Cultural Continuity in the Diaspora: Paris
and Berlin
in 1917-1937
The Experience of
Russian Jews in an Era of Social Change
Research Project based at the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies,
University
of Bath (sponsored by the Leverhulme
Trust, UK,
under the International Networks Scheme)
Principal Investigator: Dr Peter Wagstaff
Research Assistants: Dr Olga Tabachnikova
Dr Jörg Schulte
APPLY TO JOIN THE NETWORK:
If
you are interested to become involved in the project, please register to join
the International Interdisciplinary Research Network of specialists working
on this theme. To this end please send your expression of interest
accompanied by a brief CV to Dr Peter Wagstaff (mlspjw@bath.ac.uk), Olga Tabachnikova (mlpot@bath.ac.uk) or Dr Jörg Schulte (j.schulte@bath.ac.uk). We welcome both
academics (including PhD students) working in any field of Russian Jewish
Studies, and non-academics, such as creative writers, journalists, artists,
religious practitioners and others whose work is related to this general
theme.
List of current Network
Members:
Dr Glenda Abramson, University of Oxford, Oriental
Institute
Dr Daniel
Beer (Lecturer in Modern European History, Department of History, Royal
Holloway College,
UL): Russian Cultural History and Anthropology:
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century intellectual history; the human
sciences in revolutionary Russia;
the origins of totalitarianism; fin-de-siecle Europe.
Prof Michael
Berkowitz (Professor
of Modern Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University
College London): Modern Jewish identity formation and political
self-representations, 1881-1948; art, politics, and culture; the politics of
religion in Mandate Palestine; perceptions of social deviance among Jewry
from early modern times to the present; Jews and German culture; ties between
charity and nationalism; modes of understanding and mis-understanding the
Holocaust.
Dr Tobias Brinkmann (Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Associate Professor of Jewish
Studies and History Department of History and Religious Studies, Penn
State University): Russian-Jewish Studies: Jewish migrants in Berlin after the First World War; Modern
Jewish History, Ethnic History, Modern German and Central European History (Ethnicity,
Citizenship).
Dr Jonathan
Campbell (Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Judaism, Department of Theology
and Religious Studies, University of Bristol): Biblical Studies and
Judaism; The theological impact of academic study of the Bible and of Jewish
and Christian history on Judaism and Christianity in the contemporary world;
Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations in Europe from the theological perspective.
Dr Jordan
Finkin (Cowley Lecturer in
Post-Biblical Hebrew, Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Fellow of St. Cross College): Modern
Hebrew Literature; Special Interests: Hebrew and Yiddish Modernist Poetry,
Hebrew and Yiddish Linguistics.
Dr Jerold
Gotel (Lecturer, London Jewish Cultural Centre): Cultural and Social life
of the East European Jewry in the twentieth century; Cultural heritage and
ethnographic research.
Dr Raphael
Gross (Director, Leo Baeck Institute London for the study of the history
and culture of German-speaking Jewry): Jews in the context of Modern
European Cultural and Intellectual History, especially the ‘Jewish Question’,
the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory.
Dr Francois
Guesnet (Corob Lecturer in Modern
Jewish History, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College
London): Eastern European Jewish History and culture; comparative European
Jewish History.
Dr Lowenthal
(Lecturer
and Educator, Lubavitch's Foundation): Cultural History and Religious
Studies, Hassidic Movement and its role in the life of the East
European Jewry; relationship between Jewish religious theory and practice in Eastern
Europe.
Prof Susanne Marten-Finnis (institutional
partner, Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of
Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth): Post-Imperial
Identities in Europe, Language politics of Central and Eastern European Jewry
as it is reflected in the press before 1939; Periodical Culture of Russia Abroad
Dr Rudolph
Muhs (Lecturer in European History, Department of History, Royal Holloway
College, UL): European, particularly German history, including Cultural
History; Ideology, politics and society in the
nineteenth and twentieth century Europe.
Dr David
Rechter (Oxford University Research Lecturer, Fellow in Modern Jewish History
at St. Antony's College and Fellow in Modern Jewish History at the Oxford
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oriental Institute, University of
Oxford): Modern Jewish History and Politics; Jewish Politics and
Ideologies and the Jewish Question in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Prof Peter
Oppenheimer (President of the
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Chairman of the Jewish
Chronicle; for many years: a board member of Jewish Policy Research (formerly
the Institute of Jewish Affairs) in London): Economic Affairs of English
and Russian Jewry; Jewish life in Post-Soviet Russia.
Dr Maria
Rubins (Lecturer in Russian, SSEES, UCL): Russian-Jewish Literary Studies:
Russian émigré literature; Russian Jewish writers in exile;
Franco-Russian literary relations; Russian literature in the twentieth
century; the Silver Age in Russian culture.
Rabbi Aaron
Hersh (Director of Educational Programmes at the Jewish Learning Exchange
(JLE), London):
Diasporic cultures; History of Judaism; Religious consciousness of East
European Jews in the twentieth century.
- Academics
based outside the UK:
Prof
Hamutal Bar-Yossef,
P.O.B. 8529, Jerusalem 91085, www.bgu.ac.il/~baryosef
Prof
Albert I. Baumgarten,
Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University
Dr Konstantin Bondar (Lecturer in Jewish History, Cultural
Studies and Literature, Solomon University, East Ukrainian Branch, Kharkov,
Ukraine): Cultural continuity of Russian Jews; Russian-Jewish authors writing
in Hebrew – their work and lives; History of East European Jewry;
Jewish-Russian cultural relations, exchanges and mutual influences.
Prof Oleg
Budnitskii (institutional partner, Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute
of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Academic Director
of the International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies,
Moscow, Russia): Modern Russian and Russian Jewish History; Cultural
History and History of ideas in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.
Terrorism in the Russian Revolutionary Movement: Ideology, Ethics,
Psychology; Jewish contribution into Russian cultural and political heritage.
Dr Boris
Czerny (Senior Lecturer in Russian Language and Civilisation, Department of
Modern Languages, Université de Caen, France): Problems of
self-identification of Russian Jews in the twentieth century; Identity
Studies – theoretical problems in the Russian Jewish case study;
Cultural and literary history of Russian Jewry in France in the early
twentieth century; Fin-de-siecle: French and Russian Jewry in France.
Prof Igor
Dukhan (Head of the Arts and
Design Department and Centre for Visual Arts and Media at the Belarusian
State University, Minsk, Belarus): Philosophy and historical aspects of
modern and contemporary arts, architecture and design and problems of Jewish
art; Art and Press in the Jewish and Russian Émigré
Berlin and Paris.
Marta Drazynska, M.A, University of Poznan, Faculty of
Modern Languages
Dr Aminadav Dykman, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Faculty
of Humanities, Department of General and Comparative Literature
Prof Anat Feinberg, Hochschule für Jüdische
Studien, Heidelberg
Prof
Zsuzsa Hetényi
(institutional
partner, Professor at the
Institute for Slavic Studies at the University ELTE, Budapest,
and translator (Award by Academy
of Sciences, 2002),
editor of series Dolce Filologia, director of the MűMű
(Atelier of Poetic Translation)). The
author of 180 scholarly articles in six languages and a monograph on Biblical
and messianic motifs in I.Babel's ‘Red Cavalry’ (1991), and the editor and
co-author of the ‘History of the Russian Literature’ (I-II., 1997-2002). Her
‘In the Maelstrom. The history of the Russian-Jewish literature’ (in
Hungarian, 2000, in English 2008) is
the result of a 10-year research (grants: Swiss Confederation (Geneva
University, 1993-94 and the Soros Foundation (Florida International
University, 1996-97). Her main area of interest is Russian Prose of the 20th
century. Hetényi lectured and gave conference papers in Austria,
Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Israel, Lithuania, Russia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.
Prof Leonid
Katsis (Professor in the Department of Philology and History, The Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia):
History of anti-Semitism in Russia; Russian-Jewish relations and Russian
Jewish literature; The Ideological History of the
Blood Libel in Russian Orthodox Thought from ‘The Book of a Neophite Monk’ to
the ‘Beilis Trial’; Russian Jewish artists in the Pale of settlement and in
exile.
Prof
Vladimir Khazan (Professor in the Department
of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): History
of Russian Jewish Émigré literature, Russian-Jewish cultural
dialogue in the twentieth century; problems of Russian Jewish
self-identification in the Diaspora.
Prof Judith
Kornblatt (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA): Russian religious
thought and Russian Jewish identity in the twentieth century; Jews as members
of Russian intelligentsia in Russia and in exile; Jewish converts to
Christianity in Russia; Jews and the Russian Religious Renaissance.
Dr Oleg Kozerod, Academic Visitor of European Humanities Research
Centre of Oxford University, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper
"Russian-Jewish Achievements"
Prof Olga
Litvak (Associate
Professor; Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History, Clark
University, USA, the editor of
the "Painting and Sculpture" section of the YIVO Encyclopedia of East
European Jewry): Eastern European
and modern Jewish history; Literary and artistic life of Russian Jewry, urban
violence, war, revolution and migration; Jewish participation in the making
of modern Russian visual culture.
Prof Harriet
Murav (Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA): Russian
Jewish Literature and Culture; Comparative
Literature and Jewish Studies. Russia
and the Jews, 1920-2000: Language, Race, and Nation. Literary works in
Yiddish and Russian, focusing on the textual, linguistic, ideological, and
racialized production of the Jew's difference in Soviet Russia.
Prof Alice
Nakhimovsky (institutional partner, Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies,
Colgate University, USA, an editor of the YIVO
Encyclopaedia of East European Jewry): Russian Jewish Literature and
Identity; Jewish
perception and behaviour in everyday life; Food practices of Russian Jewry in
the twentieth century; Connections between Russian Jewish literature,
cultural self-identification and semiotics of behaviour.
Dr Jascha Nemtsov, School of
Jewish Studies, University of Potsdam
Dr Elena
Nosenko-Shteyn (Senior Research Fellow, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Russia):
Sociology, Psychology and Ethnographic Studies; Russian Jewish Folklore
and Jewish Festivals: theory, history and practice in the twentieth century;
cultural and psychological self-identification in Russian-Jewish
inter-marriages; Jewish music and dance.
Dr Mikhail
Parkhomovsky (Independent Scholar, Israel):
Editor of a book series dedicated to the Jewish contribution to Russian
culture in Russia
and in exile in the twentieth century.
Prof
Christina Parnell (Professor Emeritus in the School of Slavic
Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Erfurt University, Germany): Gender and
Identity Studies; Literary Theory; Russian Jewish Literature and Identity in
the twentieth century; Russian Jewish female writers in Russia and in exile.
Marianna Prigozhina, M.A., University of Potsdam (Moses
Mendelsssohn Zentrum), Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin
Prof Nils
Roemer (Associate Professor, School
of Arts and Humanities, University
of Texas at Dallas,
USA):
Russian-Jewish Studies: Intellectual History, Cultural Memory; Modern
Jewish, especially German Jewish, history; Jewish historiography, literature
and philosophy.
Prof Maxim D. Shrayer (Professor of Russian and English and Chair,
Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Boston
College, Boston, USA; see http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html and www.shrayer.com):
Jewish-Russian literary culture; Jewish writers of Russian and Eastern
European origin living and working
abroad; Jewish-Russian
contributions to Anglo-American literature; translation of Jewish-Russian
literature; legacy of the refusnik movement.
Prof Nikita
Struve (Director of the Russian book shop in Paris ‘Les Editeurs Reunis’ and
YMCA-Press Publisher; Professor Emeritus of the University Paris-X-Nanterre,
France): Cultural and Literary History of the first wave of Russian
emigration; Russian Émigré Periodicals in Paris in the
twentieth century; Russian Religious Philosophy and its development in exile.
Dr Olaf
Terpitz (Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish
History and Culture, Leipzig):
Russian and East European Jewry;
Russian
culture and literature;
Migration literature; Cultural transfer.
- Non-academics
based outside the UK:
Eli
Luksemburg (creative writer, member of the General Union of Writers of Israel
and of the International Association of Rusophone Writers), Israel: Literary
awards winning stories and novellas on the moral and ethical issues in the
context of Russian Jewish life of the last century; existential challenges of
Russian Jewish self-identification in the modernity; surviving exile;
Cultural and religious foundations of Russian Jewish psychology and semiotics
of behaviour.
David
Markish (institutional partner, creative writer and the chairman of the
Russian Language Section of the General Union of Writers of Israel and
vice-President of the International Association of Rusophone Writers, and the
Director of Perec Markish Centre, Israel (the surviving son of Perec Markish,
the chairman of the Jewish writers section of the Soviet Writers' Union; the
section was exterminated completely by Stalin)): Literary awards winning
biographical and historical novels and stories on Russian Jewish cultural
figures, especially artists; questions of self-identification of Russian Jews
in the twentieth century; cultural continuity in the Diaspora.
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