Mazel tov to Dr. Eugeny Kotlyar, the recipient of the 2022 Bezalel, Mordechai, and Nessa Narkiss prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art, presented by the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University!
Kotlyar is a Professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, curator of the Center for Oriental Studies of KSADA, and editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. His main research areas include Jewish art, synagogue wall-painting decorations, and local Kharkiv Jewish history.
He is the author of about 200 publications (articles, catalogs, books, and edited books) and participant of numerous congresses and conferences in Europe, North America, and Israel.
Trained as an artist in monumental arts and as an art historian, he has participated as a designer and stained-glass artist to restore synagogues and Jewish community centers in many cities of Ukraine. He also created exhibitions in several Jewish museums, including the multimedia space of the Drobytsky Yar Memorial in Kharkiv.
The award will be presented at an online ceremony December 22, at 19:00 CET — at which time Eugeny will give a lecture titled “Ukrainian Art Historians and Jewish Art in the Soviet Era: A Deleted Chapter.”
Kotlyar and his family were forced to flee Kharkiv after Russian forces bombarded the city. In May, he wrote a powerful “Have Your Say” personal essay for JHE, titled Safe In Jewish Places: The Journey Of A Jewish Researcher, Now A Refugee In War-Wracked Ukraine.
In it he described his journey through Ukraine, which took him and his family through favorite Jewish places he had researched and written about for years — former shtetls which had been home to historic Tzaddikim.
He reflected on how he somehow felt safe in these places, redolent of Jewish history and heritage, and the prevailing power of the sages.
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