The author:

Vladislav Davidzon studied Intellectual History and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York and holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights from the Global Campus EMA program in Venice. He has been reporting on Ukrainian Jewish life for Tablet Magazine since 2012; he is the founding editor of The Odessa Review. Davidzon’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, and Bookforum Magazine. Davidzon is a fellow at the Atlantic Council and the author of From Odessa With Love (Academica Press, 2021). He lives in Paris.

The author of the foreword:


Bernard-Henri Lévy is, according to The Boston Globe in 2015, “perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today.”