Jews in the East European borderlands
Subtitle: essays in honor of John D. Klier
By: edited by Eugene M. Avrutin and Harriet Murav
Contributors: Klier, John, honouree
Series: Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish studies; Borderlines (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781936235599; 9781618110510
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Antisemitism; Congresses; Jews; History
Notes: Papers of the international conference held in April 2009 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History, culture, and everyday life. The Mariinsko Sergievskii Shelter for Converted Jewish Children in St. Petersburg / Chae Ran Y. Freeze; title: Yiddish in imperial Russia's civil society / Gennady Estraikh; title: Ansky in Liozno: "Sins of Youth" and the archival diary / Gabriella   Safran; title: In the evil kingdom of things: Sholem-Aleichem and the writing of everyday life in Jewish literature / Olga Litvak; title: A paper life: model letters and real letters as a key to Russian-Jewish aspirations at the turn of the twentieth century / Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman; title: Upheaval, violence, and antisemitism. Violence and the migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer; title: Uses and abuses: "pogrom" in the Anglo-American imagination, 1881 - 1919 / Sam Johnson; title: Jews in the East European borderlands. Look! Up there in the sky: it's a vulture, it's a bat . . . It's a Jew. Reflections on antisemitism in late imperial Russia, 1906 - 1914 / Robert Weinberg; title: Shots in the back: on the origin of the Anti-Jewish pogroms of 1918 - 1921/ Oleg Budnitskii; title: Between external persecution and national renaissance : Simon Dubnow's lachrymose vision of Russian-Jewish History / Joshua M. Karlip; title: Soviet Holocaust photography and landscapes of emptiness / David Shneer; title: Transformed myths in verse: Boris Slutsky's three Holocaust poems and the question of violence / Marat Grinberg.