Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Pre-Modern and Modern Eastern Europe; Jewish history

Office: 103B Harris
Phone: 847-467-3399
E-mail: ypsnorthwestern.edu

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Moscow University (1988) and a Ph.D. in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University (2001). He has been a Rothchild Fellow at Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and is now an Associate Fellow at Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. He has edited books and published numerous articles in comparative literature and is the author of a monograph Evrei v Russkoi Armii, 1827-1914 [Jews in the Russian Army] (2003). He wrote chapters for the books "Military and Society in Russia, 1450-1917" (2002), "Jewish Life after the USSR: A Community in Transition" (2003), "Between Two Worlds: Ansky and Russian Jewish Culture" (2005). His articles on pre-modern and modern Jewish history have appeared in "KRITIKA: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History," "POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry," "East European Jewish Affairs," "Jewish Social Studies," "Association of Jewish Studies Review," "Ab Imperio," "Jewish Quarterly Review," "Ukrainian Quarterly," and others. At present he is working on a book project "Drafted into Modernity: Jews in the Russian Army (1827-1917)."

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