Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

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According to Wikipedia, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is an American historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis Borges' works into Russian. He is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University where he teaches Early Modern, Modern and East European Jewish history.

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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern's Published Works

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Published Works

Lenin's Jewish Question (2010) (19)
The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew (2009) (15)
Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted Into Modernity (2014) (13)
The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe (2014) (10)
The "Jewish Policy" of the Late Imperial War Ministry: The Impact of the Russian Right (2002) (9)
Contextualizing the Mystery: Three Approaches to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2003) (8)
Hasidism, Havurot, and the Jewish Street (2004) (7)
Reconceptualizing the Alien: Jews in Modern Ukrainian Thought (2015) (7)
The Master of an Evil Name: Hillel Baעal Shem and His Sefer ha-Ḥeshek (2004) (7)
Military Service in Russia (2008) (6)
Hasidei de'ar‘a and Hasidei dekokhvaya’: Two Trends in Modern Jewish Historiography (2008) (5)
4. "We Are Too Late": An-sky and the Paradigm of No Return (2006) (4)
An unlikely alliance: The 1907 Ukrainian-Jewish electoral coalition (2009) (4)
Weekly Torah Portions, Languages, and Culture Among Israeli Haredim (2004) (3)
Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry (2013) (3)
Russian Legislation and Jewish Self-Governing Institutions: The case of Kamenets-Podol’sk, essay, and The Minute-book of the Kamnits (Kamenets) Burial Society (2006) (2)
On the Other Side of Despair (2015) (2)
Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (2016) (2)
Jews in Ukrainian Thought: Between the 1940s and the 1990s (2004) (2)
The Drama of Berdichev: Levy Yitshak and His Town (2004) (2)
On the Other Side of Despair: Cossacks and Jews in Yuri Kosach's The Day of Rage (2015) (1)
How Lenin Became Blank (2010) (1)
"You will find it in the pharmacy": Practical Kabbalah and natural medicine in the Polish-lithuanian commonwealth, 1690-1750 (2011) (1)
The Revival of Academic Studies of Judaica in Independent Ukraine (2003) (1)
’You Will Find it in the Pharmacy:’ Slavic-Jewish Contacts in the Field of Practical Magic and Popular Medicine (2008) (1)
The Art of Shifting Contexts (2017) (1)
On Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Middle Path' (2005) (1)
THE MARKETPLACE IN BALTA (2007) (1)
The Guardians of Faith, or Jewish Self-Governing Societies in the Russian Army: The case of Briansk 35th regiment (2002) (1)
In search of a lost people: Jews in present‐day Ukrainian historiography (2003) (1)
Hasidei de-ara and hasidei de-yarkha: Two trends in Modern Jewish Historiography (2006) (0)
The Anti-Imperial Choice (2017) (0)
Spanish in the Zohar (2004) (0)
Dual Identity Revisited: The Case of Russian-Jewish Soldiers (2004) (0)
Chapter nine. If I Forget Thee (2015) (0)
Being for the Victims (2009) (0)
Love and Hatred: Satirical Origins of Neo-Hasidism (2005) (0)
Vrag roda chelovecheskogo:’ o ‘protokol’noi’ paradigme v russkom obschestvennom soznanii,” (’The Enemy of the Humanity:’ On the Paradigm of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russian Mentality) (2005) (0)
Two Subalterns in an Imperial Context: The 1907 Ukrainian-Jewish electoral coalition (2006) (0)
Ba’alei Shem (2008) (0)
A Redeeming Context: Hasidic Piety and East European Jewish Book Culture (2009) (0)
Between Two Worlds: An-sky and the Russian-Jewish Culture (2001) (0)
Writing the Body (2009) (0)
Jews, Russians, and Polish szlachta in the shtetl (2011) (0)
Chapter four. The Right to Drink (2015) (0)
From the Literary Legacy of Hryts’ko Kernerenko (2005) (0)
The Tales and Myths (2015) (0)
Chapter one. Russia Discovers Its Shtetl (2015) (0)
You Will Find it in the Pharmacy: Practical Kabbalah and Natural Medicine in Polish Lithuanian (2011) (0)
Jewish Apples and Muslim Oranges in the Russian Basket: Options and Limits of a Comparative Approach (2015) (0)
Russian Legislation and Jewish Self-Government: the Case of Kamenets-Podol’skii (1996) (0)
Jewish Experiences in the Russian Army, 1827-1917 (2012) (0)
Ukraine Jewish Culture (2005) (0)
Chapter two. Lawless Freedom (2015) (0)
The Enemy of the Humanity: The Anti-Napoleon Paradigm in Russian Imagination and the Genesis of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2010) (0)
Introduction. What’s in a Name? (2015) (0)
25 “Context is Everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky (2015) (0)
“’Nalezhaty do tykh, koho vbyvaiut’. . . : vnutrishnii vybir Leonida Pervomais’koho,” Judaica Ucrainica (Kyiv) (2012) (0)
Sabbateanism, the Doenme sect, and the Rise of racial Discourse in the Ottoman Empire (2008) (0)
Folkways and Fantasies (2015) (0)
Polin Studies in Polish Jewry: Jews and Ukrainians (2013) (0)
The Anti-Colonialist Modernity: Zmitrok Biadulia and the Making of a Belorussian Jew (2007) (0)
Evreiskii vopros Leninu: Moscow & Jerusalem: Gesharim (2012) (0)
Chapter eight. Open House (2015) (0)
Prakticheskaia kabbala i narodnaia meditsyna: pol’skie ba’alei shem” (Practical Kabbalah and PopularMedicine: the Case of Polish Ba’alei Shem) (2006) (0)
Iak Lenin stav Blankom (a Ukrainian version of chapter 5 of Lenin’s Jewish Question) (2013) (0)
Image of "the Other" in Post-1991 Ukrainian Literature (2010) (0)
Shtetl and its Books (2000) (0)
Novitnii Moisei: ukrains’ko-ievreis’kyi poet u protsessi stanovlennia, (A New Moses: a Ukrainian-Jewish poet in the making; an expanded Ukrainian version of the 2004 English article published in East European Jewish Affairs) (2006) (0)
The Literary and the Historical: Reflections on a Jewish Memoir (2005) (0)
What Did They Read: The Shtetl and Its Hasidic Books (2007) (0)
Istoriia evreev Rossii (A History of Jews in Russia) (2010) (0)
The Construction of the Ukrainian-Jewish Identity: The case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko (2004) (0)
“Ukrains’ka politychna dumka pro Holokost: dva napriamky,” (Ukrainian Political Thought on the Holocaust: Two Tendencies) (2003) (0)
Solomon Schechter's Art of Hasidism: Tradition, Parody, and Transmission (2018) (0)
Chapter seven. Family Matters (2015) (0)
Chapter five. A Violent Dignity (2015) (0)
Jews and Christians in the Venetian Ghetto: The birth of the early modern Jewish ethnography from the spirit of a travelogue (2012) (0)
Russkii Dibbuk: Obrazy i perevoploshchenia (The Russian Dybbuk: images and metamorphosis) (2006) (0)
The Revival of Judaic Studies in Post-Communist Ukraine (1999) (0)
The Construction of an Improbable Identity: The Case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko (2005) (0)
What was a Jewish Tavern? Presentation at the panel Jews and Vodka (2010) (0)
Visual and Auditory in Early Modern Jewish Culture (2004) (0)
“Life and Thought” (1987) (0)
Isaak Vavilonskii: iazyk i stil’ v Odesskikh rasskazakh Babelia (Isaac of Babylonia: language and style in Babel’s Odessa Stories) (2004) (0)
Jews and the Army: Social and Cultural Aspects, and Slavic-Jewish Contacts in the Realm of Practical (2009) (0)
Jews, Military Service, and Collective Belonging: From Antiquity to the Present (2012) (0)
Conclusion. The End of the Golden Age (2015) (0)
Chapter ten. The Books of the People (2015) (0)
Cultural Archaeology in the Study of Jewish-Slavic Encounter and Cultural Archaeology of Jews and Slavs (2011) (0)
Ukrainian Imagination and the Holocaust as expressed in Ukrainian Literature under Soviet Censorship (2008) (0)
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern interview, "Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917" (2009) (0)
Survival, Spirit, Dreams, Nightmares (2014) (0)
’We Are Too Late’: Shloyme Ansky and his Paradigm of No Return (2006) (0)
The Word Embodied and Reincarnated (2016) (0)
Jews in the Russian army : through the military towards modernity (1827-1914) (2000) (0)
From Nowhere to Zhitomir (2010) (0)
Pravo na charku: korchmy, shynkari i horilchana viina u shtetli (Volyns’ka, Podil’ska ta Kyivs’ka hubernii, 1790-1840) (2013) (0)
Preface to Ben-Yakov, “In der tzukunft-shtot Edenya" (2014) (0)
Between Two Fires (2009) (0)
The Imperial Moshko (2010) (0)
The Anti-Imperial Choice: the case of the 20th century Ukrainian-Jewish writers,” paper presented at Polish and European Center (2008) (0)
Odissei sredi kentavrov, (Ulysses among the Centaurs: Jews and Cossacks in Babel’s Red Cavalry) (2001) (0)
A Prayer for Ukraine (2009) (0)
Towards a Conceptualization of Jewish memoir (2004) (0)
The Jewish Cantonists: Beyond the Lachrymose Legend: 1827—1871 (2002) (0)
Lenin’s Jewish Question,” “Ukrainian-Jewish Messianism: the Case of Moisei Fishbein (2011) (0)
’The Enemy of the Humanity:’ Napoleon Bonaparte and the Genesis of the Protocols (2004) (0)
The Dybbuk in the Context of Ansky’s 1911—1913 Expedition (1997) (0)
Lenin, Jews, and Power (2010) (0)
The expansion of the visual: Reflections on sixteenth century illuminated Yiddish books (2006) (0)
An Imperial Court vs. a Colonial Ghetto: East European Jews and Postcolonial Discourse (2006) (0)
Chapter three. Fair Trade (2015) (0)
War and peace of Iosif Trumpeldor: From zionist hagiography to cultural history (2021) (0)
The Dead Jews: A Reflection on two Models of Useable Past (2015) (0)
Glue for the Vertebrae (2010) (0)
Do ievreis’ko-ukrains’koho dialohu: Roman Rakhmannyi,” (Toward a Ukrainian-Jewish Dialogue: The Case of Roman Rakhmanny) (2004) (0)
Orientalizm i cherta osedlosti: russkii puteshestvennik v mestechke (pervaia chetvert’ 19-go veka) (2009) (0)
Stories of National Survival: Memoirs of Jewish and Ukrainian Political Prisoners in the Brezhnev Era (2010) (0)
Dubnow of Hasidism and Dubnow at 150 (2010) (0)
The new moses: A Ukrainian–Jewish poet in the making (2004) (0)
The Minute Book of the Guardians of Faith Society (2004) (0)
Chapter six. Crime, Punishment, and a Promise of Justice (2015) (0)
11. On the Other Side of Despair (2020) (0)
A Search for a Non-Colonial Framework: Yiddish Writers in Ukrainian Press, 1924-1933 (2005) (0)
From the Shtetl with Love: An Episode in Ukrainian-Jewish Literary History (2008) (0)
Sud’ba ‘srednei linii (The Fate of the Middle Path: On Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together) (2001) (0)
What was the Shtetl and Practical Kabbalah in East Europe (2011) (0)
The Ukrainian-Jewish Identity: The case of Political, Business, and Cultural Elites (2004) (0)
A Cultural Archaeology of East European Practical Kabbalah (2010) (0)
A Messiah from Czernowitz (2009) (0)
Jews, Christians, and the Languages of the Practical Kabbalah (2005) (0)
‘Guardians of the Faith’ Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: The Case of the 35th Briansk Regiment (2000) (0)
Ukrainian-Jewish Historiography (2009) (0)
Mapping the Field (2014) (0)
Hasidism and havurot (1997) (0)
Tales, Myths, and Nightmares (2012) (0)

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