Come to This Court and Cry: Memory and Justice in Ukraine, with Linda Kinstler '13

What will justice look like for Ukraine? What forms of judicial, cultural, and political reckoning can be pursued while the war is still ongoing? What does it feel like to live amid the wreckage of the war, and how are Ukrainians already working to rebuild their nation? Linda Kinstler '13 has reported from Ukraine for The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, The Atlantic, and more. Her recent book, Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, investigates the long fight for justice in Eastern Europe after World War II and explores the many lingering gaps that the world-historical trials of the 20th century left unresolved. Today, as international prosecutors converge upon Ukraine to collect war crimes evidence for use in future trials, these world-historical precedents are being re-considered in pursuit of a form of justice still-to-come. Ukrainians are impatient for victory--and impatient for vengeance--yet everyday life must go on. As Ukrainians return to their destroyed homes and towns, the immediate, painful memories of the recent past are being submerged to make room for imaginations of a hopeful, peaceful future.

Linda Kinstler '13 is a contributing writer to The Economist and Jewish Currents
magazine. Her award-winning journalism also appears in The New York Times, The
Washington Post, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her first book, Come to This Court and
Cry: How the Holocaust Ends was published by Public Affairs in August 2022 and is
being translated into five languages. She is currently a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UC
Berkeley and previously studied as a Marshall Scholar in the UK.

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