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).
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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 Presence); republished in 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.
4. “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 in Empire Jews). (Also Republished in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Scot Peacock, New York: Gale 67, 1997, 75-83. “Ot Vekh' k russkoi revoliutsii: dva filosofa N. A. Berdiaev i M. O. Gershenzon.”Vestnik russkogo studencheskogo khristianskogo dvizheniia 166, May, 1992, 89-132).
3. “M. O. Gershenzon and the Perception of a Leader in Russia's Silver-Age Culture,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 29, 1992, 45-73 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence).
2. “Before the Fall” (On Vekhi [Landmarks]), 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).
1. “Les premiers pas dans la vie: les années de mon immortalité,” La revue des études slaves 63, 1991, 621-629.
Articles in Books
18. “A Russian-Jewish Self: The Idea of Synthesis in Jewish Social-Criticism in Russia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” Wissenschaft Des Judentums in Europe: Comparative and Transnational Perspective, eds. Christian Wiese & Mirjam Thulin, Berlin: De Gruyter, (expected 2019).
17. “More Than Mere Opportunism: Vladimir Jabotinsky and the Religious-Secular Paradigm in a Revisionist Zionist Vein,” Russia, Religion and Secularism, eds. Ana Siljak, Northern Illinois University Press, (expected 2019).
16. “Salo Baron’s Interpretation of Soviet Russia in a Cold-War Context,” The Enduring Legacy of Salo W. Baron: Proceedings of a Conference at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, May 26-29, 2015, ed. Hava Samuelson & Edward Dąbrowa, Jagiellonian University Press, 2017, 270-290.
15. “Saul Borovoi’s Survival: An Odessa Tale about a Jewish Historian in Soviet Times,” Reappraisals and New Studies of Modern Jewish Experience: Essays in Honor of Robert M. Selzter, eds. Christian Weise and Brian Smollett, Brill, 2015, 46-61. Also appeared as “Saul Borovoi’s Evolution as a Historian of Ukrainian Jewry in the Early Soviet Period,” in Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie 3, 2014. 376-387 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition).
5 14. “Reflection through Revolution: M. O. Gershenzon’s Side in the Correspondence from Two Corners,” Jewishness in Russian Culture: Within and Without, eds. L. Katsis & H. Tolstoy, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2013, 109-122 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence). (Appears in Russian translation: Judaica Rossica, Belgrade, 2011, 93-107).
13. “What is Russian in Russian Zionism?: Avram Idel’son’s Thought and Destiny,” in Bounded Mind and Spirit, eds. S. Ginsburg & B. Horowitz, Slavica, 2013, 61-76 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence).
12. “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, 75-92 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence).
11. “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 (Republished in Empire Jews).
10. “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 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence).
9. “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 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence).
8. “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 (Republished in Empire Jews).
7. “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 (Republished in Empire Jews).
6. “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, 140-151 (republished in Russian-Jewish Tradition).
5. “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 (Republished 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 (Republished in Empire Jews).
6 3. “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 (Republished in Russian Idea-Jewish Presence).
2. “Chronotope and the Paradoxes of M. Bakhtin’s Historical Thinking” Prelomleniya 3, ed. A. Avatsaturov, St. Petersburg, 2004, 279-288 (Russian).
1. “’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.
Recognition in Media
Interview by TVR 1, Tel Aviv Radio, March 2016 Interview by Radio Russia-America, February 1913.
Honors and Awards
Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, 2020. (declined)
Alexander Von Humboldt Short-Term Fellowship, 2015, 2010.
Award for Research Excellence, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2013 (one award given to a faculty member annually).
Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Europas Osten im 20.Jahrhundert. Historische Erfahrungen im Vergleich. Fellowship, 2012. (Five months).
Jean and Samuel Frankel Center, University of Michigan, Year Fellowship, 2011-12.
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.
7 Lady Davis Dissertation-Research Fellowship for study at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1990-1991.
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.
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, 2014, 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.
Encyclopedia Articles and Review Articles
21. “Semyon An-sky,” in Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).
20. With Ari Dubnow, “Jabotinsky, Vladimir (Ze’ev),” 1914-1918 on-line, International Encyclopedia of the First World War (Freie Universität Berlin: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut): www.1914-1918-online.net. (2018).
19.“New Research on the Pogroms,” Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1, 2014, 347-351.
18.“A Mission in the Diaspora: Simon Dubnov’s Jewish Autonomism,” Menorah Journal, 78, Winter/Spring 2013 (on-line http://www.menorahreview.org/article.aspx?id=140.)
17.“Zhid-kommissar – eto ‘Upward Mobility’,” essay in Lekhaim, 3, 2012, 57-58.
16.“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.
15.“Where We Are Heading: Russian-Jewish History Today,” Kritika, 11 (3) 2010, 673-681.
14.''<Переписка> как организованное литературное событие,'' in Lekhaim, 8, 2009.
13.“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.
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12.“Nikolai Minsky,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2 vols., ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 2: 1180.
11.“Lev Shestov,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2 vols. ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 2: 1708.
10.“M. O. Gershenzon,” The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon Hundert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 2: 1771-1773.
9.“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.
8.“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.
7.“Imperial Russian Survey,” Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution, ed. Richard Levy, Santa Barbara: ABD-CLIO, 2005, 629-632.
6.“Romanticism and the Jews,” Encyclopedia of Romanticism, 2 vols., ed. Chris Murray, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004, 1: 575-576.
5.“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.
4.“In Communism’s Shadow,” Review of Partisan Review, Special Issue 1992, RuBriCa, 3, Summer-Autumn 1997, 189-194.
3.“Russian Essay,” Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. T. Chevalier, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 717-723.
2.“Mikhail Gershenzon,” Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. T. Chevalier, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997, 331-337.
1.“The First Wave of Russian Emigration: New Perspectives Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Slavic and East European Journal 3, 1993, 371-379.
Publications in Newspapers and Popular Venues
7. “Balfour Declaration,” Southern Jewish Life, November, 2017, p.34.
6.“No Apologies: How to Respond to Slander of Israel and Jews,” Mosaic Magazine, accessed with http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2016/11/no-apologies-how-to-respond-to-slander- of-israel-and-jews on November 28, 2016 (publication of Jabotinsky’s essay with my introduction and editing).
9 5.“A Cold-War Discourse Tinted with Holocaust Rhetoric: The Ukrainian Crisis in the United States Elite Press” in “The Ukrainian Crisis in the European Media and Public Sphere.” Imre Kertész Kollege, University of Jena: 1914. http://www.imre-kertesz-kolleg.uni jena.de/index.php?id=571
4.“Evreiskii siuzhet v N’iu-Iorke v epokhu progressa,” Russkie evrei v Amerike, 7, ed. Ernest Zaltsberg, Toronto-St. Peterburg: Giperion, 2013 (publication of letters in the archive of Herman Rosenthal).
3.“Was Vladimir Jabotinsky a ‘Good’ Politician?,” Frankel Center Yearbook, 2012.
2.“S. Ansky: Prophet of Modernism,” Contemplate, 5, 2008-2009, 25-27. Republished in (www.jbooks.com/secularculture).
1.“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
With V. Khazan, “Iz istorii russko-evreiskikh literaturnykh otnoshenii. Pis’ma russkikh pisatelei k L. B. Jaffe, Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii, Moscow: Rosspen, 2005, 407-438.
My translation of Osip Rabinovich’s “The Punitive Recruit” (“Strafnoi”), Anthology of Russian- Jewish Literature, 2 vols., M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2006, vol. 1: 33-43.
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
86. Review of Eliyahu Stern, Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution in the 1870s, American Historical Journal, exp. 2020.
85. Review of Dmitry Shumsky, Beyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion, H-Net, exp. 2019.
84. Review of Irena Grudzinska-Gross & Iwa Nawrocki, eds., Poland and Polin: New Interpretations in Polish-Jewish Studies, The Polish Review, exp. 2019.
83. Review of Vladimir Levin, Me-mehapekha le-milchama: ha-politika ha’yehudit be-rusiya, 1907-1914, Contemporary Jewry, 2019.
82. Review of Ferenc Laczó, Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 1929-1948, in h-nationalism: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=50305 (appeared first, April 13, 2018).
81. Review of S. An-sky, Pioneers, The First Breach, Russian Review, 77-1, 2018, 154-155.
10 80. Review of Ellie R. Schainker, Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906, AJS Review, 42-1, 2018, 47-49.
79. Review of Jeffrey Shandler, Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History, Slavic and East European Journal, 61:4, Winter 2017, 929-931.
78. Review of Lawrence J. Epstein, The Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress, H-net, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=48531. Appeared on Jan.12, 2017.
77. Review of Darius Staliūnas, Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania Under the Tsars, Slavonic and East European Review, 94/1, 2016, 356-358.
76. Review of Simon Rabinovitch, Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia, AJS Review, 39/2, 2015, 460-462.
75. Review of Scott Ury, Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 28, 2015, 293-295.
74. Review of A. Nakhinovsky and R. Newman, Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America, Slavic Review, 74, no. 2, 2015, 403-04.
73. Review of Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk, Jewish History, vol. 28: 2, 2014, 237-239.
72. Review of Chaim Zhitlowsky: Philosoph, Sozialrevolutionär und Theoretiker einer säkularen nationaljüdischen Identität, https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=39447. (2014)
71. Review of Traditionen jüdischen Denkens in Europa, Acadia, 48/2, 2013.
70. Review of Trude Maurer, Diskriminierte Bürger und emanzipierte ‘Fremdstämmige’, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 92, 1, 2014, 153-155..
69. Review of Jörg Schulte, Olga Tabachnikova, Peter Wagstaff, eds. The Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937, Russian Review, 72 (2) 2013, 315-316.
68. Review of Jews in the East European Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier, Slavic Review, 72, no 3 Fall 2013: 637-38.
67. Review of Nathaniel Deutsch's, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Dec. 2013.
66. Review of Kniga pogromov, 1918-1922, Menorah Review 79, summer/fall 2013.
65. Review of Oleg Budnitskii, Russian Jews Between the Red and the Whites, 1917-1920, H- Soz-u-Kult, February 1913; www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38368.
64.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.
11 63.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.
62.Review of James Loeffler, The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire, Shofar, 31.1, 2012, 176-177.
61.Review of Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-1914, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 90: 1, 2012, 155-156.
60.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.
59.Review of Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago’s Children, Canadian Journal of History, vol. XLVI, Autumn, 2011, 405-406.
58.Review of Gabriella Safran, Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk's Creator, S. An-sky, AJS Review, 25; 02, November (2011): 439-440.
57.Review of Michael Brenner, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Jewish History, 25/3, Nov. (2011): 407.
56.Review of Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe, B. Nathans & G. Safran, eds. Slavic and East European Studies, 55:3, fall 2011.
55.Review of Kenneth Moss, Jewish Renaissance in Revolutionary Russia, Revolutionary Russia, Spring 2011, 237-8.
54.Review of Laura Engelstein, Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path, Slavic Review, Winter 2010, 1003-4.
53.Review of Pushkin Conference at Notre Dame, Jan. 9-11, written with Joe Peschio, Pushkin Journal, 11.1-2, 2010.
52.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.
51.Review of Dmitrij Belkin, “Gäste, die bleiben”: Vladimir Solov’ev, die Juden und die Deutschen, Russian Review, 68: 2, April, 2010, 330-331.
50.Review of Maxim Shrayer, ed., An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, Shofar, 27: 4, summer, 2009, 197-2000.
49.Review of David Petrov-Shrayer, Summer In Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, Slavic and East European Journal, 52:4, 2008, 622.
48.Review of The Pushkin Handbook, ed. D. Bethea, Pushkin Review, 10, 2007, 163-165.
47.Review of David Shneer, Yiddish and the Creation of Modern Soviet Yiddish, Menorah Review, 71, summer/fall 2009.
12 46.Review of Olga Litvak, Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry, The American Historical Review, 113: June, 2008, 942-43.
45.Review of Mirovoi krizis 1914-1920 godov i sud’ba vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva, ed. O Budnitskii, Kritika, 9, 1, Winter 2008, 1-5.
44."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.
43.Review of Judith Kornblatt, Double Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox Church, American Historical Review, 110, Winter, December 2005, 1632.
42.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.
41.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.
40.Review of Jews in the Russian Empire, ed. M. Lokshin, Menorah Review, 62 Winter/Spring 2005, 5-6.
39.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.
38.Review of Gabriella Safran, Rewriting the Jew, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 20, 2005, 364- 365.
37.Review of Vadim Rossman, Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era, Russian Review 63: 2, April, 2004, 357-358.
36.Review of I. Babel’s 1920 Diary, Revolutionary Russia 16, no. 2, Dec. 2003, 107-108.
35.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.
34.Review of M. Stanislawski, Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky, Menorah Review 60, 2004: 6-7.
33.Review of Dan Miron, The Image of the Shtetl, Menorah Review 58, Spring-Summer 2003, 5- 6.
32.Review of Laura Engelstein, Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom, Slavic and East European Journal, Winter 2001, 6-7.
31.Review of Steven Zipperstein, Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity, Menorah Review, Winter 2001, 6-8.
13 30.Review of David Roskies. The Jewish Search for a Usable Past. Slavic and East European Journal 44:3, Fall 2000, 493-495.
29.Review of Edna Nahshon, Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, South Atlantic Review 65, no. 1, Winter 2000, 185-186.
28.Review of Martin Malia’s Russian Under Western Eyes. Slavic and East European Journal, 44:1, 2000, 151-153.
27.Review of Pushkinskii Putevoditel’. Slavic and East European Journal, 44: 1, 2000, 123.
26.Review of John Doyle Klier's, Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881, Menorah Review Winter 2000, 6 & 8.
25.Review of Mess-Beier, Irina. Mandel’shtam i stalinskaia epokha. Slavic and East European Journal 43: 4, 1999, 720-721.
24.Review of Mikhail Gershenzon, Pal'mira, ed. V. Proskurina, Slavic and East European Journal 43:3, 1999, 549-550.
23.Review of Russian Religious Thought, ed. J. Kornblatt and R. Gustafson, Russian History/Histoire Russe 26, no. 1, Spring 1999, 93-95.
22.Review of Lynn Rapaport, Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish German Relations, Shofar 18, no. 2, Fall 1999, 211-212.
21.Review of Aileen M. Kelly, Toward Another Shore, Russian History Journal, 25, Winter 1998, 469-471.
20.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.
19.Review of Omry Ronen, The Fallacy of the Silver Age of Russian Literature, Slavic Review 56, no. 4, Winter 1997, 811-812.
18.Review of Ken Frieden, Classic Yiddish Fiction: Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, & Peretz, Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 1, Spring 1998, 168-169.
17.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.
16.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.
15.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.
14.Review of Erich E. Haberer's Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Nationalities Papers 24, no. 4, Winter 1996, 461-462.
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13.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.
12.Review of Christoph Gassenschmidt's Jewish Liberal Politics in Tsarist Russia 1900-1914, Russian Review 55, no. 3, July 1996, 514-515.
11.Review of Michael Wachtel's Russian Symbolism and Literary Tradition, Russian History Journal 24, no. 3, Fall 1977, 346-348.
10.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.
9.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.
8.Review of Hi