Between the Bowery and the East River: Germans, Jews, and Ukrainians

The Ukrainian Museum seeks to bring our communities together by highlighting the shared multi-cultural history of our neighborhood. Join us for a seminal presentation by author, artist, and professor of political science, Alexander J. Motyl, who will discuss how waves of German, Jewish, and Ukrainian immigrants interacted with New York City’s geography, economy, politics, and culture to shape the Lower East Side and its gentrified progeny, the East Village. Prof. Motyl’s visual presentation will be followed by a Q&A and light refreshments. More information and tickets are available on Eventbrite.

Alexander J. Motyl (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1984) is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark, a writer, and a painter. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, he is the author of eight academic books, numerous articles, and eleven novels. His first collection of poetry, Vanishing Points, appeared in 2016; his second, Worries, is forthcoming. His artwork has been shown in solo and group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Westport, and Toronto and is part of the permanent collection of the Ukrainian Museum in New York and the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Winnipeg.