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The Experience of Russian Jews in an Era of
Social Change
Research
Project based at the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, Principal Investigator: Dr Peter Wagstaff Members:
External Advisors:
Responsibilities
and tasks of the Steering Committee Members: Steering
Committee members will plan and co-host the meetings and conferences taking
place during the 24-month project; offer academic leadership; liaise with the
network members, work on the programme of activities, developing it according
to their specialisms, and
contribute to the publications and dissemination activities.They
will be co-responsible for producing the edited volume of resulting
publications and a series of articles for internet publication. Finally, they
will ensure an effective dialogue and interchange of ideas between the
non-academic members of the network and the academics involved, and
facilitate the dissemination, publication and publicity of the network
activities in the wider public domain (i.e. in the non-academic world,
including the world of arts, literature and culture, both secular and
religious, social and political). Individual Information on the Steering
Committee Members and External Advisors: Dr Peter Wagstaff (Senior Lecturer in French Studies,
Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, the University of Bath,
England): Cultures of Exile,
European Border Crossings, War and Society in 20th-Century France; French
and French-Jewish Autobiographical Writings; Questions of memory and identity in European
literature, film and visual culture, including the photographic image and
documentary cinema. Dr Olga Tabachnikova (Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies, the
University of Bath, England, and an affiliated researcher at the Lev Shestov
Research Centre, the University of Glasgow, Scotland): Russian and Russian
Jewish literature, philosophy and cultural continuity; Russian Irrationalism
in Philosophy, Theology and the Arts. Prof Oleg Budnitskii (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. Prof
Zsuzsa Hetényi
(Professor at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University ELTE, David Markish (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 Prof Susanne Marten-Finnis (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 Prof Alice Nakhimovsky
(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. 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 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
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