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CURRICULUM VITAE BRIAN HOROWITZ 7031 Freret St. Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 [email protected] 504 261 2080 (h), 504 862 3075 (w) Employment 2003-present Sizeler Family Chair of Jewish Studies Dept., Tulane University Full Professor (2008) Chairman of the Jewish Studies Dept. (2012-2017) Director of the Jewish Studies Program (2003-2010) Chairman of the German and Slavic Department (2014-2017; 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 2014-2018 Director of the Stacy Mandel and Keith Palagye Program in Middle East Peace at Tulane Univ. 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 Vladimir Jabotinsky: Russian Zionist, 1900-1925, Indian University Press, 2020. Russian-Jewish Tradition: Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries, Academic Publishers, 2017. 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. (Republished in Russian translation: Evreskie intellektualy v rossiiskoi imperii, Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2017.) The Myth of A.S. 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 Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 29: Writing Jewish History, co-edited with Natalia Aleksiun & Antony Polonsky, 2016. Introduction by N. Aleksiun and B. Horowitz, pps. 1-18. Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life (first English publication of Sippur Yamai), co-edited with Leonid Katsis, with my introduction and notes, Wayne State University Press, 2015. (Partially republished in The Jewish Review of Books, vol. 6, no. 4, Winter 2016, 35-36.) Seth L. Wolitz, Yiddish Modernism: Studies in Twentieth-Century Eastern European Jewish Culture, co-edited with Haim Gottschalk, Slavica Press, 2014. Bounded Mind and Soul, Russia/Israel, Culture and Politics, co-edited with Shai Ginsburg, Slavica Press, 2013. Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fania Eichenblat as told to: Dr. Alan Kaye and Brian Horowitz, New Orleans: AARK Publishers, 2008. 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 40. “The Return of the Heder among Russian-Jewish Education Experts, 1840-1917,” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations 30, eds. Eliyana Adler & Antony Polonsky, 2018, 182-193 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 39. “Vladimir Jabotinsky-A Zionist Activist on the Rise, 1905-06,” Scripta Judaica 20, 2017, 105-124. 38. “M. O. Gershenzon, Alexander Pushkin, the Bible, and the Flaws of Jewish Nationalism,” Serebrianyi vek russkoi kul’tury: Journal of Dmitry Pozharsky University (in Russian) 4 (8), 2017, 9-23 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 2 37. “Principle or Expediency: Violence and Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Struggle to Dominate the Zionist Movement,” Simon-Dubnow-Institute Yearbook, 15, 2017, 15-32 (republished in Russian- Jewish Tradition). 36. '''Building a Fragile Edifice': A History of Historical Institutions in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914,'' Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations 29, ed. Brian Horowitz, Natalia Aleksiun & Antony Polonsky, 2016, 61-76 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 35.''Vladimir Jabotinsky and the Mystique of 1905,'' Zion, vol. 80/4, 2015, 503-520 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 34. ''Battling for Self-Definition in Soviet Literature: Boris Eikhenbaum's Jewish Question,'' Znanie, Ponimanie, Umenie 2, 2015, 379-392 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 33.''Vladimir Solov'ev and the Jews: A View From Today,'' Solovyovskie issledovaniiya (Solovyov Studies) 3 (43), 2014, 32-49 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 32.''Myths and Counter-Myths about Odessa's Jewish Intelligentsia during the Late-Tsarist Period,'' Jewish Culture and History 16, 3-4, 2014, 210-224 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 31. ''Mandarin Jew: Herman Rosenthal's Peculiar Eastern-European Legacy in Progressive-Era New York (1881-1917),'' American Jewish Archives, LXV, nos. 1-2, 2013, 45-71. Republished in Russkie evrei v Amerike 9, 2014, 62-81. 30. ''Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin in the New Soviet State: Pavel Sakulin and the Pushkin Edition of 1931-36,'' Pushkin Review 16-17, 2013-14, 181-204. 29. ''Semyon Dubnov's Ideological Challenge in Emigration: Autonomism and Zionism, Europe and Palestine,'' Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia 11, 2013, 11-20 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 28. “The Russian Roots of Simon Dubnov’s Life and Thought [Hebrew],” Zion 3, 2012, 341–358. (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence). 27. “Semyon An-sky-Dialogic Writer,” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations, vol. 24, 2011, 131-149 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 26. “Integration and its Discontents: Mikhail Morgulis and the Ideology of Jewish Integration in Russia,” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations 22, 2009, 291-315 (Republished in Empire Jews). 25.“Both Crisis and Continuity: A Reinterpretation of Late-Tsarist Russian Jewry,” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta 11, no. 29, 2006, 89-112 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence). 24. “Russian-Zionist Cultural Cooperation, 1916-1918: Leib Jaffe and the Russian Intelligentsia,” Jewish Social Studies, 13, no 1, Fall 2006, 87-109 (Republished in Empire Jews). 3 23. “A. S. Pushkin’s Shifting Poetics: Deceptive Subtexts in ‘Domik v Kolomne,’” Pushkin Journal, 8-9, 2005-06, 45-60. 22. “Hail to Assimilation: Vladimir ‘Ze’ev’ Jabotinsky’s Ambivalence about Odessa’s Fin de Siècle,” Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 73, 2005, 109-116 (Republished in Empire Jews). 21. “A Jewish Russifier in Despair: Lev Levanda’s ‘Polish Question’” Polin: A Journal Devoted to Polish-Jewish Relations 17, 2004: 279-298 (Republished in Empire Jews). 20. “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. (Republished in Empire Jews). 19. “Gershenzon-evrei,” Judaica Rossica, 3, Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities, 2003: 158-173 (Republished in Empire Jews). 18. “M. O. Gershenzon and George Florovsky ('Metaphysical Philosophers of Russian History'),” Canadian-American Slavonic Studies, 34, no. 3, 2001, 365-374 (Republished in Russian Idea- Jewish Presence). 17. “A. S. Pushkin’s Self-Projection in the 1830s: ‘Letters to his Wife.’” Pushkin Journal, 3, 2000, 65-80. 16. “A Portrait of a Jewish Philanthropist: Jacob Teitel's Social Struggle,” Shofar 18, no. 3, Spring 1999, 1-12 (Republished in Empire Jews). 15. “The Tension of Athens and Jerusalem in the Philosophy of Lev Shestov,” Slavic and East European Journal 43: 1, Spring, 1999, 156-173 (Republished in Empire Jews). 14. “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. (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence). 13.“Lev Platonovich Karsavin: Historian of Medieval Italy and Russian Orthodox Theologian,” (in Croatian) Knjizhevna smotra [Croatia], 3, no. 1, 1999, 81-84. 12. “Thus Spoke Moskovskii Pushkinist: Alexander Pushkin in Contemporary Russian Scholarship,” Slavic Review, ed. Stephanie Sandler, 58: 2, 1999, 434-439. 11. “The End of Quotation,” Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 4, Winter 1998, 730-735. 10. “The Demolition of Reason in Lev Shestov's Athens and Jerusalem,” Poetics Today 19: 2, Summer 1998, 71-91. 9. “Jewish Stereotyping: Vasily Rozanov and Jewish Menace,” Shofar 16, no. 1, Fall 1997, 85- 100 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition). 8. “Genrikh Sliozberg: shtrikhi k politicheskomu portretu ("Henry Sliozberg: a Political Portrait"),” Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta v Moskve 2, no. 15, Moscow, 1997, 187-203 (Revised in Empire Jews). 4 7.“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. 6. “Unrequited Love for Russia,” Midstream, October 1996, 37-40. 5. “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 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish