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Curriculum Vitae Brian Horowitz CURRICULUM VITAE BRIAN HOROWITZ 312 C Jones Hall Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 [email protected] 504 861 7949 (h), 504 862 3075 (w) Employment 2003-present Sizeler Family Chair of Jewish Studies Dept., Tulane University (2012-present) Full Professor (2008) Chairman of the Jewish Studies Dept. (2012-present) Director of the Jewish Studies Program (2003-2010) Chairman of the German and Slavic Department (2007-2010) Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies (2003-08) 2000-2002 Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Nebraska 1994-2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Nebraska 1993-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Nebraska 2010 Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Education 1993 Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley Dissertation: “M. O. Gershenzon and the Intellectual Life of Russia's Silver Age.” Committee: Hugh McLean, Irina Paperno, Nicholas Riasanovsky. 1986 M. A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley 1983 B. A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, New York University Books Russian Idea-Jewish Presence: Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life, Academic Publishers, 2013. Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia, University of Washington Press, 2009. Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Russia. Slavica Publishers, 2009. The Myth of Alexander Pushkin in Russia's Silver Age: M. O. Gershenzon-Pushinist. Northwestern University Press, 1997. Republished in Russian translation: Mikhail Gershenzon Pushkinist: Pushkinskii mif v serebrianom veke russkoi literatury, Moscow: Minuvshee, 2004. Edited Books Uneasy Relations, Russia/Israel, Culture and Politics, co-edited with Shai Ginsburg, Slavica Press, 2013. The Jews of Eastern Europe: Studies in Jewish Civilization, vol. 16, co-edited L. J. Greenspoon, R. A. Simkins, and B. Horowitz, introduction by B. Horowitz, Creighton University Press, 2005. Articles in Journals “Eastern Europe in the Mind of American Jews or How the Fiddler On the Roof Got Made,” Russkie everi v Amerike, 8, expected 2013. “A Mission in the Diaspora: Simon Dubnov’s Jewish Autonomism,” Menorah Journal, 78, Winter/Spring 2013 (on-line). “The Russian Roots of Simon Dubnov’s Life and Thought [Hebrew],” Zion, 3, 2012, 341–358. “Reflektsiia i revolutsiia: pozitsiia M. O. Gershenzona v ‘Perepiske iz dvukh uglov’,” Judaica Rossica-Rossica Judaica. 1, 2012, 93-107. “Semyon An-sky-Dialogic Writer,” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations, vol. 24, 2011, 131-149. “Integration and its Discontents: Mikhail Morgulis and the Ideology of Jewish Integration in Russia” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations, vol. 22, 2009, 291- 315. (appears in Empire Jews) “Both Crisis and Continuity: A Reinterpretation of Late-Czarist Russian Jewry,” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta, 11, no. 29, 2006, 89-112. “Russian-Zionist Cultural Cooperation, 1916-1918: Leib Jaffe and the Russian Intelligentsia,” Jewish Social Studies, 13, no 1, Fall 2006, 87-109. (appears in Empire Jews) “A. S. Pushkin’s Shifting Poetics: Deceptive Subtexts in ‘Domik v Kolomne,’ Pushkin Journal, 8-9, 2005-06, 45-60. “Hail to Assimilation: Vladimir ‘Ze’ev’ Jabotinsky’s Ambivalence about Odessa’s Fin de Siècle,” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 73, 2005, 109-116. (appears in Empire Jews) 2 “A Jewish Russifier in Despair: Lev Levanda’s ‘Polish Question’” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations 17, 2004: 279-298. (appears in Empire Jews) “The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia, and the Evolution of the St. Petersburg Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia, 1893-1905,” Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 19, ed. Ezra Mendelsohn, 2004, 195-213. (appears in Empire Jews) “Gershenzon-evrei,” Judaica Rossica, 3, Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities, 2003: 158-173. (appears in Empire Jews) “M. O. Gershenzon and George Florovsky ('Metaphysical Philosophers of Russian History'),” Canadian-American Slavonic Studies, 34, no. 3, 2001, 365-374. “A. S. Pushkin’s Self-Projection in the 1830s: ‘Letters to his Wife.’” Pushkin Journal, 3, 2000, 65-80. “A Portrait of a Jewish Philanthropist: Jacob Teitel's Social Struggle,” Shofar 18, no. 3, Spring 1999, 1-12. (appears in Empire Jews) “The Tension of Athens and Jerusalem in the Philosophy of Lev Shestov,” Slavic and East European Journal 43: 1, Spring, 1999, 156-173. (appears in Empire Jews) “Unity and Disunity in Landmarks: The Rivalry between Petr Struve and Mikhail Gershenzon,” Studies in East European Thought, 51, no. 1, March 1999, 61-78. “Lev Platonovich Karsavin: Historian of Medieval Italy and Russian Orthodox Theologian,” (in Croatian) Knjizhevna smotra [Croatia], 3, no. 1, 1999, 81-84. “The Demolition of Reason in Lev Shestov's Athens and Jerusalem,” Poetics Today 19: 2, Summer 1998, 71-91. “Jewish Stereotyping: Vasily Rozanov and Jewish Menace,” Shofar 16, no. 1, Fall 1997, 85-100. “Genrikh Sliozberg: shtrikhi k politicheskomu portretu ("Henry Sliozberg: a Political Portrait"),” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta v Moskve 2, no. 15, Moscow, 1997, 187-203. (appears in Empire Jews) “Vladimir Ern and his Skovoroda: A Historian and his Philosophical Antithesis,” The Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 22, no. 1-2, Summer-Winter 1997, 97-104. “Unrequited Love for Russia,” Midstream, October 1996, 37-40. “From the Annals of the Literary Life of Russia's Silver Age: The Tempestuous Relationship of S. A. Vengerov and M. O. Gershenzon,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 35, 1995, 77-95; abridged form in “Oh Rus!” Festschrift to Honor Professor Hugh McLean, eds. S. Karlinsky, J. Rice and B. Scheer, Berkeley: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1995, 406-419. “The End of a Friendship: the Russian-Jewish Rift in Twentieth-Century Russian Philosophy: N. A. Berdiaev and M. O. Gershenzon,” Russian Review 53: 4, October 1994, 497-514. Republished: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Scot Peacock, New York: Gale 67, 1997, 75-83. “Ot 3 Vekh' k russkoi revoliutsii: dva filosofa N. A. Berdiaev i M. O. Gershenzon.”Vestnik russkogo studencheskogo khristianskogo dvizheniia 166, May, 1992, 89-132. (appears in Empire Jews) “M. O. Gershenzon and the Perception of a Leader in Russia's Silver-Age Culture,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 29, 1992, 45-73. “Les premiers pas dans la vie: les années de mon immortalité,” La revue des études slaves 63, 1991, 621-629. Articles in Books “What is Russian in Russian Zionism?: Avram Idel’son’s Thought and Destiny,” in Uneasy Inheritance: Russia/Israel, Culture and Politics, eds. S. Ginsburg & B. Horowitz, Slavica, 2013. “Crystallizing Memory: How Russian-Jewish Liberals in the First Emigration Canonized their Legacy,” in The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective: Identities, Peripheries, and the Flow of Ideas, Slavica, 2013. “Simon Dubnov’s ‘Dialogue’ with Heinrich Graetz and Abraham Harkavy and the Struggle for the Domination of Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1883-1893,” Writer and Warrior: Simon Dubnov: Historian and Public Figure, eds. A. Greenbaum, I. Bartal, & D. Haruv, Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2010, 49-70 (appears in Empire Jews). “Maksim Vinaver and the First Russian State Duma” (in German), in Von Duma zu Duma. Hundert Jahre Russischer Parlamentarismus, Dittmar Dahlmann/Pascal Trees, eds., Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2008, 115-131. “How Jewish Was Odessa? The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia as an Innovative Agent of an Alternative Jewish Politics,” in Place, Identity and Urban Culture, Odessa and New Orleans, Occasional Papers of the Kennan Institute, ed. Blair Ruble, 2008, 9-18. “V ukor tsariu: Iakov Shiff, German Rozental’ i amerikanskaia bor’ba s diskriminatsiei evreev pri tsarskom rezhime,” (Sticking it to the Tsar: Jacob Schiff, Herman Rosenthal, and the American Fight to Stop Russian State Antisemitism), Jewish Immigration from Russia, 1881-2005, ed. Olga Belova, Moscow: Rospen, 2008, 96-119. (appears in Empire Jews) “Partial Victory from Defeat: 1905, Jewish Liberals, and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia,” The Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s Jews, A Turning Point? E. Mendelsohn and S. Hoffman, ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 117-41. “Fact into Fiction: Russian-Jewish Writers Face Pogroms (1880-1914),” Times of Trouble: Violence in Russian Literature and Culture, ed. M. Levitt & T. Novikov, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007, 193-202. “Poet i natsiia: slava i stradaniia na tvorcheskom puti Shimona Fruga (Poet and Nation: Fame and Amnesia in Shimon Frug’s Literary Reputation),” Russko-evreiskaia kul’tura, Moscow: Rospen, 2006, 12-31. (appears in Empire Jews) 4 “Spiritual and Physical Strength in Ansky’s Literary Imagination,” The Worlds of S. Ansky: A Russian-Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century, ed. S. Zipperstein & G. Safron, Stanford University Press, 2006, 103-118. (appears in Empire Jews) “The Image of Russian Jews in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914,” The Jews of Eastern Europe: Studies in Jewish Civilization 16, Creighton University Press, 2005, 168-189. “Chronotope and the Paradoxes of M. Bakhtin’s Historical Thinking” Prelomleniya 3, ed. A. Avatsaturov, St.
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