Winners of the 2005 Competition

Grant Program

I. Category:
Research on the Russian and East European Jewish culture and history.

Winners:

Evgeny Alexandrovich Gollerbakh, Ph.D. in Philology, Senior Academic Associate at the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg). Topic: Aaron Perelman. My Memoirs. Preparation of the text and commentaries.

Vladislav Vasilievich Ivanov, Doctor of Art Studies, Head of the Theater Department at the State Institute for Art Studies (Moscow). Topic: GOSET: Politics and Art. 1919 – 1928.

Evgenia Victorovna Ivanova, Doctor of Philology, Leading Academic Associate at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Topic: The Odessa Years of Vladimir Zhabotinsky.

Maria Mikhailovna Kaspina, Ph.D. in Philology, Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Topic: A Complex Study of the Contemporary Ethno-Linguistic Tradition of the Bukovina Jews.

Zoya Buttaevna Ramazanova, Ph.D. in History, Senior Academic Associate of the Department of Ethnography at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Dagestan Academic Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Makhachkala). Topic: Traditional Foods of the Mountain Jews.

Dmitry Zakharovich Feldman, Ph.D. in History, Chief Specialist at the Russian State Archive of Early Acts (RGADA, Moscow). Topic: History of Rewarding the Jews for Military and Civilian Attainments before the State in Early XX century (On the Basis of Archival Materials).

II. Category:
Publication of manuscripts on the problems of the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture.

Winners:

Irina Atykovna Azizian, Doctor of Art Studies, Head of the Department of Theory of Architecture at the Research Institute for Theory of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (Moscow). Topic: Alexander Bykhovsky: Stages of Work and Being.

Alla Victorovna Sokolova, Ph.D. in Architecture, Senior Academic Associate at the St.Petersburg Judaica Center for Study of Monuments of Jewish Culture and Creation of the Jewish Museum (St. Petersburg). Monograph Traits of Settlement. Architectural Appearances and House-Building Traditions of the Shtetlakh of Podolia (LateXVIII – Early XX Centuries).

III. Category:
Completion of dissertation research on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture.

Winners:

Maya Victorovna Vitenberg, Ph.D. student at the European University in St. Petersburg. Topic: The Jewish Community and the Authorities in 1880s.

Anna Yurievna Sorokina, Associate Professor at the Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Topic: Influence of the Slavic Languages upon Yiddish. The Lexico-Morphological Aspect.

IV. Category:
Development of defended Ph.D. theses on the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture into monographs.

Winners:

Anna Vladimirovna Yampolskaia, Ph.D. in Philology, Professor at the Academic Center for Phenomenological Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Topic of the dissertation: Freedom and Subjectivity in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. The title of the monograph is Emmanuel Levinas. Measurelessness in the World of Measures.

V. Category:
Grants to participate in conferences and seminars.

Winners:

Olga Vladislavovna Belova, Ph.D. in Philology, Senior Academic Associate at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). International conference Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century, Stockholm, 21-24 May, 2005. Topic: Anti-Jewish Violence in Folk Narratives of the Slavs.

Vladimir Prokhorovich Buldakov, Doctor of History, Senior Academic Associate at the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). International conference Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century, Stockholm, 21-24 May, 2005. Topic: Freedom, shortage, violence: the origin of “revolutionary” pogrom in Russia, 1917-18).

Liudmila Sultanovna Gatagova, Ph.D. in History, Senior Academic Associate at the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). International conference Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century, Stockholm, 21-24 May, 2005. Topic: Anti-Semitism and Pogroms in the North Caucasus in the Context of Caucasian Phobias (the 1920s).

Victoria Ivanovna Zhuravleva, Ph.D. in History, Professor at the Chair of World Policy and Population of the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). International conference Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century, Stockholm, 21-24 May, 2005. Topic: Anti-Jewish Violence in Russia and American Missionary Activity, 1881-1917.

Lilia Vladimirovna Kal’mina. Doctor of History, Senior Academic Associate at the Institute for Mongol, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Ulan-Ude). International conference Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing “the Pogrom” in European History, 17th-20th Century, Stockholm, 21-24 May, 2005. Topic: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Eastern Siberia : the Possibility of Impossible.

Konstantin Burmistrov, Ph.D., research assistant in Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Librarian of the Oriental Centre, Russian State Library , Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19-22 November, 2005. Topic: Kabbalistic Sources of Russian Religious Philosophy and Mysticism: Some Preliminary Observations.

Gennady Kostyrchenko, Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, The international scientific conference The Holocaust in the USSR in the mirror of scientific researches and teaching" (within the framework of the Hungarien-Russian artseason), Hungary, Budapest, 2–3 December, 2005. Topic: The Attitude of the Soviet Authorities to the Holocaust and to the Memory of It within and after the 2 WW Time.

VI. Category:
Scholarships for students of higher education establishments, students of Master’s  and Ph.D. programs who specialize in the Russian and East European Jewish history and culture.

Olga Yurievna Minkina, 1st-year Ph.D. student at the Department of History of the European University in St. Petersburg. Topic of the dissertation: Jewish Deputations in the Russian Empire: 1773 – 1825. Genesis, Structure, Forms of Addressing the Authorities.

Evgenia Georgievna Pevzner, 3rd- year Ph.D. student at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Topic of the dissertation: Jewish Cultural and Enlightenment Organizations in Petersburg – Petrograd – Leningrad in 1907 – 1929.

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