Auteur: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

A major history of the shtetl’s golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misun …

This book is the first to explore the Jewish contribution to, and integration with, Ukrainian culture. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern focuses on five writers and poets of Jewish descent whose literary acti …

In this first examination of Lenin’s genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin’s m …

Counter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the history of religion and …

Following the abolishment of state-sanctioned antisemitism under Gorbachev’s Perestroika liberalization policy, Jewish life in the (F)SU ([former] Soviet Union) was dominated by two interrelated tren …

Following the abolishment of state-sanctioned antisemitism under Gorbachev’s Perestroika liberalization policy, Jewish life in the (F)SU ([former] Soviet Union) was dominated by two interrelated tren …

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700, 000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly inter …

Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700, 000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly inter …