Artist, art historian. and Jewish heritage researcher Dr. Eugeny Kotlyar, a professor at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, was forced to flee from Kharkiv to Lviv after Russian forces bombarded the city. In 2022 he wrote a powerful Have Your Say personal essay for us, in which he described his journey through Ukraine, which took him and his family through Jewish places he had researched and written about for years — former shtetls which had been home to historic Tzaddikim.
Fordham University in New York is currently hosting an exhibition of photographs of one-time shtetls in western Ukraine that Kotlyar has taken over the past two decades.
He has authorized us to post a selection of photographs from the exhibit, as well as excerpts from a long article that he wrote for the exhibition catalogue.
Click here to see his text and photo essay, which we have posted as a “Spotlight” feature
Click here to read his Have Your Say essay from 2022
Here are a just couple of photos from the essay:
