Researches

The history and culture of Russian and East European Jewry is studied by few Russian and foreign researchers working in various scientific and educational establishments. Names of some of these researchers, fields of their interests and the names of the scientific and educational establishments they are working in are given below. Unfortunately, we can not display here researchers’ personal e-mails, that is why, should you wish to contact a researcher, you are welcome to direct your inquiries to our Center. We will assist you in the exchange of scientific knowledge and we will help you in finding answers to all the arising questions.

Avrus Anatoly Ihilievich – a professor of the department of contemporary domestic history of Saratov State University; he is a specialist in the history of political parties, in the history of the socialists’-revolutionists’ party, in M. Chernov’s life and professional activity, in the history of Russian universities.

Anan’ich Boris Vasilievich – academician, Institute of history, Russian Academy of Sciences ( St.Petersburg), a specialist in economic history.

Akhiezer Alexander Samoilovich – PhD in philosophy, professor; a specialist in the field of anti-Semitism in Russia

Belova Olga Vladislavovna – PhD in history, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in Slavic studies, in Ethno-Slavic studies, in traditional spiritual culture of Slavic people, in ethno-cultural contacts between Slavs and Jews of Eastern Europe ( in the field of traditional beliefs, ceremonial rites and the study of rituals).

Binevich Evgenii Mikhailovich – a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish theatre in Russia, St. Petersburg

Bobrov Igor Vladimirovich – a specialist in the field of national relations and national policy in the USSR and in Russia; Tumen

Brutskaya Mariana Vladimirovna – a specialist in the field of Jewish art, St. Petersburg

Budnitskitskii Oleg Vitalievich – PhD in history, the Academic Director of the International Center for Russian & East European Jewish Studies, a specialist in the history of Russia and Russian Jewry

Burmistrov Konstantin Yurievich – a specialist in the field of Cabbala and its influence on European culture

Varfolomeev Yuri – Saratov State University, assistant, a specialist in the history of Russia (beginning of the 20th century)

Vasserman Yuri Mikhailovich – PhD in economics, a specialist in the history of Jewish civilization, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, Perm

Vikhnovich Vsevolod Lvovich – a specialist in the field of Karaims’ history, of the history of Judaic communities in ancient Russia, of the history of Jews in the Civil war in Russia, and of Holocaust; St. Petersburg

Vorobiev Anatoly Borisovich – a specialist in the field of Jewish genealogy and history, Moscow

Ganelin Rafail Sholomovich – Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, the European University, St. Petersburg; a specialist in the history of Russia and Russian Jewry

Gatagova Ludmila Sultanovna – PhD in history, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the conflict aspect in inter-ethnic relations in the Russian Empire of the second half of the 19th –beginning of the 20th century (including ethno-phobia) and processes of ethnic self-identification and national movements in the Russian Empire in the end of the 19th –beginning of the 20th century

Geizer Matvey Moiseevich – PhD in philology, a specialist in the field of Jewish culture on the Russian background and in the field of Russian-Jewish literature (20th century) Moscow

Gerasimov Ilya – PhD in history, Ab Imperio magazine, Kazan State University, a specialist in the field of history of Russia (20th century) and in the field of Jewish organized crime in Odessa in the beginning of the 20th century

Gessen Valery Yulievich – PhD in economics, a specialist in the field of the history of St.Petersburg Jewish religious community and in the field of Gessens’ family history

Gorizontov Leonid Efimovich – PhD in history, the head of a department in the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of history of the Russian Empire, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus of the end of the 18th-beginning of the 20 century, in the field of national policies, in the field of the history of Slavic studies.

Guralnik Leonid Yurievich – a specialist in the field of Jewish musical folklore and professional music, St. Petersburg

Dimshitz Valery Aronovich – PhD in chemistry, a specialist in the field of Jewish ethnography and folklore, Yiddish and literature in Yiddish, in the field of the history of Jewish art, in the history of converts to Judaism in Russia, St. Petersburg

Zaveryaev Maxim Igorevich – a specialist in the field of the history of Karaims’ communities in the Eastern Europe, Moscow

Zaretskiy Yuri Petrovich – PhD in history, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish autobiographical compositions of the middle ages and early middle times and in the field of Jews’ life in Taganrog ( 19th-20th centuries) (regional history), Moscow

Ivanov Anatoly Evgenievich – PhD in history, Senior Fellow, Institute of Russian History, Russian academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish students’ life in the Russian Empire, Moscow

Ivanov Vladislav Vasilievich – PhD in the study of art, a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish theater in Russia, Moscow

Kalmina Lilia Vladimirovna – Irkutsk State University, a specialist in the pre-revolutionary history of Jewish communities of the Eastern Siberia

Kamensky Alexander Borisovich – PhD in history, professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, a specialist in the history of Russia of the 18th century

Kantor Alexander Matveevich – PhD in history, a specialist in the field of the history and theory of culture, Jewish identity in Russia, psychology, Moscow

Kaplanov Rashid Muradovich – the “SEFER” center, the chairman of the Academic council, Moscow

Kaspina Maria Mikhailovna – PhD in philology, a specialist in the field of Jewish folklore, the history of the Agada literature, the transformation of biblical plots in Jews’ and Slavs’ literature and folklore, Moscow

Kats Evgeny Lvovich – a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in Russia, the history of Jews in Tula and Kursk provinces, the communities of the converts to Judaism , Tula

Katsis Leonid Fridovich – PhD in philology, Centre of the Bible studies and Judaica, Russian State University for the Humanities, a specialist in the field of Russian-Jewish culture, the history of the blood libel in the Russian Empire and in the countries of the Eastern and Central Europe, of the Judaic semantics of the Jewish avant-garde

Kelner Viktor Efimovich – PhD in history, Senior Fellow, Russian National Library, a specialist in the field of Russian Jewry( 19th-20th centuries)

Kobrinsky Alexander Arkadievich – PhD in philology, a specialist in the field of Russian-Jewish literature and Russian-Jewish cultural links, St. Petersburg

Kovaliov Boris Nikolaevich – PhD in history, a specialist in the field of the Holocaust history on the territory of Russia, Veliky Novgorod

Kozachek Ekaterina Vladimirovna – a specialist in the field of in the history of source study on the history of Jews in the North Caucuses, Krasnodar

Kostirchenko Gennady Vasilievich – PhD in history, Institute of Russian History Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in the USSR and anti-Semitism, Moscow

Kupovetsky Mark Semionovich - Centre of the Bible studies and Judaica, Russian State University for the Humanities

Likhachev Viacheslav Andreevich – PhD in history, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in Russia and the history of Jews in Eastern Europe

Lokshin Alexander Efimovich – PhD in history, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Lvov Alexander Leonidovich – a specialist in the field of Jewish medieval literature, ethnography and religion study, St. Petersburg

Milyakova Lidia Borisovna – PhD in history, Institute of Slavic studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the contemporary history of Poland

Mindlin Alexander Borisovich – a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in Russia (1762-1917), Moscow

Movshovich Evgeny Veniaminovich – professor, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in the South of Russia, Rostov-na-Donu

Mogilner Marina Borisovna – PhD in history, Ab Imperio magazine, Kazan University

Morozov Konstantin Nikolaevich – PhD in history, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in Russia and in the USSR, Moscow

Mochalova Victoria Valentinovna – Ph.D. in Philology, Senior Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the SEFER Center, a specialist in the field of Polish Jewry

Novikov Alexander Pavlovich – associate professor, Saratov State Technical university, a specialist in the field of the history of political parties, in the history of the socialists’-revolutionists’ party, in M. Chernov’s life and professional activity, the history of Saratov area, the history of Saratov Eparchy

Pivovar Efim Iosifovich – PhD in history, professor, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews of Russia (20th century), Moscow

Petrukhin Vladimir Yakovlevich – PhD in history, professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in the Kiev and Moscow Russia, Khazars

Polyan Pavel Markovich – PhD in geography, professor, Senior Fellow, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, assistant chairman of the Mandelshtam society; Jewish emigration in Russia and the USSR, Jewish immigrants’ integration in Israel, in the USA and Germany, Holocaust. Soviet prisoners of war and ostarbeiters of the Jewish origin, compensations for the Jewish victims of the national-socialists’ persecutions. Jews in the Russian literature ( Mandelshtam, B. Lifshitz, V. Parnah, A. Steinberg).

Pudalov Boris Moiseevich – PhD in philology, a specialist in Jews of the Central Russia according to the archive documents and local periodicals, Nigny Novgorod

Rabinovich Vladimir Yulievich – PhD in history, a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish community in pre-revolutionary Irkutsk and in the field of Holocaust, Irkutsk

Rivkina Rozalina Vladimirovna – PhD in economics, a specialist in the field of social problems of Russian Jewry, Moscow

Serov Boris – a graduate of the department of history of Southern and Northern Slavs, Moscow State University, at the present moment he is writing a dissertation under M.V. Dmitriev’s guidance (PhD in history, professor, Moscow State University); the topic of the dissertation is “The problem of tolerance in the East European religious literature of the 16th – first half of the 17th century (on the example of the attitude towards Jews)”.

Sinelnikov Alexander Borisovich – PhD in psychology, a specialist in the field of the national psychology

Simonova Anna – PhD in history – Director of the “Jerusalem University friends’ Russian Society”, a specialist in the field of documents on the history of Jews of the Eastern Europe included into the trophies collections of the Russian Archive

Snopov Yuri Anatolievich – a specialist in the field of Soviet Jewry, Moscow

Sobkin Vladimir Samuilovich – PhD in psychology, Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the field of sociological studies of the Jewish population of Russia and in the field of psychology, Moscow

Sokolova Alla Vladimirovna – a specialist in the field of the synagogue architecture and of the ordinary traditional buildings of the Jewish shtetl and in the field of the folk Jewish art , St. Petersburg

Stepansky Alexander Davidovich – PhD in history, professor, editor-in-chief of the “Vestnik Arkhivista” magazine, a specialist in the field of Russian Jewry, Moscow

Tabak Yuri Mikhailovich – a leading specialist in the field of the Judaism-Christian dialogue in Russia

Uritskaya Ludmila Borisovna – a specialist in the field of the ethnography of the Pale on the materials of the An-sky collection, St. Petersburg

Feldman Dmitry Zakharovich – PhD in history, Central State Archive of Ancient Acts

Khaesh Anatoly Ilyich – Senior Fellow, St. Petersburg Judaica Institute, a specialist in the field of historical local studies, genealogy, the history of Jewish families.

Tsimbayev Nikolai Ivanovich – PhD in history, professor, a specialist in the field of the Jewish-Russian relations in the 19th -20th centuries, Moscow

Charny semion Alexandrovich – a specialist in the field of soviet and post-soviet Jewry, Moscow

Chernenko Miron Markovich – PhD in art studies, a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish cinema on the territory of the Russian Empire and the USSR, of the history of the Jewish cinema in the USA Diaspora, pre-war Poland, Baltic countries, Austria and in the field of the interaction between Jewish cinema and closely related sciences, Moscow

Chlenov Mikhail Anatolievich – professor, a specialist in the field of ethnography and sociology of the Jewish population of the USSR and in the field of Hebrew, Moscow

Shkurko Emma – a specialist in the field of the history of Jews of the Bashkortostan

Shpagin Sergey Alexeevich – PhD in history, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews of the Don river, of the North Caucuses, Holocaust, the State of Israel, Rostov-na-Donu

Eliasberg Galina Arkadievna – PhD in philology, a specialist in the field of the history of Jewish literature in Yiddish and in the field of S.L.Tsinberg’s life and scientific heritage, Moscow

Eliashevich Dmitri Arkadievich – PhD in history, a specialist in the field of the history of Jews in the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg

Bartal, Israel – professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a specialist in the field of Polish Jewry

Dakin, Mary I. – Center for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University

Eistreikh, Gennadiy – professor, the Oxford University of Hebrew studies and Judaica, a specialist in the field of Jewish literature and Yiddish

Frankel, Jonathan – professor, Institute of Languages, Literature and Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a specialist in the field of Russian Jewry

Gaunt, David - professor, Baltic and East European Graduate School, Sodertorns University College, a specialist in the field of Polish Jewry

Khazan, Vladimir – Department of Russian and Slavic Studies The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Klier John – professor, Modern History Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College, London, a specialist in the field of Russian Jewry of the 19th-20th centuries

Krutikov, Mikhail – Dr, Department of Slavic Languages and Cultures and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, a specialist in the field of literature and Yiddish

Nathans, Benjamin – Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, specialist in the field of Russian Jewry ( 18th-20th centuries)

Polonsky Antony – Professor, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Rudnitskiy, Shimon – Professor, Warsaw University, a specialist in the field of Polish Jewry

Slezkine, Yuri – Professor, Department of History, University of California

Zipperstein, Steven – Professor, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, a specialist in the field of Russian Jewry

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