slavs vol. 27, Jewish-Slavic Cultural Horizons: Essays on Jewish History and Art in Slavic Lands, Jerusalem-Ljubljana, 2022 Pp. 439-452. 
  • The Importance of Connections: The Rise of Jewish Business Elites in Galicia in Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte.  Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, Volume 60, Issue 2, Pages 473–496.
  • Review article “History as a Story without an End”. Review on “Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz”, Ab Imperio, vol. 2019 no. 2, 2019, p. 115-122.
  • Review article “Elites and Networks: New Approaches for the Research of Jewish Economic History” (in Ukrainian language), Ukraina Moderna, Vol. 25 2018
  • Changing perceptions of the Jewish Economic Role: The Case of the Boryslav Oil Industry in Galizien in Bewegung: Wahrnehmungen – Begegnungen – Verflechtungen, ed.by Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Olena Dvoretska, Nino Gude , Elisabeth Janik-Freis. Vienna University Press, 2017. Pp. 219-233 
  • The exodus from Galician Mitsraim: the unemployment of Jewish workers in Boryslaw – and the rescue campaign of 1897-1899 Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, Kraków (Vol. 12 2014) pp. 59-68 
  • Conflicts in oil industry of the XIXth century Galicia as marker of economic changes.” in Herald of Karazin National University, Kharkiv, 2014. pp. 120-129 (in Ukrainian language)

 

  • “Like a dark yarmulka on the head of the city”: WWI traces in post-war Jewish travelogues from Galicia, ASEEES 2024, Boston, 21–24 November 2024
  • Travelling in Yiddish: Rediscovery of Eastern Jews in Interwar Reportages from Poland and the Soviet Union, Jews in Trans-Imperial Ukraine: Religious, Economic, Cultural, and National Aspects, Tel Aviv University, 2–3 July 2023
  • Haggadah in Ukrainian: Responses of the Jewish community to the full-scale Russian war on Ukraine, Yale Jewish Studies Program, Yale University, 30 March 2023
  • As an Attempt to Overcome Challenges of Digital Archives, Digital Cultures, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, September 2019
  • Search for Yiddish Galicia: Jewish language and identity in interwar travelogues, Zukunft der Sprache, Zukunft der Nation?, University of Augsburg, 24–26 September 2019
  • Jews in Galician oil-business in 1860–1914: social stratification and ethnic solidarity, The Seventeenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6–10 August 2017
  • Challenging the common pattern: migration of Galician Jewish elites at the edge of the 20th century, Jews on the Move, British Association of Jewish Studies, Edinburgh, 10–12 July 2017
  • Importance of connections: rise of Jewish business elites in Galicia, Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Ukraine, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, 7–8 July 2017
  • Changing perceptions of the Jewish economic role: the case of the Boryslav oil industry, Galizien in Bewegung, University of Vienna, 21–22 May 2015
  • Conflicts in Galician oil industry of the 19th century as the source for study of Jewish entrepreneurs’ identities, Jews in Ethnic Mosaic of Ukrainian Lands, Kharkiv, 21–22 May 2014
  • Jewish communities in Drohobych and Boryslav, German–Jewish Culture in Galicia: Influence, Diffusion and Transformation, Krakow, 11–13 June 2013
  • Spring semester 2025 – Migrations and Diversity in Modern East-Central Europe (with Oleksii Chebotarov), Invisible University for Ukraine – Central European University (English)
  • Fall semester 2024 – Economic History of the Holocaust, Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian)
  • Spring semester 2024 – Entangled Borderland: History and Memory of Habsburg Galicia in the Long 19th Century (with Kornelia Konczal and Yaroslav Zhuravlyov), Bielefeld University & Ukrainian Catholic University (English)
  • Spring semester 2024 – Jews of Eastern Europe: History, Culture, Politics, Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian)
  • Fall semester 2023 – Consumption: Global History and Local Contexts, Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian)
  • Spring semester 2023 – Hist 233: The History of East Central Europe: From Empires to Nation-States, University of Illinois Chicago (English)
  • Fall semester 2022 – East-Central European Migrations and Mobilities in the Modern Age (with Oleksii Chebotarov), Ukrainian Catholic University (English)
  • Fall semester 2021 – Jews of Eastern Europe: History, Culture, Politics, Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian)
  • Spring semesters 2020–2024 – History of Ukraine in the Long 19th Century, Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukrainian)