Victoria Khiterer

Victoria Khiterer (born 1968) is Professor of history at Millersville University, Pennsylvania, Adjunct Professor at Gratz College, and a founding member of the Academic Council of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, Ukraine

Khiterer is an author and editor of eight books and over a hundred articles on Ukrainian, Russian and Modern European Jewish History. The focus of Khiterer's research is the history of Jews in Kiev and Ukraine. Her book "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue University Press, 2025) discusses the Babyn Yar massacre and its aftermath, and examines the commemoration and memorialization of the Holocaust at Babyn Yar, Kyiv.

Khiterer's monograph "Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel? A History of the Jews in Kiev before February 1917" (Academic Studies Press, 2016) describes the history of Jews in Kiev, from the tenth century until the collapse of the monarchy in Russia.

Khiterer is an author of a book and several articles on Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire and during the civil war in Ukraine. Her book Jewish Pogroms in Kiev during the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920. Khiterer has published several articles on Jewish-gentile relations in the Soviet Union, anti-Semitism, the contributions of Jews to Soviet popular culture, and Jewish religious life.

Khiterer edited three volumes of Millersville University conference proceedings: "Aftermath of the Holocaust and Genocides" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020),; "Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America: New Aspects and Dilemmas" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), and "The Holocaust: Memories and History" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Provided by Wikipedia