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"At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After the Holocaust, the USSR remained one of the world s three key centers of Jewish population, along with the United States and Israel. While a great deal is known about the history and experiences of the Jewish people in the US and in Israel in the twentieth century, much less is known about the experiences of Soviet Jews."--]cFrom publisher's description.
About the author
Oleg Budnitskii (Author) Oleg Budnitskii is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow. He is the author of seven books, including
Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites (1917-1920).
David Engel (Author) David Engel is Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of seven books and more than 100 scholarly articles on various aspects of Jewish history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Gennady Estraikh (Author) Gennady Estraikh is Professor of Yiddish Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
Anna Shternshis (Author) Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of
Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 and
When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin.
