Leonid Finberg

Leonid Finberg studied in at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since 1997, he is chief-editor of the Dukh i Litera publishing house and since 2007 the director of the Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East-European Jews of the Nationa University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Previously, he held lectures as Invited Professor at the Geneva University and at the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, was the director of the Jewish Studies Institute, a leading sociologist at the Sociology Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a board member of the International Renaissance Fund responsible for the civil society, and the director of the Jewish Studies Institute. Finberg is a member of the PEN Club Ukraine. He is the compiler and editor of a number of books, including: Essays on History and Culture of the Jews of Ukraine (Kyiv, Dukh i Litera, 2008), the art catalogue Kultur-Lige: Artistic Avant-Garde of 1910s and 1920s (Kyiv, Dukh i Litera, 2007), and Book Graphics of the Kultur-Lige Artists (Kyiv, Dukh i Litera, 2011), Jewish Civilization. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (Kyiv, Dukh i Litera, 2012), Maidan. Testimonies (2015), Maidan. Testimonies. Medical support. International solidarity (2018). So far, Finberg has more than 80 publications.