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)
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“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. Petersburg, 2004, 112-123 (Russian).
“’A Knight of Free Creativity’: Lev Shestov on William James,” William James in Russian Culture, ed. Joan Delaney Grossman & Ruth Rischin, Lanham: Lexington, 2003, 159-168.
Encyclopedia Articles and Review Articles “New Research on the Pogroms,” Contemporary Jewry, expected 2013.
“Zhid-kommissar – eto ‘Upward Mobility’,” essay in Lekhaim, 3, 2012: 57-58.
“Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia,” Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, ed. Judith R. Baskin, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 550-551.
“Where We Are Heading: Russian-Jewish History Today,” Kritika, 11 (3) 2010, 673-681.
''<Переписка> как организованное литературное событие,'' in Lekhaim, 8, 2009.
“Frug, Shimen Shmuel” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2 vols., ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 1: 553-554.
“Nikolai Minsky,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2 vols., ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 2: 1180.
“Lev Shestov,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2 vols. ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 2: 1708.
“M. O. Gershenzon,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 2: 1771-1773.
“Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 1771- 1773.
“St. Petersburg in the Russian-Jewish Literary Imagination,” History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe, ed. Marcel Cornis-Pope, et al., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub., 2006, vol. 2, 195-200.
“Imperial Russian Survey,” Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard Levy, Santa Barbara: ABD-CLIO, 2005, 629-632.
5 “Romanticism and the Jews,” Encyclopedia of Romanticism, 2 vols., ed. Chris Murray, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, 1: 575-576.
“Thus Spoke Moskovskii Pushkinist: Alexander Pushkin in Contemporary Russian Scholarship,” Slavic Review, ed. Stephanie Sandler, 58: 2, 1999, 434-439.
“Alexander Vel'tman: 1880-1870,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Literature in the Age of Pushkin and Gogol: Prose, ed. C. A. Rydel, Washington DC: Gale Research 1999, 331- 343.
“The End of Quotation,” Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 4, Winter 1998, 730-735.
“Russian Essay,” Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. T. Chevalier, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 717-723.
“Mikhail Gershenzon,” Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. T. Chevalier, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 331-337.
“The First Wave of Russian Emigration: New Perspectives Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Slavic and East European Journal 3, 1993, 371-379.
“Before the Fall,” The American Scholar, Spring, 1992, 290-296; republished in part in Red Men in Red Square by Claude Clayton Smith, Pocahontas Press, 1994, 155-157.
Publications in Newspapers and Popular Venues
“Was Vladimir Jabotinsky a ‘Good’ Politician?,” Frankel Center Yearbook, 2012.
“Unlikely Hero: Shimon Ansky and Secularism,” Contemplate, 3, 2009, 3-5. Republished in (www.jbooks.com/secularculture).
Edited book: Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fania Eichenblat as told to: Dr. Alan Kaye and Brian Horowitz, New Orleans: AARK Publishers, 2008.
“Finding Refuge from the Storm, in the Nick of Time,” The Forward, September 9, 2005, 6-7.
Translations and Publications with My Notes and Introduction
''Jacob Schiff and Herman Rosenthal, A New York Correspondence,'' Russkie evrei v Amerike, 7, 2012.
With V. Khazan, “Iz istorii russko-evreiskikh literaturnykh otnoshenii. Pis’ma russkikh pisatelei k L. B. Jaffe, Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii, Moscow: Rosspen, 2005, 404-448.
Translation of Osip Rabinovich’s “The Punitive Recruit” (“Strafnoi”), Anthology of Russian- Jewish Literature, 2 vols., M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2006.
6 Letters of Lev Borisovich Jaffe to Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon, notes and introduction by B. Horowitz, Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta v Moskve, 2(18), (1998): 210-225; republished in part in Russian Jewry Abroad, 11, Jerusalem, 2005, 54-61.
Reviews
Oleg Budnitskii, Russian Jews Between the Red and the Whites, 1917-1920, H-Soz-u-Kult, forthcoming.
Review of Jörg Schulte, Olga Tabachnikova, Peter Wagstaff, eds. The Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937, Russian Review, forthcoming.
Review of Jews in the East European Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier, Slavic Review, forthcoming.
Review of Nathaniel Deutsch's, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, forthcoming.
Review of Kniga pogromov, 1918-1922, Menorah Review, forthcoming.
Review of Eliyana R. Adler's In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia, Journal of Religion 92: 2 (April 2012): 307-8.
Review of Jarrod Tanny's City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Odessa, H-Judaica, August, 2012; https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=35278.
Review of James Loeffler, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, Shofar, 31.1, 2012, 176-177.
Review of Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-1914, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 90: 1, 2012, 155-156.
Review of Eugene M. Avrutin, Jews in the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia, Canadian Slavic Studies, vol. 53, #2-3-4 (2011): 590-91.
Review of Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, Canadian Journal of History, vol. XLVI, Autumn, 2011, 405-406.
Review of Gabriella Safran, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky, AJS Review, 25; 02, November (2011): 439-440.
Review of Michael Brenner, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Jewish History, 25/3, Nov. (2011): 407.
Review of Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe, B. Nathans & G. Safran, eds. Slavic and East European Studies, 55:3, fall 2011.
Review of Kenneth Moss, Jewish Renaissance in Revolutionary Russia, Revolutionary Russia, Spring 2011, 237-8.
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Review of Laura Engelstein, Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path, Slavic Review, Winter 2010, 1003-4.
Review of Pushkin Conference at Notre Dame, Jan. 9-11, written with Joe Peschio, Pushkin Journal, 11.1-2, 2010.
Review of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire, H-Net, Sept. 22, 2009; http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=24809.
Review of Dmitrij Belkin, “Gäste, die bleiben”: Vladimir Solov’ev, die Juden und die Deutschen, Russian Review, 68: 2, April, 2010, 330-331.
Review of Maxim Shrayer, ed., An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, Shofar, 27: 4, summer, 2009, 197-2000.
Review of David Petrov-Shrayer, Summer In Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, Slavic and East European Journal, 52:4, 2008, 622.
Review of The Pushkin Handbook, ed. D. Bethea, Pushkin Review, 10, 2007, 163-165.
Review of David Shneer, Yiddish and the Creation of Modern Soviet Yiddish, Menorah Review, 71, summer/fall 2009.
Review of Olga Litvak, Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry, The American Historical Review, 113: June, 2008, 942-43.
Review of Mirovoi krizis 1914-1920 godov i sud’ba vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva, ed. O Budnitskii, Kritika, 9, 1, Winter 2008, 1-5.
"A Human Dimension to Jews of the Periphery: Soviet Prewar Vitebsk (Arkadi Zelt’ser, Evrei Sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki, 1917-1941)," Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1(58), 2007, 118-119.
Review of Judith Kornblatt, Double Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church, American Historical Review, 110, Winter, December 2005, 1632.
Review of Harriet Murav, Identity Theft: the Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, 49.3, Fall 2005, 516-517.
Review of Two Hundred Years of Pushkin: Alexander Pushkin: Myth and Monument, ed. R. Reid and J. Andrew, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003, Slavic Review, 64: 1, Spring 2005, 225-226.
Review of Jews in the Russian Empire, ed. M. Lokshin, Menorah Review, 62 Winter/Spring 2005, 5-6.
Review of Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, ed. Nathalie Babel, trans. Peter Constantine, with an introduction by Michael Dirda, New York, London: W. W. Norton, 2003, 319 pps.; Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories, ed. Nathalie Babel, trans. Peter Constantine, introduction Cynthia Ozick, New York, London: W. W. Norton, 2002, 511 pps., Slavic and Eastern European Journal 48.2 (Summer) 2004, 308-309.
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Review of Gabriella Safran, Rewriting the Jew, Contemporary Jewry 20, 2005, 364-365.
Review of Vadim Rossman, Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era, Russian Review 63: 2, April, 2004, 357-358.
Review of I. Babel’s 1920 Diary, Revolutionary Russia 16, no. 2, Dec. 2003, 107-108.
Review of I. Kleiner’s From Nationalism to Universalism: Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky and the Ukrainian Question, Russian Review 62:1, January, 2003, 167-168.
Review of M. Stanislawski, Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky, Menorah Review 60, 2004: 6-7.
Review of Dan Miron, The Image of the Shtetl, Menorah Review 58, Spring-Summer 2003, 5-6.
Review of Laura Engelstein, Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom, Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2001, 6-7.
Review of Steven Zipperstein, Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity, Menorah Review, Winter 2001, 6-8.
Review of David Roskies. The Jewish Search for a Usable Past. Slavic and East European Journal 44:3, Fall 2000, 493-495.
Review of Edna Nahshon, Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, South Atlantic Review 65, no. 1, Winter 2000, 185-186.
Review of Martin Malia’s Russian Under Western Eyes. Slavic and East European Journal, 44:1, 2000, 151-153.
Review of Pushkinskii Putevoditel’. Slavic and East European Journal, 44: 1, 2000, 123.
Review of John Doyle Klier's, Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881, Menorah Review Winter 2000, 6 & 8.
Review of Mess-Beier, Irina. Mandel’shtam I stalinskaia epokha. Slavic and East European Journal 43: 4, 1999, 720-721.
Review of Mikhail Gershenzon, Pal'mira, ed. V. Proskurina, Slavic and East European Journal 43:3, 1999, 549-550.
Review of Russian Religious Thought, ed. J. Kornblatt and R. Gustafson, Russian History/Histoire Russe 26, no. 1, Spring 1999, 93-95.
Review of Lynn Rapaport, Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish German Relations, Shofar 18, no. 2, Fall 1999, 211-212.
Review of Aileen M. Kelly, Toward Another Shore, Russian History Journal, 25, Winter 1998, 469-471.
9 Review of Steven Cassedy, To The Other Shore: The Russian Jewish Intellectuals Who Came to America, Slavic and East European Journal 42, no.3, Fall 1998, 563-564.
Review of Omry Ronen, The Fallacy of the Silver Age of Russian Literature, Slavic Review 56, no. 4, Winter 1997, 811-812.
Review of Ken Frieden, Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, & Peretz, Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 1, Spring 1998, 168-169.
Review of Yaacov Ro'i, Editor, Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union, Slavic and East European Journal 41, no. 3, Fall 1997, 521-523.
“In Communism’s Shadow,” Review of Partisan Review, Special Issue 1992, RuBriCa, 3, Summer-Autumn 1997, 189-194.
Review of Literatura o evreiakh na russkom iazyke, 1890-1947: Bibliograficheskii ukazatel', compiled by Victor E. Kelner and Dmitri A. Elyashevich; Genrich M. Deych, A Research Guide to Materials on the History of Russian Jewry in Selected Archives of the Former Soviet Union, Slavic and East European Journal 41, no. 1, Spring 1997, 77-78.
Review of Efraim Sicher's, Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy, Nationalities Papers 24, no. 4, Winter 1996, 761-763.
Review of Erich E. Haberer's Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Nationalities Papers 24, no. 4, Winter 1996, 461-462.
Review of "Art From The Ashes": A Holocaust Anthology, ed. by Lawrence L. Langer and Lawrence L. Langer, Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays, Slavic and East European Journal 40, no. 3, Fall, 1996, 576-577.
Review of Christoph Gassenschmidt's Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia 1900-1914, Russian Review 55, no. 3, July 1996, 514-515.
Review of Michael Wachtel's Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition, Russian History Journal 24, no. 3, Fall 1977, 346-348.
Review of David E. Fishman's Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov, Slavic and East European Journal 40, no. 2, Summer 1996, 405-406.
Review of Steven Zipperstein’s The Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism. Russian History Journal 22, no. 4, Winter 1996, 490-491.
Review of Hilde Hardeman’s Coming to Terms with the Soviet Regime. Russian History Journal 23, no. 1-4, 1996, 412-413.
Review of Irina Surat’s Vladislav Khodasevich-Pushkinist. Russian Review 54, no. 4, October, 1995, 360-361.
Review of G. Deych’s Archival Material Concerning the History and Geneology of Jews in Russia and Lenin’s Jewish Ancestors and Michael Beizer’s The Jews of St. Petersburg. Midstream August/September 1995, 45-46.
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Review of Victor Erlich’s Modernism and Revolution. Slavic and East European Jounal 39, no. 3, Fall 1995, 123-125.
Review of Aleksandr Vadimov’s Zhizn’ Berdiaeva: Rossiia. Slavic And East European Journal 39, no. 1, Spring 1995, 128-129.
Review of Maria Carlson’s ‘No Religion Higher Than Truth’: A History of the Theosophical Movement in Russia, 1875-1922’, Chyrysalis 1, IX, 1994, 75-77.
Review of A Hungarian Quartet: Four Contemporary Short Novels, Hungarian Quarterly, 34, no. 129, Spring 1993, 148-150.
Review of M. O. Gershenzon’s Griboedovskaia Moskva. The Russian Review 50, July 1991, 360- 362.
Honors and Awards
Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert. Historische Erfahrungen im Vergleich. 2012.
Jean and Samuel Frankel Center, University of Michigan, Fellow, 2011-12.
Alexander Von Humboldt Short-Term Fellowship, 2010.
Yad Hanadiv/Beracha Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2001.
Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship at University of Heidelberg 2000/2002.
William J. Fulbright Minority Studies Fellowship in Kiev, Ukraine 2000.
Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, 1998.
IREX, International Research and Exchange Board Long-Term Grant for Research in St. Petersburg, Russia (10 months), 1996-1997.
Hoover Institution Summer Research Fellowship, Stanford University, 1996.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Kennan Institute Long-Term Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship, 1993-1994.
IREX International Research and Exchange Board Short-Term Grant for Research in Russia, 1994.
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1991-1992.
Lady Davis Dissertation-Research Fellowship for study at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990-1991.
11 University of California Young Faculty Exchange with Leningrad State University for study at Leningrad State University, 1989-1990.
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
Grants from Home Institution: Tulane: Stoll Travel Grant, 2011, 2008. Publication subvention, 2010. Newcomb College Women’s Center, Travel Fellowship, 2009. Phase II Research Fellowship, Tulane University, 2007.
Nebraska: Research Council, Summer Research Fellowship, 1998. Research Council, Research Fellowship, 1996.
Invited Lectures Keynote: Future of Jewish Studies in Eastern Europe, Arizona State University, Nov. 16,2012. Soviet Jewry, University of Munich, June 14, 2012. Vladimir Jabotinsky-Right Radicalism in Eastern Europe, University of Jena, May 14, 2012. Ethnicity and Jewish Identity, University of Michigan, Nov. 10, 2011. Slavic-Jewish Literature Conference at UCLA, May 5, 2011. Emigration Conference, Jewish Studies, Temple University, April 2011. Slavic Seminar, Columbia University, March 4, 2011. Conference on S. Dubnov, Shazar Center, Jerusalem, November 2010. YIVO, 150-Year Anniversary of S. Dubnov’s Birth, October 24, 2010. National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar, “America Engages Russia,” New York Public Library, June 17, 2009. Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC, March 12, 2009. Russian Center, Oberlin College, February 24, 2008. Russian Department, Reed College, November 7, 2007. Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, March 21, 2006. Slavic Department, Brandeis University, March 20, 2006. Faculty Seminar, Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, December 11, 2005. Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Nov. 18, 2005. Modern Languages, William and Mary College, Oct. 27, 2005. Slavic Department/ Jewish Studies, UC Berkeley, Oct. 24, 2005. Judaic Studies/ Slavic Department, University of Wisconsin, Sept. 20, 2005. Jewish Studies Program, University of Denver, April 28, 2005. Slavic Seminar, University of Heidelberg, July 17, 2002 (delivered in German). Seminar For East European History, University of Erlangen, July 10, 2002. Russian Studies Program, Amherst College, Nov. 9, 2001 Pushkin Museum, Kiev, Ukraine. June 6, 2001. Seminar for Jewish History, Hebrew University, April 20, 2001. Slavic, English and Judaic Studies, University of Copenhagen, March 7-9, 2001 Historical Seminar/ Judaic Studies, University of Bonn, Jan. 9, 2001. Judaic Studies/Slavic Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 9, 1999. Judaic Studies/Slavic Dept., University of Chicago, Hyde Park, April 1, 1998. Slavic Dept, Northwestern University, Evanston, March 31, 1998.
12 Judaic Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 25, 1998. Russian and E. European Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, April 6, 1995.
Recognition in Media
Interview by Radio Russia America, February 1913.
Talks at Conferences (since 2000) Oct. 13, 2012, Israeli Secularism: the Future of an Illusion, Univ. of Florida. Nov. 21, 2010, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Los Angeles. Aug. 27, 2010, Workshop on Vladimir Jabotinsky at the Hebrew University. Nov. 13-13, 2009, AAASS, Boston. June 24-25, 2009, International Conference: Acculturation and Tension in Russian-Jewish Literature, Hebrew University. Jan. 9-11, 2009, International Conference: Alexander Pushkin and Russian National Identity: Taboo Texts, Topics, Interpretations, Notre Dame University. Dec. 20-22, 2008, Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, Washington DC. Nov. 19-23, 2008, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Philadelphia. June 17-19, 2008, International Conference, Jewish Ethnographic-Historical Society, International Institute for the Study of East-European Jewry/ European University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia. Nov. 17-20, 2007, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), New Orleans. Dec. 24-25, 2006, International Conference, Geography of Yiddish, Haifa University, Israel. Dec. 11-13, 2006, International Conference, Jewish Emigration from Russia, International Institute for the Study of East-European Jewry, Moscow Nov. 17, 2006, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington D.C. Dec. 4-6, 2005, International Conference, Russian-Jewish Culture, International Institute for the Study of East-European Jewry, Moscow. Nov. 4-6, 2005, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Salt Lake City. Jan. 9-12, 2005, International Conference, Russian-Jewish Culture in the 20th Century, Bar-Ilan University, (delivered in Russian). Dec. 13-15, 2004. International Conference, Russian Literature in Israel, Hebrew University (delivered in Russian). May, 3-5, 2004, International Conference, Jewish Responses to the Revolution of 1905: On the Retirement of Jonathan Frankel, Hebrew University. Dec. 2004, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, (AAASS), Boston. Dec. 2003, Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston. Sept. 2003, Klutznick Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. June 2003, Conference on Vasily Rozanov, University of Illinois. Dec. 2002, Annual Conference of the AJS, Los Angeles, CA. Dec. 2002, Annual Conference of the Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), New York. July 2002, Conference of European Jewish Association, Amsterdam. April 2002, Russian Center, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
13 Dec. 2001, Shimon Conference, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Nov. 2001, Annual Conference of the AAASS, Silver City, Virginia. March 2001, International Conference devoted to Shimon An-sky, Stanford University. Jan. 2001, Seminar für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Heidelberg. Nov. 2000, Seminar für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Heidelberg. Nov. 2000, Summet du Yiddish, Conseil de l”Europe, Strasbourg. Sept. 2000, “Polonophilia and Polonophobia of the Russians,” Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN. August 2000, VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies, Tampere, Finland. April 2000, “Negotiating Cultural Upheavals Conference,” Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH.
Institutional Grants Won
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) Conference Grant, 2009. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) Visiting Israeli Professor, 2008-2012. National Foundation for Jewish Culture Jewish Studies Expansion Grant, 2008-2010 Center for Cultural Judaism-Posen Foundation, 2007-2010; 2012-13. Lucius N. Littauer Library Grant, 2004.
Teaching Experience at Tulane University
Courses in Jewish Studies: Introduction to Jewish Civilization Building Jewish Identity: Secular Judaism in Historical Perspective Modern Jewish History Holocaust in Literature and Cinema Jewish Identity in Modern Culture: Diaspora, Religion, Culture Women in Judaism History of Jewish Nationalism in Europe History of Zionism Power in Jewish History
Courses in the German and Slavic Department: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy Russia’s Epistolary Tradition (taught in Russian) Beginning Russian
Course for TIDES: Religion in the Media: Freshmen Seminar
Served on PhD Committees, 2008, 2006. Directed Masters Theses, 2008, 2006, 2004. Directed Senior Theses, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008. Served on a Masters Committee, 2007.
Teaching Experience at Xavier University (New Orleans) Modern Russian History
Teaching Experience at the University of Nebraska
14 Modern Languages 234D European Fiction Modern Languages 232 The Jewish Idea in European Lit. Modern Languages 454/854 Anti-Semitism in Russia and the West Modern Languages 198 Image of the Jew in Russian Literature Modern Languages 398 Holocaust in Lit. and Film Russian 101, 102 First Year Russian Russian 201, 202 Second Year Russian Russian 301, 302 Representative Authors Russian 303, 304 Advanced Conversation and Composition Russian 398 Special Topics in Russian Russian 441 Russian Novel Russian 442 Russian Poetry Russian 454/854 Russian Intellectual Tradition Russian 482 Russian Literature in Translation 1 Russian 483 Russian Literature in Translation II Modern Languages 198 Special Topics: Russian Culture through Cinema Modern Languages 234D Literature of Eastern Europe Honors 198H Alexander Pushkin and Russia's Golden Age
Teaching Awards
IREX Teaching Grant for Teaching Russian History in a Traditional Black College (Xavier Univ.), 2011. Tulane, Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Teaching Award, finalist, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2007. Recognized by the Sophomore Class of 2006-07 as “One of the Most Highly Regarded Professors at Tulane University.” University of Nebraska Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 2000. University of Nebraska Parents and Teachers Association Teaching Award, 2000, 1999.
Administrative Experience:
Chair of Jewish Studies Department, Tulane University, 2012-present. Director of Jewish Studies Program, Tulane University, 2003-2010. Chair of German and Slavic Studies Department, Tulane University, 2007-2010. Senator of the University Senate (elected), Tulane University, 2007-2010. Senate Committee on Faculty Tenure, Freedom, and Responsibility, Tulane University, 2007-08. Member of the Curriculum Committee (elected) Tulane University, 2004-2008. Headed six successful searches for faculty at Tulane University. Member of the Executive Board of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska (elected), 1994-1997. Member of the Curriculum Committee (elected) Harris Center for Judaic Studies, Univ. of Nebraska, 1998-1999; 1994-1996. Program Director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center, 1994-1996.
Organization of Events:
Organized an international symposium, “Utopia and Distopia in Modern Central and East European Jewish History,” Tulane University, February 17-18, 2013.
15 Organized a national symposium, “The Messianic Idea in Walter Benjamin,” Tulane University, March 25, 2011. Organized an international conference: “The Expanse of Russia in Israel,” Tulane University, Feb. 15-16, 2009. Organized the meeting of the Foundation for Jewish Culture’s (NYC) Schusterman Visiting Teachers of Jewish Studies teachers and mentors, Tulane University, June, 2008. Organized symposium, “Odessa and New Orleans,” Tulane University, Nov. 18, 2007. Organized symposium, Commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of Theodor Herzl’s Death, Jewish Community Center, New Orleans, March 18, 2006.
Organized University Lectures: Pamela Barmash, 2004, Abraham Greenbaum, 2004, John Klier, 2004, István Deák, 2004, Anita Shapira, 2005, Gabriella Safran, 2005, Steven Zipperstein, 2005, Wayne Horowitz, 2006, Jan Gross, 2006, David Stern, 2007, Ilan Troen, 2007, Anna Lisa Crone, 2007, Jeffrey Veidlinger, 2008, Derek Penslar, 2008, David Biale, 2008, Bernard Lewis, 2008, Ronna Burger, 2009, Evgenii Bershtein, 2009, Steven Marx, 2009, David Myers, 2010, Shaul Stampfer, 2011, Pawel Maciejko, 2011, Allan Arkush, 2011.
Public Talks
March, 2010, Newcomb Institute for Women, Tulane Univ., “Decembrist Wives.” Jan. 2009, Temple Gates of Prayers, “Sholem Aleichem.” Sept. 2008, Melton School, Adult Education, “A. B. Yehoshua.” Jan. 2005, Series of Three Lectures for New Orleans Lehrhaus, Adult Education Program, “Historiography of Zionism.” Jan. 2004, Series of Three Lectures for New Orleans Lehrhaus, Adult Education Program, “Zionism, New Perspectives.” May 2004, Gates of Prayer Temple, “Jewish Studies at Tulane.” Dec. 2003, Shir Hadash Synagogue, “Jewish Science.” Dec. 2003, Newcomb Nursery, “Hanukah.” Nov. 2003, Touro Synagogue, New Orleans, “Russian-Jewish Diaspora.” Nov. 2003, Chabad House, New Orleans, “Maimonides.” Nov. 1999, Omaha B’nai-B’rith, “Tortured Oracle: Russian-Jewish Writers.” March 1999, Tifereth Synagogue, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 1999, “Russian Jews Today.” Nov. 1997, Tifereth Synagogue, Lincoln, Nebraska, “Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia.” Oct. 1995, Lincoln City Health and Human Services, “Russians and their Conceptions about Institutions of Health.” Nov. 1994, U. of Nebraska Department of Family Sciences, “Russian Culture Today.”
Professional Activity
Series Editor of a Book Series in Slavica Press, 2006-present: Boris Kotlerman, In Search of Milk and Honey: The Theater of Soviet Jewish Statehood’ (1934-49) (2008). Brian Horowitz, Empire Jews (2009). Seth Wolitz, Learning from the Golden Peacock: Studies in Eastern-European Jewish Culture (2012).
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Member of the editorial board of: Center for Intercultural Russian Studies, Bar-Ilan University, 2004-present. Amsterdam International Journal of Cultural Narratology, 2004-present. Shibboleth: A Journal on Jewish Literary Theory, 2007-present. Menorah Review, 1999-present.
Reviewed book manuscripts for: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Syracuse University Press, 2012. Indiana University Press, 2011. University of Washington Press, 2008. Stanford University Press, 2007, 2008. University of Toronto Press, 2007. Northwestern University Press, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2010. Wisconsin University Press, 2005 Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Reviewed articles for: East European Jewish Affairs, 2012. Aukland Jewish Studies Forum, 2009. Religion Compass, 2009. Journal of Historical Sociology, 2009. Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, 2007. Pushkin Journal, 2005. Slavic Review, 1998, 2001, 2006. 2009, 2010. Slavic and East European Journal, 1998, 2001. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 1998-99. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1997. Canadian Historical Journal, 2011.
Evaluated fellowship applicants for Imre Kertész Kolleg, Univ. of Jena, 2012. Evaluated doctoral dissertation fellowships for Foundation of Jewish Culture, 2012. Evaluated scholarship applicants for Council of American Overseas Research Centers, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. Member of the Program Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), 2006-2007. Evaluation of professor for named chair status: University of Wisconsin, 2011. Evaluation of promotion to full professor for University of Michigan, 2012; University of Colorado, 2010; Grinnell College, 2009. Evaluation of tenure and promotion case for Bar-Ilan University, 2013, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2011; Reed College, 2011; University of California, San Diego, 2011; Kalamazoo College, 2008; Northwestern University, 2006. Evaluation of scholarship proposals for National Foundation of Jewish Culture, 2005.
Memberships American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
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