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This book traces the impact on Jewish culture in Western Europe of the migration of Russian Jews following the 1917 Revolution as they enabled the creation of a single sphere of Jewish culture common to all parts of the European diaspora.
About the author
Jörg Schulte, Ph.D. (2003), is a Honarary research associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL. He has been a fellow at The Warburg Institute in London and has been teaching at the universities of Hamburg and Warsaw. His publications include
Eine Poetik der Offenbarung: Isaak Babel' - Bruno Schulz - Danilo Kis (Harrassowitz, 2004) and
Jan Kochanowski und die europäische Renaissance (Harrassowitz, 2012).
Olga Tabachnikova, Ph.D. (2007), University of Bath, has been working at the universities of Bath and Bristol. She has published widely in the field of European philosophical and literary studies, with the main focus on Russian cultural history. Her recent publications include
Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers (editor, Anthem, 2010) and
Unpublished Correspondence between Lev Shestov and Boris de Schloezer (YMCA, 2011).
Peter J. Wagstaff, Ph.D. (1981), University of Exeter, teaches French and European Studies at the University of Bath. He has published extensively on French and other European narratives of migration and exile, including
Cultures of Exile (Berghahn, 2004) and
Border Crossings (Lang, 2004).
