Academic Board

The International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies functions under the guidance of its international academic board, which includes leading scholars and researchers in the Center’s field.

Oleg Budnitskii, Professor of History; Senior Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences; Editor-in-Chief of the annual Arkhiv Evreiskoi Istorii (The Archive of Jewish History); Academic Director, International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies and Chairman of the Academic Board of the Center. Author of numerous publications on political history of Russia and Russian Jewry of the second half of the 19th century ? early 20th century, including Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites (2005).

Boris Anan’ich, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg); Professor, St. Petersburg State University. Author of numerous publications on economic and political history of Russia of the second half of the 19th century   early 20th century, including those on the history of Jewish entrepreneurship.

Israel Bartal, Dean of the Humanities Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Director of the Polish Center of Hebrew University; Co-Director of the Center of Jewish Studies and Jewish Civilization, Moscow State University; Co-Director of Bible and Hebrew Studies Center, St. Petersburg State University; Editor-in-Chief of Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta (Journal of Jewish University). Author of The Jews of Eastern Europe. 1772 – 1881. (2005).

Rafail Ganelin, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg); Professor of the European University at St. Petersburg. Author of numerous publications on the History of Russia of late 19th - early 20th century, and the Russo-American relations, as well as on history and historiography of the Russian Jewry in the 19th- 20th centuries.

David Gaunt, Professor, Sodertorn University College, Stockholm. Expert in the history of Baltic States and East European Jewry. Co-editor of Collaboration and Resistance During the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (2004). Currently completed his work on comparative analysis of the Jews of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire.

Aleksandr Kamenskii, Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval History of Russia at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Author of fundamental works on history of Russia in the 18th century.

Viktor Kelner, Doctor of History, Senior Fellow, Russian National Library, St. Petersburg;Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg Judaica Center. Author and editor of numerous publications on history and historiography of the Russian Jewry in the 19th - early 20th centuries. Has published the first academic edition of Kniga Zhizni (The Book of Life) of the famous Jewish historian Semion Dubnov.

John Klier (1944-2007), Professor at University College, London. One of the leading experts in history of the Russian Jewry. Author of Russia Gathers Her Jews (1985), Imperial Russia’s Jewish Question (1995).

Mikhail Krutikov, Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Cultures and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). One of the leading experts in Yiddish language and culture. Author of Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905–1914 (2001).

Victoria Mochalova, Ph.D. in Philology. Director, Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Sefer; Senior Fellow and Head of the Department of Slavic and Jewish Studies, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Expert in history and literature of Poland, history of the Jewry in Poland in the 16th - 18th centuries.

Benjamin Nathans, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Specialist in history of Russia, history and historiography of the Russian Jewry. Author of Beyond the Pale (2002), a study of the life of the Jews outside the Pale of Settlement.

Vladimir Petrukhin, Doctor of History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow); Professor, Semion Dubnov University (former Jewish University in Moscow). A renowned expert in the history of Jewry in Ancient Russia and the history of Khazars.

Szymon Rudnitsky, Professor of history at Warsaw University. Expert in the History of Polish Jewry. Author of Zydzi w Parlamencie 11 Rzeczypospolitej (2004).

Gabriella Safran, , Professorat Stanford University (USA), the director of Stanford's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Scholar of literature - Russian, Polish, and Yiddish. Author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (2000) about the depictions of Jewish assimilation in the literatures of the Russian Empire in the late 19th century (G. Bogrov, E. Orzeszkowa, N. Leskov, A. Chekhov). Now she is writing a literary biography of S. An-sky, the author of the classic Yiddish play "The Dybbuk".

Alexander Stepansky, Professor, the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH); Editor-in-Chief of Vestnik Arkhivista (the Journal of Archivist), former Head of the Department of Archeography at RSUH of many years. Expert in the history of Russian state institutions in the beginning of the 20th century, and in history of the Russian Jewry.

Jonathan Frankel, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author of Prophecy and Politics (1981), the classic study dedicated to the history of national Jewish movement in Russia and Poland in the second half of the 19th century - early 20th century. Leading expert in the history of Russian and East European Jewry.

Nikolai Tsimbayev, Professor, Moscow State University. Expert in the history of social thought in 19th century Russia and national policy of the Russian Empire.

Steven Zipperstein, Professor and Director of the Taube Judaica Center at Stanford University. Author of numerous publications on the history and historiography of the Russian Jewry, including Jews in Odessa: A Cultural History (1985). Coeditor (with Aron Rodrigue) of Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture and Society.

Gennady Estraikh, Visiting Associated Professor of Yiddish Studies at New York University. One of the leading experts in Yiddish language and culture. A Yiddish writer. Author of In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism (2005).

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