Cultural archeology of Jews and Slavs

PROPOSAL # 5 

Cultural Archaeology of Jews And Slavs: 

Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic 

Interaction and Cross-Fertilization 

Prof. Moshe Taube - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Dr. Alexander Kulik - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Cultural Archaeology of Jews And Slavs: 

Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic 

Interaction and Cross-Fertilization 

Research group proposal submitted by 

Prof. Moshe Taube 

Department of Linguistics 

Department of Central and Eastern European Cultures 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

mstaube@mscc.huji.ac.il ) 

Dr. Alexander Kulik 

Department of Central and Eastern European Cultures 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

akulik@mscc.huji.ac.il )

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CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWS AND SLAVS: 

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JUDEO-SLAVIC 

INTERACTION AND CROSS-FERTILIZATION 

Research group proposal 

for a six-month research group at the Institute for Advanced Studies, 

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 

March-August, 2011 

ABSTRACT 

Bringing together scholars of comparative history, philology, and religion, the proposed 

research group will use methods of cultural archaeology to explore Medieval and Early Modern 

Judeo-Slavic transparency. The participants understand cultural transparency as the 

permeability of the two cultures, which facilitates the exchange of ideas and genres between 

them. What is cultural archeology? It implies methods of multi-disciplinary research based on 

the assumption that East Europe represented a melting pot characterized by an intensive 

cross-fertilization of diverse ethnic, linguistic, scientific, and confessional legacies. Cultural 

archaeology analyzes various historical, religious, and literary texts by looking at them as at a 

palimpsest which reveals earlier texts and discourses shaped by their contemporary 

socio-cultural context. The group calls it archaeology since it helps uncover earlier layers of 

culture and reconstruct the unknown context by digging into the existing historical texts. The 

group defines it as cultural because they use an array of methods characteristic to various fields 

of humanities, from history and sociology to philology and linguistics. 

The proposed theme has wide methodological ramifications reaching beyond the 

Judeo-Slavic cultural realm. Whereas Jews and Slavs often appeared in scholarly discourse as 

separate and essentially incongruent entities, this group proposes to build a model of 

cross-cultural interaction in order to better understand other situations where different 

faith-based ethnic cultures cohabit. The group will seek to reconstruct ways, methods, and forms 

of Judeo-Slavic cross-fertilization using historical and philological techniques previously 

brought together in Biblical studies (f. e., by Richard Friedman) but almost never used as part of 

cultural studies. These techniques engulf but are not limited to the reconstruction of an accurate 

context, a key method in historical studies; a comparative analysis of theological discourses, 

characterizing the religious studies; and the discussion of socio-linguistic aspects of verbal 

usage, crucial for a philologist. The group will define a corpus of East European Slavic and 

Jewish texts through which one can see earlier layers of Slavic-Judaic interaction. 

Focusing on previously ignored or under-explored Medieval and Early Modern texts and 

documents, the group will seek to investigate the Jewish and Slavic historical and cultural 

legacies—texts, traditions, and sensibilities—some considered irretrievably lost, some 

misinterpreted or not integrated into discussion, and some regretfully neglected. In the course of 

its work, the group will organize a two-day international conference on cultural archeology. It 

will share the results of its research in a collection of thematically and methodologically closely 

linked essays to be published in the journal Jewish History, with the organizers of the research 

group as guest editors. This publication will be followed by a volume summarizing the results of 

the research work to be included in the series Studia Judaeoslavica.

CULTURAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWS AND SLAVS: 

MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN JUDEO-SLAVIC 

INTERACTION AND CROSS-FERTILIZATION 

Research group proposal 

for a six-month research group at the Institute for Advanced Studies, 

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

March-August, 2011 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

While previous studies dedicated to Judeo-Slavic dialogue considered Jews and Slavs as 

two separate entities divided by religious, social, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic barriers, this 

research group will operate on an opposite assumption—that the barriers between Jews and 

Slavs were porous, that religious differences quite often enhanced the exchange, and that some 

subfields such as elite and popular cultures were more susceptible to cross-fertilization than for 

example political discourse, therefore similarities between them overran the differences. 

Furthermore, this group seeks to complicate the assumption that Judeo-Slavic interaction was 

based predominantly on Slavic borrowings from Jewish literary legacy. The studies by the 

group participants will demonstrate that interaction depended not only and not necessarily on 

direct borrowings, but also on transparency of a variety of East European cultures, which shared 

the common pool of ideas, images, and genres. This emphasis on a common inventory of texts, 

feelings, and ideas (used by cultural historians such as Natalie Zemon Davis) will help the group 

to elaborate an innovative methodology of studying cultural interactions that makes even both 

participants, Slavs and Jews, in the dialogue and exchange. At the same time the hypothesis of a 

shared pool of meanings and feelings (used by Jean-Christophe Agnew) will help avoid the 

methodological trap which usually privileges one of the cultures at the expense of the other. 

Digging through the layers of Medieval and Early Modern texts the group will also seek to 

reconstruct common pool of ideas, rites, and traditions, fertilizing both Jewish and Slavic 

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cultures in Eastern Europe. 

Starting with Abraham Harkavy, the founder of Judeo-Slavic studies and the custodian 

of the Imperial Oriental collection in St. Petersburg, Judeo-Slavic discourse has been the focus 

of scholars interested in mutual influences between these peoples. At its early stages the field 

was dominated by historians on the one hand and linguists on the other. While linguists, e.g. 

Max Weinreich, pointed out the amazing level of Slavic influence on the linguistic behavior of 

their Jewish neighbors, evidenced by borrowings and calquing—for example, in field of 

Yiddish-Slavic sociolinguistics—historians such as Simon Dubnow repeatedly emphasized the 

insurmountable differences between Jews and Slavs and pointed to victimization as the key 

element of Jewish-Slavic interaction. Philologists like Moshe Altbauer, Horace Lunt, Nikita 

Mescherskij and their successors in Israel and Russia achieved revolutionary breakthroughs in 

our understanding of the cultural contacts between Jews and Eastern Slavs in the Middle Ages. 

Drawing from the Cairo Genizah findings, medievalist historians from Solomon Schechter to 

Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, made a remarkable effort to go beyond the previously 

unchallenged perceived patterns of Judeo-Slavic exchange and suggested new ways to assess, 

for example, the impact of the Khazars on Kievan Rus. In specific subfields, particularly in 

Early Modern Jewish-Polish relations, scholars such as Gershon Hundert, Moshe Rosman, and 

Adam Teller advanced a brand new model of a productive socio-cultural exchange. The interest 

in the field began to grow significantly in late 1980s and 1990s with a revival of Judeo-Slavic 

studies in Eastern Europe. Promising works providing textual proof to intensive contacts 

between Jews and Slavs in Medieval and Early Modern times appeared in the multi-volume 

series Jews and Slavs established at the Hebrew University in 1991. The new book series Studia 

Judaeoslavica started by Brill Publishers this year (2008) aims to provide a forum for the 

growing interest and research in the field across disciplines. 

These and other works cemented the field of Judeo-Slavic studies and shaped key 

questions for the agenda of the proposed research group. First, how to define the “texts” 

reflecting Judeo-Slavic transparency and how to circumscribe a corpus of such texts? Second, 

what are the methodological grounds uniting the efforts of scholars in various field of 

humanities engaged with the study of Judeo-Slavic interaction? Third, what problems were 

created or left by this previous work? Fourth, what are the remaining lacunae? 

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The participants of this research group share some basic approaches to these questions. 

They have seen that the absence of clearly defined methodological grounds and of a defined 

corpus of texts marked by an intensive Judeo-Slavic cross-fertilization triggered the emergence 

of entirely mythological and yet quite popular theories—ranging from Mikhail Artamonov and 

Lev Gumilev to Mark Zborowski, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Yurii Slezkine Their popular 

theories depicted Judeo-Slavic interaction as a non-stop fight of the rising Slavs against the 

ever-oppressing Jews in guise of Khazars or their further historical reincarnations. They either 

portrayed Jews as a “people apart” sharing next to nothing with the surrounding gentiles or 

characterized Slavs as having almost no impact on East European Jews, except negative. And 

most recently they presented Jews as service nomads invading the heart of a Slavic sedentary 

civilization. Quite misleading, these theories point to an urgent need to offer a well-grounded 

scholarly model of Jewish-Slavic interaction that does not privilege one culture at the expense 

of the other, takes into consideration historical and literary/philological aspects of the problem, 

provides an accurate contextualization of the texts and events under consideration, and lays a 

foundation for new developments in the domain of study of Slavic-Judaic interaction based on 

cultural transparency and cross-fertilization. 

The proposed research group will use ideas stemming from recent theories in sociology, 

philology, Biblical studies, and cultural history. The participants will explore the applicability of 

Jean-Christophe Agnew’s theory of shared cultural “meanings and feelings” to Medieval and 

Early Modern Jewish-Slavic interaction juxtaposing it with the theory of Rogers Brubaker that 

ethnicities are “epistemological” rather than “ontological” entities, namely that they are 

“perspectives on the world” rather than “things in the world.” These theories will frame the 

understanding of commonalities of cultural reactions of Jews and Slavs to certain events or texts 

and will show to what extent the historical differences between Jews and Slavs generated from 

corresponding social, religious, and political institutions rather than from grass-roots realities 

such as an intensive interaction between Jewish and Slavonic theologians in Kievan Rus, a 

millennia-long Jewish economic and trade dealings with the Russian Orthodox peasantry, a 

complex and highly productive relationship between Polish nobility and Jewish elite throughout 

the medieval period, Polish Catholic Church regular dealings with Jewish converts and 

sectarians, and multiple contacts between Jewish Kabbalists, Polish pharmacists, and eastern 

Slavic popular healers in early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 

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This group brings together scholars of comparative religion, historians, philologists and 

linguists to help bring down disciplinary barriers and to show how the Slavic and the Jewish 

cultures can be revealed, each of them respectively, as unique repositories of the lost texts, 

sensibilities, and traditions of the other’s culture. It seeks to examine whether and to what extent 

Slavic cultures preserve unique data on Medieval and Early Modern East European Jews while 

Medieval and Early Modern East European Jews preserve key elements of the Slavic cultural 

traditions previously considered irretrievably vanished. Each of the scholars will work in his/her 

corresponding subfield circumscribing cultural exchange within Khazarian-Slavic, 

Judeo-Greek-Church Slavonic, Old Russian-Jewish, early modern Polish-Jewish, and other 

cultural realms. The group will explore the period of Jewish-Slavic contacts ranging from the 

late 9 th -early 10 th centuries to late 17 th –early 18 th centuries. 

The group will focus on an array of texts broadly defined: Eastern European Jewish 

and Karaite epigraphics, Slavic Bible versions, ancient Jewish pseudepigrapha and medieval 

midrash preserved exclusively in Slavic, Hebrew medieval scientific texts in East Slavic 

translation, Slavic historiography and Church Slavonic literature, witnessing medieval and early 

modern Jewish history and Judeo-Slavic contacts in the Slavic lands influenced by Jewish texts 

or containing anti-Judaic polemics, literature of the Muscovite Judaizers, Jewish halachic works 

referring to Slavic realia, Jewish and Slavic documentary sources, etc. The group will scrutinize 

a variety of texts, including, but not limited to the Slavonic Book of Enoch, Apocalypse of 

Abraham, Life of Adam and Eve and Ladder of Jacob; Codex Vilensis; Sermon of the Blessed 

Zarubavel; Story of Three Captures of Jerusalem; Vita of Moses; The Sermon on Law and Grace 

by Metropolitan Ilarion; Patericon of the Kievan Caves Monastery; Old Russian civil and 

Church legislation such as Ustiuzhskaia Kormchaia Book; Explanatory Palaea; Correspondence 

of Gennadij, archbishop of Novgorod; Epistle of Savva Against Jews and Heretics; The 

Enlightener by Iosif Volotski; Diplomatic Correspondence of Ivan III; Lithuanian gramoty of 

15-17 th cents.; the pseudo-Aristotelian Secret of Secrets with interpolations in Slavic from 

Maimonides’ On Poisons and Antidotes, from his On Intercourse and from his Book of Asthma 

(chpt. 13), as well from Rhazes’ Almansuri; Rabbinic Responsa of 12-17 th centuries such as Or 

Zarua and Practical Kabbalah and magical/medical books and manuscripts such as Mifa’alot 

elohim, Toldot adam, Medyk domowy, Vademecum medicum and Sefer ha-heshek. 

Each of the participants will study his or her own set of texts while sharing with other 

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participants methodological concerns and innovative approaches. Some of the common 

questions to be considered follow: 

How to define the corpus of Medieval and Early Modern texts characterized by an 

intensive Jewish-Slavic interaction? Is it possible to canonize this corpus as Judeo-Slavic 

or entitle it Judeo-Slavic subculture? Are the parameters defining this corpus applicable 

to other groups of texts outside the East European world—for example, to Judeo-Greek 

or Judeo-Arabic literatures? 

Is there an internal dynamic within the loosely defined field tentatively entitled the 

Judeo-Slavic subculture—or is it too sporadic to allow any discussion of periodical 

intensity and cadence? What is the relationship between the dynamics of 

cross-fertilization and a concrete historical context or cultural environment? In general, 

can one measure the dynamics and intensity within such subfields as Judeo-Slavonic, 

Judeo-Ukrainian, Judeo-Polish, and Judeo-Russian? 

What is the place, weight, and function of archival research—and of paleographical 

studies for the Judeo-Slavic field that the research group considers a must for this field? 

What do we gain looking for new sources or using philological techniques to uncover 

historical meanings? How one can bring together methods of historical, comparative 

religious, socio-cultural, and philological analysis—and make them work toward one 

end? 

What is the place of religion—and its social institutions—in preventing or facilitating 

cultural cross-fertilization and transparency? How are Catholic Slavs different in their 

interaction from East and South Slavic Orthodox? 

How did specific features of Judaic fusion cultures such as those of the Khazars and 

Karaites facilitate cultural transparency within a larger context and shaped unique forms 

of the civilization dialogue? 

What are the immediate ramifications of the applicability of the theory of cultural 

transparency and cross-fertilization to Jews and Slavs? How may this theory change our 

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perspective on cultures and peoples routinely defined as antagonistic, for example Early 

Modern Poles (Catholics) and Ukrainians (Russian Orthodox), Jews and Ukrainians 

within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire, Turks and 

Armenians on the eve of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and others. 

The proposed research group provides a unique opportunity to scholars in different 

fields, namely in Slavic, Jewish, and Oriental studies, comparative linguistics, Biblical 

philology, comparative religion, Medieval and Early Modern East European history and culture 

to define and elaborate a new scholarly methodology. It is advisable to compare this 

methodology to that of an archeologist, who seeks to reconstruct a vanished cultural layer. 

However, unlike the traditional archeologist, the proposed research group will dig into texts, not 

into soil, so as to yield results related to history broadly conceived, not limited only to material 

culture. The group will discuss the possible application of the models of cultural transparency 

and cross-fertilization to other cultural discourses such as ancient Judeo-Greek, Medieval 

Judeo-Arabic, Early Modern Christian-Jewish. Members of the group share an understanding 

that historians deal with texts, either verbal or visual,—hence they feel the necessity to 

incorporate rigorous philological and comparative methods into the study of history broadly 

defined. The group will join together to create a fusion of philological and historical approaches, 

so far—with minor yet significant exceptions—considered incompatible in Medieval and Early 

Modern East European, Slavic and Jewish studies. This methodological fusion, part of cultural 

archaeology, will help make a broader historical sense of specific socio- and ethno-linguistic 

analyses. It will enable the philologists, members of the group, to contextualize their specific 

findings against a clearly defined historical backdrop and reconstruct their intellectual 

ramifications. Simultaneously it will encourage the participating historians to create a more 

nuanced vision of their subject matter linking it to rigorous textual analysis of the historical 

documents they are dealing with. 

Thus centering its attention on previously unexplored and under-explored Medieval and 

Early Modern texts and documents, the group will seek to reconstruct Judaic and Slavic 

historical and cultural legacies—texts, traditions, and sensibilities—some of which were 

hitherto considered irretrievably lost, such as Judeo-Church Slavonic theological discourse, 

some misinterpreted or not integrated into discussion, and some regretfully neglected. The much 

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debated but still unresolved issues of identifying the primary intended recipients of the 

translated body of knowledge and of explaining the motives of both sides, the Jewish and the 

Christian-Slavic, for drawing precisely these and not other texts and to translate them in order to 

make them available for the other side will have a better chance of being resolved in this 

multidisciplinary environment of scholars working in adjacent fields. 

In course of its work, the group plans to organize a two-day international conference on 

cultural archeology. It will share the results of its research in a collection of thematically and 

methodologically closely linked essays to be published in the journal Jewish History, with the 

organizers of the research group as guest editors followed. This publication will be followed by 

a volume summarizing the results of the research work to appear in the Brill Publishers series 

Studia Judaeoslavica. 

Fellows: 

Anatolii A. Alekseev, St. Petersburg State University 

Judith Kalik, Independent Researcher, Jerusalem 

Alexander Kulik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, Milwaukee 

Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, 

History and Antiquities 

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University, Chicago 

Dan Shapira, Bar-Ilan University 

Moshe Taube, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Possible Visitors: 

Edward L. Keenan, Emeritus Professor of History, Harvard University 

Vladimir Petrukhin, Institute of Slavic Studies, Moscow 

Sergius Temchinas, Vilnius University 

William F. Ryan, The Warburg Institute, University of London 

Robert Romanchuk, Florida State University 

Hanna Węgżynek, Warsaw University 

Victor Zhivov, Univerity of California, Berkeley 

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Edward Fram, Ben Guriom University, Beer Sheba 

James Kugel, Bar Ilan University and Harvard University 

Moshe Rosman, Bar-Ilan University 

Joel Raba, Tel Aviv University 

Elchanan Reiner, Tel Aviv University 

Shaul Stampfer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Adam Teller, Haifa University 

Individual projects: 

Seeking to establish new integrative and multifaceted analysis, each member will present to the 

group his/her (i) corpus of texts, (ii) interpretation method, (iii) direction and preliminary 

research results, and (iv) methodological questions addressed to other group members 

representing other disciplines, schools, methodologies, and scholarly horizons. 

Anatolii Alekseev is planning to carry out an intensive study of Judaic and Hebrew influence on 

theological activities of the Kievan Rus. Whereas Christian ideas per se did not produce any 

feasible reaction in the cultural imagination of Kievan Rus’, Eastern Christian 

intercommunication with Hebrew sources generated peculiar intellectual phenomena which had 

a significant, yet largely unidentified impact on Old Russian sources. 

Judith Kalik will investigate the place of the Jews among Catholics, Russian Orthodox, Uniates, 

and Protestants in the inter-religious exchange, polemic and interaction in the multicultural 

context of the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Her investigation will focus 

primarily on polemicist and homiletic literature and ecclesiastic legislation demonstrating how 

and in what capacity Jews served as a religious and cultural interlocutors indispensable for the 

self-determination of each of these East European confessions. Kalik will intensively cooperate 

with Petrovsky-Shtern, also focused on Early Modern Poland, and Pereswetoff-Morath, engaged 

with questions similar to hers in Kievan Rus context. 

Alexander Kulik will deal with Slavic texts reflecting the Nachleben of the lost ancient Jewish 

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pseudepigrapha in medieval Slavic cultures and their ancient and medieval Jewish and medieval 

Slavic sources and parallels. He will seek to reconstruct the lost links of interaction between 

medieval Jews and Slavs, attempting to recreate the lost intermediary versions of Hebrew and 

Aramaic apocalyptical texts by scrutinizing their later Slavic versions. He will also analyze 

Jewish and Slavic documents demonstrating a viable intellectual Jewish presence in Early East 

Europe, and thus shaping a multiple-layered Judeo-Slavic cultural interaction in Kievan Rus’ 

and medieval Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 

Andrei Orlov will analyze a variety of Judaic mystical and apocalyptical texts, traditions, and 

practices preserved exclusively in medieval Slavonic apocrypha. He will demonstrate how 

Slavonic texts became the only available repository of certain apocalyptic Judaic traditions 

associated with Enoch and Metatron. He will also study how Slavic religious traditions 

absorbed, reworked, and transformed Judaic mysticism into the core elements of East European 

Russian Orthodox sensibilities. He will also focus on the transformational mysticism of Satan in 

Slavonic books of Apocrypha and Jewish angelology as reflected in Slavonic apocalypses. 

Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath will suggest a newly revised corpus of Church-Slavonic texts 

heavily marked by Jewish and Hebrew influence and will explore philosemitism and 

anti-Judaism in historical, philosophical, and theological texts generated among Russian 

orthodox authors in Medieval Rus. The analysis of thee texts will show the indispensability of 

the image of a Jewish other for the rise of the genre of Eastern/Greek/Russian Orthodox 

philosophical dialogue, Church sermon and interfaith disputation. 

Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern will study Early Modern Judaic mystical and magic texts preserved 

mostly in manuscripts integrating them with the East Slavic Paracelsian tradition combining 

alchemy, magic, and mysticism and reflecting common intellectual concerns of Jews and Slavs 

who sought a new fusion of mystical and medical knowledge and drew heavily from the Early 

Modern Polish medical and pharmaceutical tradition. 

Dan Shapira will analyze the channels of transmission of Jewish texts to Slavic cultures through 

Iranian, Turkic, and Syriac intermediacy, the interaction between Armenian and Aramaic in 

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Bulgaria and Greece of the 10-14 th century and possible Judeo-Armenian-Turkic background of 

several Slavonic texts. He will also focus on the cultural intermediacy of Khazars and Karaites 

within the context of Iranian-Turkish-Slavic exchange. 

Moshe Taube will pursue his investigation into the scientific and scholarly texts in Hebrew garb, 

mostly of Moslem origin, in the domains of Logic, Philosophy, Astronomy and Medicine, which 

made their way into the East Slavic lands in the fifteen century by way of translation, and trace 

their route of diffusion from the Principality of Kiev through the Boyar Republic of Novgorod 

to Muscovy. 

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Research Group 

“Cultural Archeology of Jews and Slavs: 

Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic Interaction and Cross-Fertilization” 

Fellows: Additional Information 

Anatolii Alekseev, St. Petersburg State University 

Judith Kalik, Independent Researcher 

Alexander Kulik, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

Andrei Orlov, Marquette University, USA 

Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History 

and Antiquities 

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University, Chicago 

Dan Shapira, Bar-Ilan University 

Moshe Taube, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Cultural Archeology of Jews and Slavs Page 2 

Anatolij A. Alekseev, Professor at the St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and at the 

St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy, is a leading Russian authority in Eastern Orthodoxy, Slavic 

Biblical tradition, Biblical Text Studies and Bible translations into Slavic languages. He also 

holds a position of a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Old Russian Literature of the 

Russian Academy of Science. He is the founder of the Slavic Biblical Commission of the 

International Committee of Slavicists. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of 

Amsterdam, Trier, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He contributed extensively to the 

study of Slavic Biblical texts (over 200 published scholarly works), both as an author and as 

an editor, focusing on the Old and the New Testament. Among others, he authored two 

monographs: Текстология славянской Библии. СПб., 1999 (Textology of the Slavic Bible); 

Песнь песней в древней славяно-русской письменности. СПб., 2002 (The Song of Songs 

in the Slavic-Russian Written Tradition). 

Relevant publications since 2003: 

Books edited 

Что думают ученые о «Велесовой книге». Сборник статей. Составитель А. А. 

Алексеев. СПб.: Наука, 2004. 237 с. (заметка «От составителя», с. 3—5). 

Articles and Chapters 

Ветхий Иерусалим древнерусской хронографии, ТОДРЛ. Т. 53. 2003. pp. 446—455. 

Еще раз о книге Есфирь, Русский язык в научном освещении. 2003. Т. 1 (5). pp. 185— 

214. 

Библия в церковнославянской традиции, Церковный вестник. 2003. № 5. pp. 55—57; № 

6—7. pp. 59—63. 

Издания греческих и славянских библейских текстов: сравнительный обзор 

эдиционных проблем, in: Критическото издание на най-стария славянски текст на 

библейските книги и неговите алтернативи. XIII международен конгрес на 

славистите. Любляна, 15—21 август 2003 г. София, 2003. pp. 20—45. 

Перспективы текстологии: От реконструкции архетипа к истории текста, ТОДРЛ. Т. 54. 

2003. pp. 50—57. 

Грамматическая статья патриарха Фотия в славянском переводе, ТОДРЛ. Т. 55. 2004. 

pp. 374—378. 

Masoretic Text in Russia, in: Text, Theology and Translation. Essays in Honour of Jan de 

Waard. Editors S. Crisp and M. Jinbachian. United Bible Societies, 2004. pp. 13—29. (То же 

по-русски: Jews and Slavs, vol. 15. Jerusalem; Sophia, 2005). 

Византийско-славянский профитологий (формирование состава), ТОДРЛ. Т. 56. 2004. 

pp. 46—77. То же с некоторыми изменениями и без таблиц: The Old Testament Lections 

in Orthodox Worship, in: Das Alte Testament als christliche Bibel in orthodoxer and 

westlicher Sicht. Zweite europäische orthodox-westliche Exegetenkonferenz im Rilakloster 

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vom 8.—15. September 2001. Hrsg. von I. Z. Dimitrov, J. D. G. Dunn, U. Luz und K.—W. 

Niebuhr. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. pp. 91—117 [= Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen 

zum Neuen Testament, Bd. 174]. 

Палея в системе хронографического жанра, ТОДРЛ. 2005. Т. 56. pp. 25—32. 

The Last but Probably not the Least: The Slavonic Version as a Witness of the Greek NT 

Text, in: Methodius und Kyrillos in ihrer europäischen Dimension. Hrsg. von Evangelos 

Konstantinou. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2005. pp. 247—260. 

Encyclopedic entries 

Библеистика, in: Православная Энциклопедия. Т. 5. 2003. pp. 25—45 [совместно с А. К. 

Лявданским и К. В. Неклюдовым] 

Библеистика в России, in: Прав. Энц. Т. 5. 2003. pp. 45—48 [совместно с Б. А. 

Тихомировым] 

Библия. Рукописи Нового Завета, in: Прав. Энц. Т. 5. 2003. pp. 105—108. 

Библия. Издания греческого Нового Завета, in: Прав. Энц. Т. 5. 2003. pp. 108—110. 

Библия. Переводы на древнегреческий язык, in: Прав. Энц. Т. 5. 2003. pp. 123—125. 

Библия. Переводы на латинский язык, in: Прав. Энц. Т. 5. 2003. pp. 125—126. 

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Judith Kalik is currently a Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture Fellow and an Adjunct 

Lecturer at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has been awarded multiple grants and 

fellowships and has been selected a Nathan Rothenstreich, J.L. Talmon, Rothschild (Yad 

Hanadiv), Baron Ginzburg, Vidal Sassoun, and Leonid Nevzlin Fellow. She is acknowledged 

for her multiple publications and conference presentations covering the relations between 

Judaism and Catholicism in Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Her monograph 

The Polish Nobility and the Jews in the Dietine Legislation of the Polish-Lithuanian 

Commonwealth, was published in 1997 in Jerusalem (in Hebrew). At present she is working 

on a new book project summarizing cultural and religious interactions between Jews and 

Christians in the 16-18th East Europe. 


Books 

The Scepter of Judah. Jewish Autonomy in Eighteenth Century Crown Poland (Leiden: Brill, 

2010, forthcoming). 


“Jews in Catholic Ecclesiastic Legislation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” Jewish 

History Quarterly, no. 209 (2004), 26-39. 

“The Lost Treasure: Lists of the Jewish Poll Tax from the 18th Century in the Archives of 

Polish Military Treasury,” Zion no. 69 (2004): 329-356. 

“Christian Kabbala and Polish Jews: Attitudes of the Church to Jewish Conversion and the 

Idea of ‘Jacob’s Return’ in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th Century,” 

Jewish History Quarterly, no. 212 (2005): 492-501. 

“Jewish Leaseholders (Arendarze) in 18th Century Crown Poland,” Jahrbücher für 

Geschichte Osteuropas, no. 54 (2006): 229-240. 

“Beilis Trial in Russian Public Discourse in the Context of the Other National Minorities - the 

Case of the Votiaks (Udmurts),” Jewish Studies: an Internet Journal, no. 5 (2006): 123-131 

(Hebrew). 

“Suburban Story: Structure of Jewish Communities in Largest Royal Cities of 18 th Century 

Crown Poland,” Kwartalnik Historyczny, no. 113 (2006): 49-75. 

“Deconstructing Communities: The Administrative Structure of the Rural Jewish Population 

in the Polish Crown Lands in the 18th Century,” Gal-ed, no. 21 (2006): 53-76. 

”Between the Census and the Poll-Tax: the Jewish Population of Crown Poland during the 

18 th Century,” Journal of European Economic History, no. 36 (2006): 101-123. 

“The Inn as a Focal Point for Jewish Relations with the Catholic Church in the Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth,” Jews and Slavs, no. 21 (2007), pp.381-390. 

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“Attitudes towards the Jews and Catholic identity in eighteenth-century Poland,” in: 

Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe, (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History) 

eds, M.Crăciun, O.Ghitta, and G.Mordock (Ashgate, 2008), 181-193. 

“Debts, Communal,” “Leaseholding,” “Servants,” “Trakai,” “Troki, Yitshak ben Avraham,” 

map to “Councils” by A. Teller, YIVO Encyclopaedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. G. D. 

Hundert (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 1: 353, 399-400, 1001-1003; 2: 1692- 

1693, 1897-1898, 1906. 

Forthcoming: 

“Future Russian Jews in the Eastern Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, in A 

History of the Jews in Russia. Part 1: The Middle Ages, ed. I. Bartal and A. Kulik, eds. 

(Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2009) (Hebrew and Russian). 

“The Orthodox Church and the Jews in the Eastern Territories of Polish-Lithuanian 

Commonwealth”, in A History of the Jews in Russia. Part 1: The Middle Ages, ed. I. Bartal 

and A. Kulik, eds. (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2009) (Hebrew and Russian). 

“The Jewish Presence in Russia in the 16 th -18 th Centuries”, in A History of the Jews in Russia. 

Part 1: The Middle Ages, ed. I. Bartal and A. Kulik, eds. (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2009) 

(Hebrew and Russian). 

”Erotic Attraction and Sexual Intercourse between Jews and Christians in the Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth – Between Fusion and Alienation,” in Religious Symbols as 

Means of Communication. Stuctures of power and social interaction in multiconfessional 

Poland-Lithuania, ed. By Y. Kleinmann (Leipzig, 2009). 

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Alexander Kulik currently serves as the Head of the Russian and Slavic Studies Department 

at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He authored two monographs of Jewish apocrypha 

preserved in Church Slavonic versions, which were published by the Society of Biblical 

Literature (Atlanta), Brill Publishers (Leiden & Boston), and Walter de Gruyter (Berlin & 

New York). He also produced a series of articles on Medieval Jewish history and culture in 

Eastern Europe published in leading U.S. peer-review journals, such as Viator and Harvard 

Ukrainian Studies. Presently he serves as the editor of History of Jews in Russia: From 

Antiquity to Early Modern Period to be published by Zalman Shazar Center (Jerusalem). He 

has founded and heads the Brill book series Studia Judaeoslavica. His project on Slavonic 

pseudepigrapha, which aims at the scholarly edition and publication of the entire corpus of 

ancient Jewish texts preserved only in Slavonic versions, has won a 500,000 NIS grant of the 

Israeli Academy of Sciences. 


Books 

Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Towards the Lost Original of the Apocalypse of 

Abraham. First edition (paperback): Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004. 

Second edition (hardback): Leiden—Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. 

Reviews: Andrei Orlov, Review of Biblical Literature 5 (2005); Jaime Vazquez Allegue, Review of Biblical 

Literature 5 (2005); Basil Lourié, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 15.3 (2006); Darrell Hannah, 

Journal for the Study of the New Testament 28.5 (2006); Nicolae Roddy, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 68.2 

(2006); Johannes G.T van der Tak, Journal for the Study of Judaism 38.1 (2007). 

Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch). Berlin—New York: Verlag Walter de 

Gruyter (2009, forthcoming). 

Books Edited 

Petrukhin, V., Moskovich W. , Fedorchuk, A. , Kulik, A. , Shapira D. Khazars (Russian). 

Jerusalem—Moscow: Gesharim—Mosty Kultury, 2005. 

History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period (Russian), 

Jerusalem—Moscow: Gesharim —Mosty Kultury (forthcoming). 


“Textual Criticism and Retroversion.” Judeo-Bulgarica, Judeo-Russica et Palaeoslavica 

(= Jews and Slavs 15). Jerusalem—Sofia, 2005, pp. 313—323. 

“Polysemantics vs. Homography.” Quadrivium: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Wolf 

Moskovich. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Center for Slavic Languages and Literatures, 

2006, pp. 25—32. 

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“Jews of Medieval Russia: to the Research Methodology” (Hebrew). Peamim 111-112 

(2007), pp. 185—208. 

“Judeo-Greek Legacy in Medieval Rus’.” Viator 39.1 (2008), pp. 51—64. 

“The Earliest Evidence on the Jewish Presence in Western Rus'.” Harvard Ukrainian 

Studies 27.1-4 (2008), pp. 13—34. 

“Jews of Old Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction” (Russian). Ruthenica 7 (2008), 

pp. 52—70. 

“Slavic Apocrypha and Slavic Linguistics.” Christfried Böttrich, Lorenzo DiTommaso 

(eds.). Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition: Continuity and Diversity 

(Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series). London—New York: 

T&T Clark International/Continuum (forthcoming). 

“Apocalypse of Abraham” (Hebrew). David Rosenthal (ed.). Literature of the Second 

Temple Period. Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in 

the East (forthcoming). 

“Apocalypse of Abraham.” Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Paul Mendes-Flohr, 

Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Eric J. Ziolkowski (eds.). Encyclopedia of 

the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin—New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter (forthcoming). 

“Jews of Old Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction” (Hebrew). Alexander Kulik 

(ed.). History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period (Hebrew). 

Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History (forthcoming). 

“Jews of Old Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction” (Russian). Alexander Kulik 

(ed.). History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period. Jerusalem— 

Moscow: Gesharim —Mosty Kultury (forthcoming). 

“The Jews of Slavia Graeca: the Northern Frontier of Byzantine Jewry?” Reuven Bonfil, 

Oded Irshai, Guy Stroumsa, and Rina Talgam (eds.). Jews of Byzantium: Dialectics of 

Minority and Majority Cultures (forthcoming). 

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Andrei Orlov, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Ph.D. (2003) in 

Theology, Marquette University, is an Assistant Professor at Marquette University 

(Milwaukee, USA), where he teaches the Bible, Judeo-Christian nexus, and Christianity. He 

has published extensively on the Old Testament pseudepigrapha including The Enoch- 

Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005) and From Apocalypticism to 

Merkabah Mysticism (SJSJ, 114; Leiden: Brill, 2007). He is the leading expert in the Slavonic 

apocalyptic texts and the Jewish apocalyptic traditions preserved in Church Slavonic. 


Books 

From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha 

(Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 114; Leiden: Brill, 2007), xii+481. 

ISBN 90-04-15439-6. 

Reviews in Journal of Jewish Studies 59 (2008) 140-143 [Michael Stone]; Journal for the Study of Judaism 39 

(2008) 129-130 [Kevin Sullivan]; Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008) [Christopher Rowland]. 

The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 107; Tübingen: 

Mohr/Siebeck, 2005), xii+383. ISBN 3-16-148544-0. 

Reviews: Internationale Zeitschriftenschau 51 (2004/05) 1402; New Testament Abstracts 50 (2006) 1.219; 

Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 86 (2006) 406-407 [Ch. Grappe]; Zion 71 (2006) 404; Salesianum 

68 (2006) 596-597 [Rafael Vicent]; The Studia Philonica Annual 18 (2006) [Michael Stone]; The Expository 

Times 117 (2006) 344 [Kevin Sullivan]; Vigiliae Christianae 60 (2006) 247-248 [Johannes van Oort]; 

Neotestamentica 40 (2006) 213-215 [Jonathan A. Draper]; Scrinium 2 (2006) 370-406 [Basil Lourié]; 

Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 61 (2007) 69-70 [Pieter van der Horst]; Journal for the Study of the Old 

Testament 30 (2006) 183-184 [Lester Grabbe]; Journal of Biblical Literature 125.3 (2006) 587-592 [James E. 

Harding]; Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6 (2006) [Eva Mroczek]; Recherches de Science Religieuse 95.4 (2007) 

597-598 [Katell Berthelot]. 

Articles in Edited Volumes 

“И Глас Бысть: Традиции Имени Божиего в ‘Апокалипсисе Авраама’” 

Волшебная Гора (XV; ed. A. Medvedev; Moscow, 2008) 104-124. 

“The Heirs of the Enochic Lore: ‘Men of Faith’ in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer Hekhalot 48D:10,” 

The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism (= Scrinium III; eds. 

B. Lourié and A. Orlov; St. Petersburg: Byzantinorossica, 2007) 451-463. 

"Resurrection of Adam's Body: The Redeeming Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 (Slavonic) 

Enoch," The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism (Scrinium III; 

eds. B. Lourié and A. Orlov; St. Petersburg: Byzantinorossica, 2007) 385-389. 

"Лицо как небесный двойник мистика в славянской 'Лествице Иакова,'" Волшебная 

Гора (XIII; ed. A. Medvedev; Moscow, 2006) 56-77. 

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“The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob,” in: 

Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of Scripture (2 vols.; ed. 

C. A. Evans; Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity, 9; London: T&T Clark, 

2004) 2.59-76. 

“The Vessels of Light: The Luminous Aeon Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” 

In Memory of Sergei Averincev (eds. L. Borodai et al.; Moscow, 2008) (forthcoming). 

Articles in Journals 

“‘The Gods of My Father Terah’: Abraham the Iconoclast and the Polemics with the Divine 

Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 

18.1 (2008) 33-53. 

"Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham," Journal of 

Biblical Literature 127.1 (2008) 53-70. 

"The Pillar of the World: The Eschatological Role of the Seventh Antediluvian Hero in 2 

(Slavonic) Enoch," Henoch 30.1 (2008) 119-135. 

"The Heir of Righteousness and the King of Righteousness: The Priestly Noachic Polemics in 

2 Enoch and the Epistle to the Hebrews," Journal of Theological Studies 58 (2007) 45-65. 

"'Without Measure and Without Analogy:' Shiur Qomah Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” 

Journal of Jewish Studies 56 (2005) 224-244. 

“Noah’s Younger Brother Revisited: Anti-Noachic Polemics and the Date of 2 (Slavonic) 

Enoch,” Henoch 26 (2004) 172-87. 

“Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch and Merkabah 

Tradition,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14 (2004) 3-29. 

"The Pteromorphic Angelology of the Apocalypse of Abraham," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 

(2009) (forthcoming). 

“The Fallen Trees: Arboreal Metaphors and Polemics with the Divine Body Traditions in the 

Apocalypse of Abraham,” Harvard Theological Review (2009) (forthcoming). 

“The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” Journal for 

the Study of Judaism (2009) (forthcoming). 

Book Reviews 

Review of Alexander Kulik's Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward the Original 

of the Apocalypse of Abraham (Text-Critical Studies, 3; Atlanta: Society of Biblical 

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Literature, 2004) in: Review of Biblical Literature, May, 2005. 

Articles in Dictionaries 

"Slavonic Pseudepigrapha," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. Collins and D. 

Harlow; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) (forthcoming). 

"2 Enoch," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. Collins and D. Harlow; Grand 

Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009) (forthcoming). 

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Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath is an Associate Professor of Slavonic Studies at the 

Universities of Lund and Stockholm, and a Research Fellow in Slavonic Studies of the Royal 

Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He is a leading expert in the Judeo- 

Christian dialogue and anti-Judaic polemics in Medieval Russia. He published a two-volume 

study of the anti-Judaic literature of Medieval Rus’ (A Grin without a Cat, 1: Adversus 

Iudaeos Texts in the Literature of Medieval Russia (988–1504). Lund 2002; A Grin without a 

Cat, 2: Jews and Christians in Medieval Russia – Assessing the Sources. Lund 2002) and a 

monograph on the interaction and cross-fertilization of apocalyptic anticipations and writings 

within the Jewish and Christian communities of fifteenth-century Ruthenia (‘Whereby we 

know that it is the last time’: Musings on Anti-Messiahs and Antichrists in a Ruthenian 

Textual Community. Lund 2006). He is currently working on an edition of the extant 

fragments of a Slavonic collection of anti-Judaic prophecies, The Prophecy of Osiah on the 

Rejection of the Jews, to be published in 2009/10. The new findings on this text, resulting 

from his editorial work and from the recent studies by the scholars A. A. Gippius (Moscow) 

and J. Reinhart (Vienna) will cast new light on the earliest stages of anti-Judaica in the 

Russian Primary Chronicle, viz. the so-called Philosopher’s Speech, as recently suggested in 

Pereswetoff-Morath’s ‘Аграф пророка Ездры’ (2008). At present he works on the collection 

of Church Slavonic Spruchsammlungen with an anti-Judaic tendency, and on the important 

Slavonic version of the Teachings of Jacob the Jew. 


Book 

Whereby we know that it is the last time’: Musings on Anti-Messiahs and Antichrists in a 

Ruthenian Textual Community. Lund 2006. 

Papers, book chapters, and articles 

Христианский антииудаизм и иудейско–православные отношения в Восточной Славии 

в средние века и ранее новое время (до 1570 г.), История евреев в России, vol. 1, ed. А. 

Кулик, Москва & Иерусалим 2008/2009. 

Аграф пророка Ездры — вновь идентифицированный источник Речи Философа, 

Древняя Русь: вопросы медиевистики, 2008:3 (33). 

Адонаи, заблудихомъ! об образе спорящего жидовина в восточнославянской 

письменности (XIV–XV вв)», Еврейский исторический архив 4 (2007, Moskva). 

Simulacra of Hatred›: on the Occasion of an Historiographical Essay by Mr. 

Dennis Eoffe, Ab Imperio 2003:4 (2004; Kazan’) 

Forthcoming: 

The Image of the Iudaeus disputans in East Slavonic Literature (Fourteenth to Fifteenth 

Centuries)», to be published 2008/9 in a book (title yet to be decided) edited by Prof. M. V. 

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Dmitriev, Moscow. 

Ryss eller tysk, jude eller grek? Om konfessioner i Ryssland vid tiden för dess kristnande. [To 

be published in Svantevit: Dansk tidsskrift for slavistik]. 

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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is an Assistant Professor of Jewish History in History Department 

and the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. He authored two 

monographs, Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity (Cambridge 

University Press, 2008) and The Anti-Imperial Choice: the Making of the Ukrainian Jew 

(Yale University Press, 2009). He has been a National Endowment for Humanities Fellow in 

Poland, a Jewish Memorial Foundation Fellow in Russia, and a Fulbright Fellow in Ukraine 

studying 17-18th c. practical Kabbalah in the Slavic context. He has been a Visiting Scholar 

at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, a Visiting Professor at the 

University Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kyiv, and a Sensibar Visiting Professor at Spertus 

College in Chicago. He has published more than 50 articles in peer-review journals such as 

Ab Imperio, KRITIKA, Nations and Nationalities, Ukrainian Quarterly, Jewish Quarterly 

Review, POLIN, East European Jewish Affairs, Jewish History, Jewish Social Studies, and 

AJS Review. At present he is finishing his book The Shtetl As It Was, 1790-1830: the Jewish 

town material culture, and is working on a new book Practical Kabbalah and Natural 

Medicine, 1680-1740: the subculture of the ba'alei shem. 

Relevant bibliography since 2004: 

Practical Kabbalah and Natural Medicine, 1680-1740: the subculture of the ba'alei shem 

(monograph under construction). Written for the University of Pennsylvania Press series in 

Jewish mysticism and magic, this project will utilize hitherto unexamined Judaic and Slavic 

primary sources seeking to study the intersection of magic and medicine among Jews and 

Poles in late seventeenth-early eighteenth-century East Europe. It will illustrate how Jewish 

shamans, exorcists and itinerant healers, known as Ba’alei Shem (Masters of the Holy 

Name), practiced Jewish mysticism, manipulated divine and angelic names to effect healing; 

and combined these practices with popular medicine obtained from recently accessible 

Polish-language handbooks on the medicinal arts, from Jewish medical doctors, and from 

Polish and Jewish pharmacists. Although the Early Modern interaction between Jewish and 

Christian mystics in Europe has been explored lately, this will be the first study discussing 

Polish-Jewish cultural cross-fertilization in the field of magical practices and popular 

medicine. 

“The Master of an Evil Name: Hillel Ba’al Shem and His Sefer ha-Heshek,” Association of 

Jewish Studies Review, vol. 28, no. 2 (2004): 217-248. 

“The Drama of Berdichev: Levy Yitshak and His Town,” POLIN, no. 17 (2004), 83-95. 

“Ba’alei Shem” and “Demons” in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New 

Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 1: 99-100, 222-223. 

“Hasidei de-ara and hasidei de-kokhvaya: Two Trends in Modern Jewish Historiography,” 

Association of Jewish Studies Review, vol. 32, no. 1 (2008): 141-167. 

“Slaviansko-evreiskie kontakty v oblasti prakticheskoi magii i narodnoi meditsiny” (Slavic- 

Jewish Contacts in the Realm of Practical Magic and Popular Medicine), in Israel Bartal, 

Alexander Kulik, eds., Istoriia evreev Rossii (A History of the Jews in Russia), in 3 vols. 

(Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2008, in press). In Russian and Hebrew. 

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Editing, together with Antony Polonsky, volume no. 26 of POLIN: Journal of Jewish-Polish 

Studies on Ukraine (Oxford: Littman Library for Jewish Civilization, 2012), forthcoming. 

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Dan Shapira is an Associate Professor at the Bar Ilan University and a leading authority in 

the Khazar and Karaite Studies; he is widely recognized for his studies of the philological 

aspects of some key Early Slavic texts; for his multiple and unparalleled contributions to the 

Eastern (Iranian and Turkic) aspects of the Early Slavic and Old Rus’ian and of Yiddish; 

works relevant for the study of minority groups in Early-Mediaeval Eastern Europe. He coedited 

the volume entitled The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut- 

Qal’eh (the Crimea). Report of the Ben-Zvi Institute Expedition. A Collection of Studies, 

published Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem 2008 (in Hebrew). Currently he is preparing the 

Khazar Anthology, a compendium of all sources referring to the Khazars, commented and 

translated into Hebrew, whichh will be a fundamental contribution to the study of this muchdisputed 

issue of Judaic and Slavonic history and culture. 


Book edited 

The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut-Qal'eh (the Crimea). Report 

of the Ben-Zvi Institute Expedition. A Collection of Studies, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem 

מצבות בית העלמין של היהודים הקראים בצ'ופוט-קלעה,‏ קרים,‏ דו"ח משלחת pages]. [Hebrew; 563 2008 

אפיגרפית של מכון בן-צבי קוסץ מחקרים,‏ בעריכת דן ד"י שפירא ‏,מכון בן-צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח של 

יד יצחק בן-צבי והאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים,‏ ירושלים תשס"ח 

2008 / 


“Nynešneje sostojanije pripisok rukopisej Pervoj Kollekcii Firkoviča", Proceedings of the 

11th International Conference on Jewish Studies, Part 1, Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 

[Russian] / “The Present State of Some Colophons and Marginalia on the Bible Manuscripts 

in the First Firkowicz Collection", SEFER International Conference, Vol. 1, Moscow 2004, 

pp. 102-130 [Russian] 

"Indeed Ancestral Tombs? – Historical Data and their Modification in the Tombstone 

Inscriptions of Abraham Firkowicz", Pe’amim 98-99 (Winter-Spring 2004), pp. 261-318 

98-99 

261-317 / 2004) 

- 

‏"האמנם קברי אבות?‏ 

נתונים היסטוריים ועיבודם בכתובות המצבות של אברהם פירקוביץ",‏ פעמים 

תשס"ד),‏ עמ'‏ 

"Iazuqaiia, Zoroastrians, Manichaeans, Jews and Other Heretics in Mandaean Texts", Le 

Muséon 117:3-4 (2004), pp. 243-280 

D. Shapira & D. Vasyutinsky, "New Samaritan Findings in the Ukrainian National Library", 

כתבי " ' , (Hebrew). Hadshot ha-Shomronim 11-15 (2005), pp. 914-915 

914-915 

11-15 

ד 

וסיוטינסקי וד'‏ ד"י שפירא 

היד השומרוניים בספריית ג'‏ ורנאדסקי,‏ קיוב",‏ חדשות השומרונים 

‏(תשס"ה),‏ עמ'‏ 

D. Vasyutinski & D. D.Y. Shapira, "A Newly Found Collection of Samaritan manuscripts in 

the V. Vernadsky Ukrainian National Library in Kiev", Judea and Samaria Research 

Studies, 15 (Ariel 2006), pp. 221-226 

דריה וסיוטינסקי ודן ד"י שפירא,‏ ‏"אוסף חדש שנמצא בקייב:‏ הערות לקורות חקר השומרונים במאה ה-‏‎19‎‏",‏ 

מחקרי יהודה ושומרון טו ‏(תשס"ו עמ'‏ 

226-221 

,(2006 / 

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"Irano-Slavica. Notes for Iranian, Slavic, Eastern-European ("Russian"), Germanic, Turkic 

and Khazar Studies", AHMEa 14 (2005), pp. 197-230 [Ukrainian Translation: IРАНО- 

СЛАВІКА: Нотатки щодо іранських, слов’янських, східно-європейських («руських»), 

германських, тюркських та хазарських студій, Ruthenica VI (Kiev 2007), pp. 7-36] 

"Kak nabljudatel' transformiruet nabljudaemyj objekt: A. Firkovič na Kavkaze v 1840 g. i v 

1849-1850 gg. i ego vlijanie na gorskix jevreev" ["How an Observer Changes the Observed: 

Avraham Firkowicz in the Caucasus, 1840-41 and 1849-50, and His Impact on the 

Mountain Jews"], Judaica Rossica, IV (Moscow 2006), pp. 8-30 

"Armenian and Georgian Sources on the Khazars: A Re-Evaluation", The World of the 

Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar 

Colloquium, ed. H. Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A. Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 307- 

352 

"Iranian Sources on the Khazars", The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected 

Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium, ed. H. Ben-Shammai, 

P.B. Golden, A. Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 291-306 

"Remarks on Avraham Firkowicz and the Hebrew Mejelis 'Document'", Acta Orientalia 

Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 59:2 (2006), pp. 131-180 

“The Mejelis 'Document' and Tapani Harviainen: On Scholarship, Firkowicz and 

Forgeries”, Omeljan Pritsak Armağanı 

"Beginnings of the Jewish Research on the Mountain Jews", Mountain Jews Between Past 

and Present, ed. by Dan D.Y. Shapira, Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 2008, 

pp. 62-104 [Hebrew] (in press). " 

104-62 

ראשית המחקר היהודי על יהודי הקווקאז",‏ היהודים ההרריים בין עבר 

להווה,‏ בעריכת דן שפירא,‏ מכרז דהאן,‏ אוניברסיטת בר-אילן,‏ רמת גן תשס"ח,‏ עמ'‏ 

"Khazars and Karaites, Again", Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, (IV/13) (Black Sea Studies in 

memoriam of Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006), 2007, pp. 43-64 

“Persian, and especially Judeo-Persian, in the Medieval Crimea", Irano-Judaica VI, ed. Sh. 

Shaked & A. Netzer, Jerusalem 2008, pp. 253-289 

"Iconoclasts and Khazars, a Note", Scrinium 4: Patrologia Pacifica. Selected papers 

presented to the Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society 3rd Annual Conference (Nagoya , 

Japan , September 29 – October 1, 2006) and other patristic studies, ed. by V. Baranov & B. 

Lourié ( St. Petersburg , 2008), pp. 341-347 

"Some Notes on the History of the Crimean Jewry from the Ancient Times Until the End of 

the 19 th Century, With Emphasis on the Qrımçaq Jews in the First Half of the 19th 

Century", Jews and Slavs 19 (2007), ed. by W. Moskovich and L. Finberg, Jerusalem–Kyiv: 

Hebrew University; [Ukrainian] Institute of Jewish Studies, 2007, pp. 65-92 

"Notes on Early Jewish History in Eastern and Central Europe: The Rus', Khazar and Bulgar 

Dimensions", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 15 (2006/7), pp. 125-157 

"Jews in Khazaria", Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and 

Culture, vol. 3, ed. M. Avrum Ehrlich, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 1097-1104 

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“Mandaean and quasi-Mandaean Prototypes of some expressions in the Greek Cologne 

Mani Codex: Stray Aramaicist's Notes", Ravenna Iranologist Congress, Roma, pp. 457-465 

(forthcoming) 

“Jews in Southern Russia since Antiquity Till the Early Middle Ages”, & "Jews in the Early 

Medieval Period in Lands Adjacent to Russia" & "Oriental Jewish Communities in the 

territories on the Russian Empire and the Former SSSR", & “Khazar Legacy in Eastern 

Europe”, History of the Jews in Eastern Europe / Russia, Zalman Shazzar Centre (Hebrew) 

Jevrei v Severnom Pričernomorje ot Drevnosti do rannego Srednevekovja", Istorija Jevrejev 

Rossii, Moscow & Jerusalem: Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 11-41 

"Jevrei v ranneje Srednevekovje v sosednix s Rossijej stranax", Istorija Jevrejev Rossii, 

Moscow & Jerusalem: Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 42-72 

"Obščhiny jevrejev Vostoka na territorii Rossijckoj Imperii i Byvšego SSSR", Istorija 

Jevrejev Rossii, Moscow & Jerusalem: Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 73-85 

"Xazarskoje nasledije v Vostočnoj Jevrope", Istorija Jevrejev Rossii, Moscow & Jerusalem: 

Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 158-178 

Karaites in Eastern Europe in the Last Generations. Proceedings of the Jerusalem Karaite 

Colloquium, Ben-Zvi Institute and the Center for the Study of Polish Jewry and its Culture, 

Jerusalem 2007. 

. 

2007 

הקראים במזרח אירופה בדורות האחרונים 

דברי הכנס הקראי בירושלים,‏ מכון בן-צבי 

והמרכז לחקר יהדות פולין ותרבותה,‏ 

"Yiddish – Slavic, German or Oriental?", Knaan Volume (forthcoming) 

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Moshe Taube, Tamara and Saveli Grinberg Chair in Russian Studies, is a Professor in the 

Department of Linguistics and the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at the Hebrew 

University of Jerusalem. Since 2005, he serves as Academic Director of the Leonid Nevzlin 

Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University. He is a recognized 

authority in the fields of Slavic translations from Hebrew, as well as in that of Yiddish syntax. 

He has published widely on various topics in both fields. His seminal edition of the Slavonic 

Book of Esther, co-authored with H.G. Lunt, was published in the Harvard Series in Ukrainian 

Studies in 1998. His forthcoming monograph, an edition of the Logic of the Judaizers, 

including the Hebrew and Slavic texts of Maimonides’ Logical Vocabulary and al-Ghazali’s 

Intentions of the Philosophers is now in press at the Israel Academy of Sciences and 

Humanities. He has been Research Fellow at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and 

Eurasian Studies, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Warburg Institute in London, 

and Directeur d’Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Currently (Spring 

Semester 2009) he is Mihaychuk Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research 

Institute. 


Book 

The Logika of the Muscovite Judaizers : a 15th Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew. 

Text edited with apparatus, commentary, translation and word-index, Jerusalem: Israel 

Academy of Sciences and Humanities, forthcoming. 


‘The Vilnius 262 Psalter: A Jewish Translation?’, in W. Moskovich et al., eds., Jews And 

Slavs 14 (2004), 36-45. 

‘The Book of Job in Vilnius 262’, in: W. Moskovich et al., eds., Jews and Slavs 15 ( 2005), 

281-296. 

‘The 15th c. Ruthenian translations from Hebrew and the Heresy of the Judaizers: Is there a 

connection?’ in: V.V. Ivanov et al., eds., Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Muscovy, Ruthenia 

and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages, Moscow: OGI, 2005 [= UCLA Slavic Studies IV], 

185-208. 

‘Which Hebrew Text of Algazel’s Intentions served for the Translation of the Slavic 

Logika?’, in: M. Taube, R. Timenchik, S. Schwarzband, eds., Quadrivium: Festschrift in 

Honour of Professor Wolf Moskovich, Jerusalem 2006, 47-52. 

‘How imperfect can a Cleft Sentence be? Focusing dos- and es-Sentences in Yiddish’, in T. 

Bar and E. Cohen, eds., Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honour of Gideon 

Goldenberg, Münster 2007 [=AOAT 334], 345-377 

‘The «Praise of the Virtuous Woman» from Hilandar’, in Slovo 56-57, Zagreb 2008, 545-558. 

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Book Reviews 

review of Joel Raba, The Contribution and the Recompense: The Land and the People of 

Israel in Medieval Russian Thought, Tel Aviv: Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center 

ישראל ועם ישראל ארץ ‏;והתמורה התרומה"‏ ‏,רבא יואל ‏[על]‏ .233-237 ,(2006) 71/2 Zion, ,2003 in: 

233-237 ‏(ו”תשס)‏ ב ‏,עא ציון ‏.(ג”תשס)‏ ‏"הביניים בימי רוסיה של הרוחני בעולמה 

Encyclopedic Entries 

‘East Slavic texts’, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale University Press, 

2008. 

Books edited 

Quadrivium: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wolf Moskovich, Jerusalem 2006 [with R. 

Timenchik, S. Schwarzband] 

Jews and Slavs Vol. 20 (2008) The Holy Land and the manuscript legacy of Slavs. [with W. 

Moskovich, S. Nikolova] 

‘A Long(-Forgotten) passive construction in Old Rusian’, to appear in Harvard Ukrainian 

Studies, vol. 28, forthcoming. 

‘Kemoy-subordinatsye in yidish: narative az-zatsn’, to appear in C. Rosenzweig et alii (eds.) 

Festschrift for Khave Turniansky, forthcoming. 

‘Verbal Hendiadys in Yiddish’, to appear in N. Jacobs, J. van der Auwera, H. I. Aronson and 

T. Shannon (eds.) Yiddish and Typology, forthcoming. 

‘Diffusion of Science in the Easternmost Outpost of Ashkenaz in the 15th Century’, to appear 

in Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, forthcoming. 

‘The Slavic version of Maimonides’ treatise De Coitu’, (with W.F. Ryan), to appear in an 

edition of De Coitu in Arabic, Hebrew Latin and Slavic edited by Charles Burnett and Gerrit 

Bos, forthcoming. 

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Curriculum Vitae 

Moshe Taube 

1948 Born in Szczecin, Poland 

1956 Emigrated to Israel with parents 

1969 BA studies in Linguistics and History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

1972 BA degree in Linguistics (with distinction), Hebrew U of Jerusalem 

1972-75 Teaching Assistant, Dept of Linguistics, Hebrew U of Jerusalem 

1975 MA degree in Linguistics (with distinction), Hebrew U of Jerusalem 

1975-79 Post-graduate studies in Paris: Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-4), 

Université de Paris-Vincennes (Paris-8) and École Pratique des Hautes Études (4-ème 

section) 

1975-79 Teaching Assistant in Yiddish and Hebrew Linguistics, Institut National des 

Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris. 

1979 Doctoral degree from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne in Slavic Linguistics. 

1979 Appointed instructor in Linguistics, Hebrew U of Jerusalem 

1980 Appointed associate lecturer, Dept of Linguistics, and Dept of Russian and 

Slavic 

Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

1981-3 Adjunct lecturer in Yiddish at the Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba 

1983-6 Lecturer in Linguistics and in Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University 

1986-9 Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University 

1986-7 Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Russian Research Center 

1992-3 Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 

1993-6 Chair, Dept of Linguistics, Hebrew University 

1995-2002 Associate Professor, Hebrew University 

1998-9 Visiting Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 

2001-2005 Head of the Institute of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University 

2002- Professor, Hebrew University 

2004- Tamara and Saveli Grinberg Chair in Russian Studies, Hebrew University 

2005-…….Academic Director, Leonid Nevzlin Center for Russian and East European Jewry 

Personal details: married + 3 children 

Address: 10 Shikun Hariel, Beit ha-Kerem, Jerusalem 96223 Israel 

tel. (home) 972-2-6513819, (office) 972-2-5883835 

e-mail: mstaube@mscc.huji.ac.il

Moshe Taube 

Doctoral Dissertation: 

Les formes verbales et leurs emplois dans la chronique moscovite de la fin du XVème siècle. 

Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV) October 1979, directed by Prof. Jacques Veyrenc. 

Publications 

On the Penetration of the Perfect into the Russian Narrative System, Russian Linguistics 5 

(1980) 121-131. 

Participe et Gérondif en Vieux Russe, Folia Linguistica Historica 2/1 (1981) 125-132. 

Slavic-Hebrew Concordantial Glossary to the five Biblical Scrolls, in M. Altbauer, The 

Five Biblical Scrolls in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Translation into Belorussian, 

Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1992, pp. 249-421. 

Le Parfait Participial en Yiddish, Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 77 (1982) 

331-340. 

Langues-être, Langues-avoir et le Yiddish, Orbis 33/1-2 (1984) [1989], 222-235. 

(with M. Altbauer) The Slavonic Book of Esther: When, Where and from What Language 

Was it Translated, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8/3 (1984), 19-35. 

Le Développement d'un Auxiliaire Modal en Yiddish: lozn 'laisser', in J. Fisiak (ed.) Papers 

from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics [=Amsterdam Studies in the 

Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 34] 

(1985), 499-514. 

On Two Related Slavic Translations of the Song of Songs, Slavica Hierosolymitana 7 

(1985), 203-210. 

Old Russian blyskæ 'pavement'? Die Welt der Slaven 31/1 (1986), 1-4. 

The Development of Aspectual Auxiliaries in Yiddish, Word 38/1 (1987), 13-25. 

Solomon's Chalice, the Latin Scriptures and the Bogomils, Slovo 37 (1987) 161-169. 

(with H. Olmsted) Povest' o Esfiri: The Ostroh Bible and Maksim Grek's Translation of the 

Book of Esther, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 11 (1987), 100-117. 

(with H.G.Lunt) Early East-Slavic Translations from Hebrew? Russian Linguistics 12 (1988), 

147-187. 

An Early 12th Century Kievan Fragment of the Beseda Trex Svqtytelej, Harvard Ukrainian 

Studies 12-13 (1988-89), 346-359. 

O Henezyse Odnoho Rasskaza v Sostave Ellynskoho Letopysca Vtoroj Redakcyy (o Vzqtyy 

Yerusalyma Tytom) , in W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Russian Literature and History: in 

Honour of Professor I. Serman, Jerusalem 1989, 146-151. 

Une Source Inconnue de la Chronographie Russe: le 'Dialogue de Timothée et Aquila', 

Revue des Études Slaves 63/1 (1991), 113-122. 

On some Unidentified and Misidentified Sources of the Academy Chronograph ; in W. 

Moskovich et alii (eds.) Russian Philology and Literature presented to Prof. Victor D. Levin 

on his 75th birthday, Jerusalem 1992, 365-375. 

On the Slavic Life of Moses and its Hebrew Sources; in W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Jews

and Slavs 1, Jerusalem-St. Petersburg 1993, 84-119. 

On Factivity, Emotivity and Choice of Conjunction in Yiddish, Studies in Language 18/1 

(1994), 113-125. 

(with Y. Mazor) A Hassidic Ritual Dance: the Mitsve-Tants in Jerusalemite Weddings; in I. 

Adler, F. Alvarez-Pereyre, E. Serrousi and L. Shalem (eds.) Studies in Jewish Oral Tradition: 

an Interdisciplinary Approach [=Yuval 6], Jerusalem, 1994, 164-224. 

(with H.G. Lunt) The Slavonic Book of Esther: Translation from the Hebrew or Evidence for 

a lost Greek Text?, Harvard Theological Review 87/3 (1994) 347-362. 

The Kievan Jew Zacharia and the Astronomical Works of the Judaizers, in W. Moskovich 

et alii (eds.) Jews And Slavs 3 (1995), 168-198. 

The "Poem on the Soul" in the Laodicean Epistle and the Literature of the Judaizers, 

Harvard Ukrainian Studies 19 (1995), 671-685. 

Echo-Construction in Yiddish, Massorot 10 (1995), 397-421 [in Hebrew] 

Poslesovye k Lohyçeskym Termynam Maymonyda y Eres\ Ûydovstvugwyx, in 

N.M.Botvinnik and E.I.Vaneeva (eds.) In Memoriam: Pamqty Q. S. Lur\e , S-Peterburg: Izd. 

"Feniks", 1997, 239-246.. 

The Spiritual Circle in the Secret of Secrets and the Poem on the Soul, Harvard Ukrainian 

Studies 18 (3/4) December 1994 [1998]: 342-355 

(with H.G. Lunt) The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis, Problems 

of Translation , Cambridge: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 1998. 

‘Podlynn¥j y v¥m¥ßlennn¥j Yerusalym v vostoçnoslavqnskyx perevodax s evrejskoho 15-ho 

veka’, in W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Jews And Slavs 7 (2000) : 41-47. 

‘The Vilnius 262 Psalter: A Jewish Translation?’, in W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Jews And 

Slavs 14 (2004), 36-45. 

The Book of Job in Vilnius 262, in: W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Jews and Slavs 15, Jerusalem 

-Sofia 2005, 281-296. 

The 15th c. Ruthenian translations from Hebrew and the Heresy of the Judaizers: Is there a 

connection?’ in: V.V. Ivanov et alii (eds.), Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Muscovy, Ruthenia 

and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages, Moscow: OGI, 2005 [= UCLA Slavic Studies IV], 

185-208. 

Which Hebrew Text of Algazel’s Intentions served for the Translation of the Slavic Logika?, 

in: M. Taube, R. Timenchik, S. Schwarzband (eds.), Quadrivium: Festschrift in Honour of 

Professor Wolf Moskovich, Jerusalem 2006, 47-52. 

‘How imperfect can a Cleft Sentence be? Focusing dos- and es-Sentences in Yiddish’, in T. 

Bar and E. Cohen (eds.), Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honour of Gideon 

Goldenberg, Münster 2007, 345-377 [=AOAT 334] 

‘The «Praise of the Virtuous Woman» from Hilandar’, in M. Mihajlevic et alii (eds.) Slovo 

56-57 (Festschrift for Anica Nazor), Zagreb 2007, 1-14. 

In press 

The Logika of the Muscovite Judaizers : a 15th Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew.

Text edited with apparatus, commentary, translation and word-index, Jerusalem: Israel 

Academy of Sciences and Humanities 

‘A Long(-Forgotten) passive construction in Old Russian’, to apppear in H. Goldblatt et alii 

(eds.) Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 28. 

‘Kemoy-subordinatsye in yidish: narative az-zatsn’, to appear in C. Rosenzweig et alii (eds.) 

Festschrift for Khave Turniansky. 

‘Verbal Hendiadys in Yiddish’, to appear in N. Jacobs, J. van der Auwera, H. I. Aronson and 

T. Shannon (eds.) Yiddish and Typology.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

EDUCATION 

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YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN 

Assistant Professor in Modern Jewish History 

Northwestern University 

1881 Sheridan Rd., Harris Hall, Room 202, Evanston, Il 60208 

Phone: (847) 467-3399 

Fax: (847) 467-1393 

e-mail: yps@northwestern.edu 

Assistant Professor, Department of History and the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Northwestern 

University, 2003—present 

Fulbright Visiting Professor, University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Fall, 2008 

The Sensibar Visiting Professor, Spertus College, Chicago, 2007-2008 

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Fall, 2007 

Northwestern Summer Holocaust Institute, 2005—2007 

Lecturer, Judaic and Slavic Studies, Tufts University, 2000—2003 

Lecturer, Hebrew College, Boston, 1999—2003 

Chair, Department of Judaic Studies, International Solomon University, Kyiv, 1993—1995 

Senior Research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1992—1995 

Lecturer, double appointment, Comparative Literature and Spanish Philology Departments, Kyiv State 

University, 1988—1993 

Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2001 (Modern Jewish History) 

Dissertation: “Jews in the Russian Army, 1827—1914” 

Adviser: Antony Polonsky. Readers: Michael Stanislawski, Gregory Freeze. 

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Moscow University (MGU), 1988 

Dissertation: “The Poetics of Gabriel García Márquez” 

Adviser: Svetlana Eremina-Piskunova. Readers: Eleazar Meletinsky, Natalia Malinovsky. 

M.A., Philology of German and Romance Languages, Kiev University (KGU), 1984 

Intensive studies of Rabbinics: Yeshivat Ohr Somayach, Israeli Division, Jerusalem, 1993, 

1995, 1996; havruta/continuing studies: with Prof. David Kazhdan, Boston, 1997-2001; with Rabbi 

Ochs, Boston, 2000-2003; with Rabbi Beider, Chicago, 2004-2007. 

Rothschild Fellow at Hebrew University, 1995/06: Studied with Shaul Stampfer. Took courses with Yosi 

Kaplan 

and Immanuel Etkes. 

Studies in Jewish Paleography, Institute of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem; certificate, 1993. 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH INTERESTS 

East European Jewish History and Culture (studied with Antony Polonsky, Moshe Rosman and Shaul 

Stampfer) 

Jewish Social History, Archives and Documents (studied with Jonathan Sarna) 

Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah (studied with Arthur Green) 

Spanish-Jewish and Jewish intellectual history (courses taken with Isador Twersky) 

Jewish Liturgy (studied with Reuven Kimelman) 

Jewish Paleography (Institute of Judaic Studies, Jerusalem, intensive course, Summer, 2003) 

Slavic Cultures (informal studies with Miron Petrovsky and Vadym Skuratovs’kyi) 

Theory of Culture (spiritual mentors, no personal contacts: Yuri Lotman, Aleksei Losev, Sergei Averintsev) 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 

Fulbright Visiting Scholar/Research Fellowship, 2008 

Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 2007


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Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Grant, 2007—2008 

Cohn Scholars Fund, Spertus College, 2007 

Faculty Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2006, 2007, 2008 

National Endowment for Humanities Summer Fellowship, 2006 

Faculty Reading Group in Central and East European Jewish History, 2006 

Fellow Assistant Researcher Award, Northwestern University, 2006 

Faculty Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2006 

The Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, Fellow, 2003—2006 

University of Illinois Russian and the U.S. Department of State Title VIII Program, Summer Fellowship, 2004 

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Visiting Fellowship, Paris, 1995 and 2003 

Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2002—2003 

Nachum Glatzer Prize for the Dissertation, Brandeis University, 2001 

Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1997—1998; 1998—1999 

Ruth Ann Perlmutter Scholarship, Brandeis University, 1996—2000 

Rothschild Fellowship, Yad Hanadiv/Barecha Foundation, Jerusalem, 1995—1996 

Jerusalem Fellows/Amite Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, 1995—96 (declined) 

Grant for Social Leadership, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1994 

Research Fellowship, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies (CREES), University of Toronto, 1993 

PUBLICATIONS IN JEWISH STUDIES 

BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS 

The Anti-Imperial Choice: the Making of the Ukrainian Jew, in press, forthcoming in March, 2009, with 

Yale University Press. 

Jews in the Russian Army, 1827—1917: Drafted into Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 

2008) 

Evrei v russkoi armii, 1827—1914 [Jews in the Russian Army]. Moscow: book series Historia Rossica; Novoe 

Literaturnoe Obozrenie Publ., 2003.—555 p. 

Reviews: Oleh Maievs’kyi, [review], in KRYTYKA, no. 11 (85) (2004), 20; Aleksandr Melikhov, “Evrei i russkaia armia—sto 

let vmeste,” Znamia, no. 8 (2004), http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2004/8/mel20.html; Aleksandr Ostrogorskii, “David na 

sluzhbe u Goliafa,” Knizhnoe obozrenie (August 1, 2003), http://book-review.ru/news/news867.html; Andrei Gromov, “Zhizn 

za tsaria,” Ezhenedelnyi zhurnal, no. 076 (July 1, 2003), http://prev.ej.ru/076/life/litera/03/index.html; Vadim Nesterov, 

“Kogda evreiskoe kazachestvo vosstalo,” Gazeta (July 1, 2003); Aleksandr Lakshin, Ab Imperio, no. 4 (2003), 659—666; 

Valerii Dymshits, “Igra v soldatiki,” Narod knigi v mire knig, no. 2 (2004), 9—11; Mark Shteinberg, “Chto zhe delali evrei v 

russkoi armii?,” Mezhdunarodnaia evreiskaia gazeta no. 49 (2003), http://www.jig.ru/meadle_east/049.html, V. Akunov, 

‘Evrei v russkoi armii i unter Trumpeldor,” Reitar: voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal, no. 13 (2005) 

Shtetl As It Was, 1790—1830, a book project on the shtetl’s material culture under construction. Tentative date 

for submission: December, 2008. 

Practical Kabbalah in Eastern Europe, 1660—1750, a book project under construction. Tentative date 

for submission: October, 2009. 

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS (*--peer-reviewed venues) 

“Evrei i armiia: sotsialnye i kul’turnye aspekty” (Jews and the Army: Social and Cultural Aspects), and 

“Slaviansko-evreiskie kontakty v oblasti prakticheskoi magii i narodnoi meditsiny” (Slavic-Jewish 

Contacts in the Realm of Practical Magiv and popular Medicine), two book chapters forthcoming in 

Israel Bartal, ed., Istoriia evreev Rossii (A History of Jews in Russia), in 3 vols. (Jerusalem: Zalman 

Shazar, 2008). In Russian and Hebrew.* 

“The Enemy of the Humanity: the Anti-Napoleon Paradigm in Russian Imagination and the Genesis of the 

Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (an expanded version of the Russian article published in 2005), 

forthcoming in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: One Hundred Year Myth and Its Impact, to be 

published by Steven Roth Center, Tel-Aviv University Press.* 

“Konstruiuvannia neimovirnoi identychnosti: vypadok Hryts’ka Kernerenka” (a Ukrainian version of the essay 

published by Ab Imperio in 2005), Vidkrytyi Arkhiv (Instytut “Krytyky” and Ukrainian research

2009), 

Institute at Harvard University, 2006), accepted for publication, forthcoming. 

“An Unlikely Alliance: the 1907 Ukrainian-Jewish electoral coalition,” Nations and Nationalism (Spring, 

in press (co-authored with Joshua Shanes).* 

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“Ba’alei Shem,” “Demons,” “Ukrainian literature,” “Military Service in Russia,” “Yakov Brafman,” five 

articles 

in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 1: 

99-100, 222-223, 401-402, 2: 1170-1174. 

“From the Shtetl with Love: an Episode in Ukrainian-Jewish Literary History,” a book chapter in Jewish 

Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen 

(Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2008), 63—98.* 

“Hasidei de-ara and hasidei de-kokhvaya: Two Trends in Modern Jewish Historiography,” AJS Review, vol. 

32, 

no. 1 (2008): 141-167.* 

“The Marketplace in Balta: Aspects of Economic and Cultural Life,” East European Jewish Affairs, vol. 37, no. 

3 (2007): 277—298.* 

“Novitnii Moisei: ukrains’ko-ievreis’kyi poet u protsessi stanovlennia,” (A New Moses: a Ukrainian-Jewish 

poet 

in the making; an expanded Ukrainian version of the 2004 English article published in East European 

Jewish Affairs), Yehupets, no. 16 (2006): 100-124. 

“Mertvye evrei: zametki o priemlemom proshlom,” (“The Dead Jews:” an authorized Russian version of my 

essay previously published in 2004 in Ab Imperio), Problemy istorii Holokostu, no. 3 (2006): 66-84. 

available on-line at: http://tkuma.dp.ua/images/stories/jurnal/z3.pdf* 

“Russian Legislation and Jewish Self-Governing Institutions: the case of Kamenets-Podol’sk,” essay, 

and “The Minute-book of the Kamnits (Kamenets) Burial Society,” translated and commented edition 

of the 1798/99 Hebrew document, Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, no. 1 (56) (2006), 107—130.* 

“’We Are Too Late:’ Shloyme Ansky and his Paradigm of No Return,” forthcoming in The Worlds of Ansky: A 

Russian-Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century, ed. by Gabriella Safran and Stephen 

Zipperstein, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 83—102.* 

“The Expansion of the Visual: reflections on sixteenth century illuminated Yiddish books,” Jewish History, 

vol. 20, no. 2 (2006), 231—241.* 

“On Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Middle Path,’” Polin, no. 18 (2005), 381—392. 

The Construction of an Improbable Identity: the case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko,” essay; “From the Literary 

Legacy of Hryts’ko Kernerenko,” the publication of 1890-1900s Ukrainian literary documents, Ab 

Imperio, no. 1 (2005), 191—241; 241—255.* 

“The Literary and the Historical: Reflections on a Jewish Memoir,” Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR), vol. 95, 

no. 1 (2005), 91—99.* 

“Vrag roda chelovecheskogo:’ o ‘protokol’noi’ paradigme v russkom obschestvennom soznanii,” (’The Enemy 

of the Humanity:’ On the Paradigm of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russian Mentality), in 

Lev Gudkov, ed., Obraz vraga (The Image of the Enemy) (Moscow: OGI, 2005), 102—126. (Natsia i 

kul’tura. Novye Issledovania: Rossiia/Russia). 

“Ukraine Jewish Culture,” “Moisei Fishbein,” two articles in Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, ed. by 

Glenda Abramson. 2 vols. (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), vol. 1: 270—271; vol. 2: 915— 

921. 

“The Master of an Evil Name: Hillel Ba’al Shem and His Sefer ha-Heshek,” Association of Jewish Studies 

Review (AJSR), vol. 28, no. 2 (2004): 217—248.*

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“The Drama of Berdichev: Levy Yitshak and His Town,” Polin, no. 17 (2004), 83—95. 

“’The Dead Jews:’ A Reflection on Two Models of Useable Past,” Ab Imperio, no. 4 (2004): 193—204.* 

“Jews in Ukrainian Thought: Between the 1940s and the 1990s,” The Ukrainian Quarterly vol. LX, nos. 3—4 

(Fall-Winter 2004): 231—270.* 

“Do ievreis’ko-ukrains’koho dialohu: Roman Rakhmannyi,” (Toward a Ukrainian-Jewish Dialogue: The Case 

of Roman Rakhmanny), Yehupets, no. 14 (2004), 353—362. 

“Hasidism, Havurot and the Jewish Street,” Jewish Social Studies, vol. 10, no. 2 (2004): 20—54.* 

“Dual Identity Revisited: The Case of Russian-Jewish Soldiers,” essay, and “The Minute Book of the 

Guardians of Faith Society,” translated and commented edition of the 1843 Hebrew document, Jews in 

Russia and Eastern Europe, no. 1 (2004), 130—144.* 

“The Coming of a New Moses: Ukrainian-Jewish Poet in the Making,” East European Jewish Affairs, vol. 34, 

no. 1 (2004): 12—28.* 

“Reconceptualizing the Alien: Jews in Modern Ukrainian Thought,” Ab Imperio, no. 4 (2003): 519—580.* 

“Contextualizing the Mystery: Three Approaches to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” KRITIKA: 

Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, no. 2 (2003): 395—409.* 

“In Search of a Lost People: Jews in Present-Day Ukrainian Historiography,” East European Jewish 

Affairs, no. 1 (2003): 67—82.* 

“The Revival of Academic Studies of Judaica in Independent Ukraine,” in Jewish Life After the USSR: A 

Community in Transition, ed. by Zvi Gitelman et al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), 

152—172.* 

“Isaak Vavilonskii: iazyk i stil v Odesskikh rasskazakh Babelia,” (Isaac of Babylonia: language and style in 

Babel’s Odessa Stories), Yehupets, no. 13 (2004): 88—100. 

“The Guardians of Faith, or Jewish Self-Governing Societies in the Russian Army: the case of Briansk 35 th 

regiment,” in The Military and Society in Russia, 1450 to 1917. Edited by Eric Lohr and Marshall Poe 

(Leiden: Brill, 2002), 413—434.* 

“The Jewish Policy of the War Ministry in Late Imperial Russia: the Impact of the Russian Right,” KRITIKA: 

Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, no. 2 (2002): 217—254.* 

“Russkii Dibbuk: obrazy i perevoploshchenia,” (The Russian Dybbuk: images and metamorphosis), a commented 

edition of Ansky’s original of The Dybbuk, Yehupets, no. 10 (2002): 167—247. 

“Sud’ba ‘srednei linii,’” (The Fate of the Middle Path: on Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together), 

Neprikosnovennyi zapas, no. 4 (18) (2001): 38—49. 

“Odissei sredi kentavrov,” (Ulysses among the Centaurs: Jews and Cossacks in Babel’s Red Cavalry), Yehupets, 

no. 9 (2001): 219—228. 

WORK IN PROGRESS 

BOOKS 

Shtetl As It Was, 1790-1830. This book project seeks to reconstruct the material culture of the shtetl—a small East 

European town with a substantial Jewish population—between the 1790s and the 1830s. This period was 

marked by a collapse of power: Polish authority waned following the partitions of Poland, yet it was years 

before Russia’s bureaucracy established itself in newly acquired lands containing a Jewish population of 

roughly one million. Clashes between the Polish gentry and the Russian administration resulted in the 

transformation of many shtetls from privately-owned Polish towns into state-owned Russian towns and the 

submission of their inhabitants, previously under Polish rule, to the Russian state. Shtetl As It Was is a social,

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institutional, and cultural portrayal of the Jewish communities in three provinces of the Russian empire: Kiev, 

Podol, and Volhynia. It focuses on the shtetl’s economy, with a special emphasis on its real estate and 

marketplace, trade and contraband; philanthropy; and cultural life. I seek to discover how economic and social 

conditions shaped the behavioral patterns of shtetl dwellers. It is partially based on previously published articles 

no. 13, 17, 26, 30, and 36. Tentative date for submission: May, 2009. 

2. Practical Kabbalah and Popular Medicine, 1700-1750, a book project intended for the University of Pennsylvania 

Press book series in Jewish magic and mysticism. Relying upon hitherto unexamined Polish and Jewish 

sources, this project will examine the intersection of magic and medicine among Jews and Poles in early 

eighteenth-century East Europe. It will illustrate how Jewish shamans, exorcists and itinerant healers, known 

as Ba’alei Shem (Masters of the Holy Name), practiced Jewish mysticism, called Kabbalah; manipulated divine 

and angelic names to effect healing; and combined these practices with popular medicine obtained from 

recently accessible Polish-language handbooks on the medicinal arts, from Jewish medical doctors, and from 

Polish and Jewish pharmacists. Although the Early Modern interaction between Jewish and Christian mystics 

in Europe has been explored lately, no serious study has yet been undertaken of Polish-Jewish cultural crossfertilization 

in the field of magical practices and popular medicine. 

Editing, together with Antony Polonsky, volume of POLIN: journal of Jewish-Polish Studies on Ukraine. Tentative date 

of publication: 2012. 

Editing, together with Glenn Dynner, Historically Speaking…: Festschrift in honor of my mentor, Littman Library of 

Jewish Civilization, 2010. It will include papers by the top senior scholars working in the field of East Central and East 

European Jewish History and Culture. 

Editing, together with Dean Bell, Rethinking Early Modernity (new approaches to 15 th -17 th century European Jewish 

History). This book project will include papers presented at an international conference on Early Modern Jewish History 

in 2009. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 

Over 70 publications including editions, articles, reviews, and translations such as: 

Edition, preface, translation, and commentary in Jorge Luis Borges, Pismena Boga (Epistles of God), 

Moscow: Respublica Publishers, 1992; reprinted: Moscow: Respublica Publishers, 1994; Moscow: 

OLMA-Press, 2000. – 511 P; multiple partial reprints, 2002-2008. 

Edition, preface, translation, and commentary in Jose Ortega y Gasset, Etiudy ob Ispanii (Essays on Spain), 

Kiev: Por Royal Publishers, 1994. – 319 P. 

Edition, preface, translation, and commentary in Leonardo Sciascia, Smert inkvizitora (The Death of the 

Inquisitor), Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1994. 

Commentaries in Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Sochinenia v trekh tomakh (Selected Writings, 3 vols.), (Moscow: 

Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1990), 1: 432—445, 2: 447—461, 3: 459—476; partially reprinted in 

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Chelovek, kotoryi byl chetvergom. Vozvrashchenie Don Kikhota. Rasskazy. 

Stikhotvorenia. Esse (Moscow; NF “Pushkinskaia biblioteka,” 2006) (Zolotoi fond mirovoi klassiki), 

773—797; partial reprints in various editions, 2003-2007. 

“Mif i kultura,” [Myth and Culture], Voprosy literatury, no. 5 (1990): 249—256. 

“Znaki Moskvy i kolumbiiskaia deistvitel’nost,” [The Signs of Moscow and the Reality of Colombia: Soviet 

and Stalin myth in Gabriel García Márquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch], Voprosy literatury, no. 1 

(1990): 112—139. 

“Po napravleniu k poetike: Gabriel García Márquez v zarubezhnom literaturovedenii,” [Towards the 

Poetics: García Márquez in Western Literary Criticism], Voprosy literatury, no. 7 (1987): 239—260. 

COURSES TAUGHT 

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 

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Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism (392/395: senior seminar), Winter, 2008 

Readings in Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism (392: senior seminar), Spring, 2008 

The Making of Modern Nationalisms (399: independent study seminar, requested), Winter, 2008 

European Anti-Semitism in the Interwar Period, and the Rise of Turkish National Discourse (399: independent 

study course, requested), Spring, 2008 

Jews in the Soviet Union (391: lecture course, power-point), Spring, 2007 

Modern Jewish History (391: lecture course), Winter, 2005; Spring, 2006 (Holocaust Institute), Winter, 2007 

Senior Honors Seminar (398: 1-3), Fall, 2006, Winter, 2007, Spring, 2007 

Making of the Shtetl: Cultural History of the Jewish Town in Poland (392/395 senior seminar), Winter, 2007 

Soviet Union Jewish Experiment, 1917—1991 (Alumni Continuing Education School), Fall, 2006 

East European Jewish Experience (391: lecture course), 10 th c.—1917, Spring, 2004, Spring, 2006 

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Jewish History (203: lecture course), 1492—1789, Winter, 2004, Winter, 2006; 

Winter, 2008; 

Polish-Jewish Relations, 13-18 th century (391: Northwestern Summer School in Krakow), Summer, 2005 

Soviet Union Jewish Experiment, 1917—1991 (391: lecture course), Spring, 2005 

Imperial Russia History (499: graduate students reading course, requested), Spring, 2005 

20 th Century Russian-Jewish Literature (438: graduate seminar, Slavic Studies Department), Spring, 2005 

Origins of Zionism (101: freshman seminar), Winter, 2005 

East European Jewish Historiography (499: graduate students reading course), Fall, 2004 

Between History and Memory: Autobiography as a historical source (392/395: senior seminar), Spring, 2004 

The Image of the Jew in Modern Literature (101: freshman seminar), Winter, 2004 

Franz Kafka in History, Culture, and Religion (399: seminar/independent study, requested), Spring, 2004 

THESIS SUPERVISED 

Daniel Magliocco, “Franz Kafka and Jewish Culture in Prague” (senior honors thesis, 2005-06) 

Elliot Gaynon, “Walter Benjamin and the New Left” (senior honors thesis, 2005-06) 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES/SUMMER SCHOOLS/INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS 

“Ukraine’s Anti-Imperial Choice: the Case of Leonid Pervomais’kyi,” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian 

Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, July 28, 2008 

“’You Will Find it in the Pharmacy:’ Slavic-Jewish Contacts in the Field of Practical Magic and Popular 

Medicine,” presentation at the international conference “Jewish Mystical and Messianic Movements in 

their Social and Religious Contexts: The Eastern European Case,” Ohio State University, May 18-19, 

2008. 

“The Anti-Colonialist Modernity: Zmitrok Biadulia and the Making of a Belorussian Jew,” presentation at the 

39 th Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, Toronto, December 15, 2007 

Respondent at the Panel “Literature of the 1920s and 1930s,” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and 

East European Languages Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 28, 2007 

“What Did They Read: the Shtetl and Its Hasidic Books,” presentation at the Institute for Advanced Studies, 

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, November 22, 2007. 

Chaired the session “Israel and the Middle East,” at the Symposium in Honor of Jacob Lassner, “The 

University and the Near East in the 21 st Century: Reflections on the Changing Course of Islamic 

and Jewish Studies,” Northwestern University, May 20-21, 2007 

“Hasidei de-ara and hasidei de-yarkha: two trends in Modern Jewish Historiography,” presentation at the 

38 th Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, December 17-19, 2006, San Diego 

“Prakticheskaia kabbala i narodnaia meditsyna: pol’skie ba’alei shem” (Practical Kabbalah and Popular 

Medicine: the Case of Polish Ba’alei Shem), VIII Annual Conference of the European Association of 

Jewish Studies, July 26, 2006, Moscow, Russia 

“An Imperial Court vs. a Colonial Ghetto: East European Jews and Postcolonial Discourse,” paper presented at 


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the International Conference “East European Jewish Modernity: Legacies, Dialogues, Comparisons,” 

at Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv, June 5-6, 2006 

“Two Subalterns in an Imperial Context: the 1907 Ukrainian-Jewish electoral coalition,” paper presented at 

2006 Borderland Seminar at Brown University, May 24, 2006 (with Joshua Shanes) 

Chaired the panel: “Constructed Identities: Jewish responses to Habsburg Multi-Nationalism,” 37 th Annual 

Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, December 19—21, 2005, Washington D.C. 

“Jews, Christians, and the Languages of the Practical Kabbalah,” presentation at the 37 th Annual Conference of 

the Association of Jewish Studies, December 19—21, 2005, Washington D.C. 

“A Search for a Non-Colonial Framework: Yiddish Writers in Ukrainian Press, 1924-1933,” presentation at 

Oxford University Conference dedicated to Dovid Bergelson, Oxford, August 24, 2005 

“Love and Hatred: Satirical Origins of Neo-Hasidism,” presentation at the Fourteenth World Congress on 

Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 3, 2005 (co-authored by David Starr, Hebrew College, Boston) 

“Neo-Colonial Challenges to Post-Revolutionary Ukraine,” presentation at the “Cultures of Democracy” 

Conference of the Center for Global Culture and Communication, Northwestern University, April 21- 

13, 2005 

“Spanish in the Zohar,” paper presented at the 36 th Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies, 

Chicago, December 21, 2004 

“’The Enemy of the Humanity:’ Napoleon Bonaparte and the Genesis of the Protocols,” presented at 

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: The 100-years Myth and its Impact,” The Howard 

Gilman International Conference, Tel-Aviv University, October, 24—26, 2004 

“Visual and Auditory in Early Modern Jewish Culture,” paper presented at the 13 th Annual Conference of the 

Midwest Association of Jewish Studies, Chicago, October 27, 2004 

“The Construction of the Ukrainian-Jewish Identity: the case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko,” presented at the 

23 rd Annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June, 21, 

2004 

“The Ukrainian-Jewish Identity: the case of Political, Business, and Cultural Elites,” presented at the 

Rappaport Center Conference “Russian-Speaking Jewry in Global Perspective: Assimilation, 

Integration, and Community, Building” Bar-Ilan University, June 11—13, 2004 

“Towards a Conceptualization of Jewish memoir,” presented at the Meyerhoff Center Conference on 

“Jewish History and Literature,” University of Maryland, April 25—26, 2004 

“Ukrains’ka politychna dumka pro Holokost: dva napriamky,” (Ukrainian Political Thought on the Holocaust: 

Two Tendencies), presented at the International Tekuma Center Conference “The Holocaust in 

Ukraine,” Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine, October, 26—29, 2003 

“The Jewish Cantonists: Beyond the Lachrymose Legend: 1827—1871,” presented at the Fourteenth World 

Conference on Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August, 2002 

“Between Two Worlds: An-sky and the Russian-Jewish Culture,” presented at the International Conference of 

Judaic and Slavic Department of Stanford University, Stanford, March, 2001 

“’The Guardians of Faith,’ or Jewish Traditional Societies in the Russian Army: the Case of the 35 th 

Briansk Regiment,” presented at the conference on Military and Society in Russia, 1500—1917, 

Harvard University, October, 2000 

“The Revival of Judaic Studies in Post-Communist Ukraine,” presented at “Jews in the Post-Communist 

East Europe,” Davis Center for Russian Studies International Conference, Harvard University, 1999 

“Hasidism and havurot,” presented at the Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston, 


December, 1997 

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“The Dybbuk in the Context of Ansky’s 1911—1913 Expedition,” presented at Harvard University 

Graduate Student Conference, “Modern Jewish History, Thought, and Literature,” April 6—7, 1997 

“Russian Legislation and Jewish Self-Government: the Case of Kamenets-Podol’skii,” presented at 

the 28 th Annual Conference of the Association of Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Boston, 

December, 1996 

INVITED LECTURES 

“Stanovlennia ukrains’ko-ievreis’koi literatury,” guest presentation at the Department of Philology and 

Journalism, Ivan Ohienko University in Kamianets’-Podil’sk, September 26, 2008 

Scholar-in-residence (three presentations), Beth Israel Congregation, Skokie, Il, March 14-15, 2008 

“Marranos in Early Modern Spain, 16-17 th centuries” and “Franz Kafka and Kabbalah,” two invited lectures, 

July 16, 2007, Mendeleevo Summer School, SEFER Center for Judaica Teaching, Moscow, Russia 

Congregation Beth Israel (Skokie, Il), Presentation on Benedict Spinoza: comments of Rebbeca Gladstein’s 

book Betraying Spinoza, January 20, 2007 

Scholar in Residence (three presentations), Egalitarian Congregation of West Rogers Park, February 11-12, 

2006, Chicago, Il 

“The Jewish Immigration Experience: Why, when, and how did your ancestors come to America?” 

Congregation Or Torah, Skokie, Il, December 4, 2005 

“Archival Challenges to Jewish Historical Memory,” guest presentation at Spertus College, Chicago, Il, August 

7, 2005 

“Jews in Ukraine: Now and Then,” presentation at Evanston Public Library sponsored by the YIVO Institute, 

Chicago Branch, June 15, 2005 

“Drafted into Modernity: Jews in the Russian Army, 1827—1914,” lecture at the Davis Center for Russian and 

Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 14, 2004 

“The Construction of the Ukrainian-Jewish Identity: the Case of Hryt’sko Kernerenko,” lecture at the 

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 13, 2004 

“Jews, Ukraine, and National Bolshevism: the case of Ivan Kulyk,” lecture at the Near Eastern and Judaic 

Studies Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, October 12, 2004 

“The 18 th century Practical Kabbalah: Hillel Ba’al Shem and his Sefer ha-Heshek,” lecture at The Hassidic Text 

Institute, Hebrew College, Newton, MA, October 13, 2004 

“The Making of a Russian Jew: Literary Images of the Jewish Soldiers, 1860s—1920s,” lecture at the Ecole des 

Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, June 22, 2003 

“The Laughter of Gabriel García Márquez,” lecture at Spanish Language and Literature Department, Florida 

Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fl, October, 2002 

“Observations on Jews in Modern Ukraine,” presentation at the Meeting of the Representatives of the 

Ukrainian 

and Jewish Organizations, Union League, Philadelphia, December 5, 1999 

“Ukrainian Jews and Ukrainian Independence,” Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA, May 4, 1998 

“Jewish Sites of Ukraine, slide presentation,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, December, 1995 

“Ansky and Harkavy Archive in Kiev,” Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, February 6, 1995

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OUTREACH 


“Jews in Contemporary Ukraine,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, December 6, 1994 

“Hope Dies Last: Ukrainian Jews and Ukrainian Independence, 1991-1994,” Toronto, Center for Russian and 

East European Studies, University of Toronto, November 24, 1994 

“Rediscovered Jewish Literary Treasures in Kiev,” Montreal, Department of Jewish Studies at McGill 

University, November 23, 1994 

“Newly Discovered Jewish Materials in the Archives of the Vernadsky Library of the Academy of Sciences of 

Ukraine, Kiev,” Harvard, Centre for European Studies, Harvard University, November 21, 1994 

“Newly Discovered Pinkasim in Kiev,” the YIVO Institute, New York, November 29, 1993 

“The Kiev Genizah: Collection of Jewish Manuscripts and Historical Documents of the Vernadsky Library, 

Kiev,” New York, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, November 22, 1993 

“A New Judeo-Hellenic Mythology in Thomas Mann’s Joseph and his Brothers,” Toronto, Department of Near 

Eastern Studies, University of Toronto, November 17, 1993 

“Jewish Languages in a Slavic Milieu,” Toronto, The Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, 

University of Toronto, November 12, 1993 

“A Dialogue of Cultures in Joyce's Ulysses: Celts and Jews,” Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion, 

University of Toronto November 11, 1993 

“The Hebrew Department of the Vernadsky Library in Kiev: Hebrew and Yiddish Books and Manuscripts 

from the Firkovich, Harkavy and Ansky Collections,” Jerusalem, Hebrew University, Jewish National 

and University Library, August 15, 1993 

Spertus College, Chicago: The Making of Hanukah, four public presentations, December, 2008 

Spertus College, Chicago: Kafka and Kabbalah, five public presentations, February—March, 2008 

Spertus College: a mini-course in “Confrontations: Judaism and Other Cultures,” February—March, 2008, for 

Masters Program in Jewish Education 

Temple Jeremiah, Introduction to Jewish Liturgy, series of presentations, Winter, 2007 

Congregation Beth Emet (Evanston, Il): series of presentations on the East European Shtetl, 2006—2007 

Congregation Hakafah (Glencoe, Il): on-going series of presentations on Spanish Jews, 2006—2007 

Congregation Beth Emet (Evanston, Il): series of presentations on Medieval Spanish Jewry, 2005—2006 

Congregation Or Torah (Skokie, Il): on-going presentations on the Book of Esther, Winter, 2006 

Congregation Temple Jeremiah (Northfield, Il): on-going presentations on the History of Hanukah, Fall, 2005 

Congregation Hakafah (Glencoe, Il): on-going series of presentations on the Jewish Ethics, 2005—2006 

Congregation Hakafah (Glencoe, Il): Presentation “The Budapest Jewish Community: a history,” June 7, 2005 

Temple Jeremiah (Northbrook, Il): series of presentations on the Book of Job, March—April, 2005 

Temple Beth Israel (Skokie, Il): series of presentations on the Making of the Shtetl, February-March, 2005 

Central Avenue Synagogue (Highland Park, Il): Presentation on the Jewish Shtetls, Hasidic Masters, and Polish 

Magnates, February 12, 2005 

Congregation Hakafah (Glencoe, Il): on-going series of eight presentations on the Book of Ruth,


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February—April, 2004, and four presentations on the Book of Esther, December, 2004—January 2005 

Chicago Down Schumann Institute of Jewish Education, Jewish Young Leadership seminar: Presentation on 

Sukkot (Holiday of Booths) and Environment, October 12, 2004 

Ner Tamid Ezra ha-Bonim Synagogue Men’s Club: Presentation on the Shtetl in History and Memory, 

Chicago, March 14, 2004 

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston: Presentation “Jewish Migrations within and out of 

Russian Empire, 1850—1914,” August 20, 2003, Wellesley, MA 

SHOW BUSINESS AND MASS MEDIA 

Appearance on Extention 720 with Melt Rosenberg at WGN Radio: discussion of Matt Goldish’s The 

Sabbatean 

Prophets (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), March 25, 2004 at 

http://wgnradio.com/shows/ex720/list200403.htm 

Appearance on Associated Press Radio with a commentary on the elections fraud in Ukraine, 

November 23, 2004, http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/1864333p-9772217c.html 

Appearance on Chicago Public Radio “Worldview” with a commentary on fraudulent elections in Ukraine 

And tensions between the European Union, and Russia; November 24, 2004, available at 

http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/wv_ranov04.asp 

Appearance on the WBUR “Here and Now” program with a commentary on mass protests and demonstrations 

in Ukraine, November 26, 2004. 

Interview to The Chicago Tribune on the situation in Ukraine, November 26, 2004 

Appearance on the NPR “On Point” with Eric Weiner, November 29, 2004, available at 

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2004/11/20041129_a_main.asp 

Appearance on Chicago Public Radio “Worldview” with a commentary on revolution in Ukraine, November 

30, 

2004, available at http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/wv_ranov04.asp 

Commentary on Ukrainian elections for Northwestern University Newsfeed, available at 

http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/broadcast/2004/12/yohanan.html 

Appearance on the NPR “The Conversation” with Ross Reynolds commenting on the preliminary results of the 

“Orange” revolution in Ukraine, December 8, 2004, available at 

http://www.kuow.org/theconversation.asp?Archive=12-08 

Interview to the Yiddish Forward: “Revolutsie in Ukraina; gut far di yidn?” (Revolution in Ukraine: Good for 

the Jews?), Forverts, vol. CV, no. 31,527 (Dec. 10, 2004), available at http://yiddish.forward.com/ 

Editorial “Ukraine: A Rebellion Turns to Rule of Law,” Chicago Tribune (Sunday Dec. 12, 2004), pp. 1 and 4 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0412120019dec12,1,37886.storyR(e)volution 

reprinted: “THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT: An International Newsletter,” no. 263 (2004) 

Appearance on Chicago Public Radio “Worldview” with a commentary on the result of the run-off elections in 

Ukraine, December 27, 2004, available at http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/wv_radec04.asp#27 

Appearance on the TV show Chicago Tonight (WTTW) with Elisabeth Brackett with a commentary 

on the results of the victory of the opposition leader in Ukraine (December 27, 2004) 

Appearance on Associated Press Radio with a commentary on the resignation of the Ukrainian 

Prime-minister Viktor Yanukovych, Dec., 31, 2004, available at 

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/89-12312004-425261.htmland 

and http://www.adn.com/24hours/front/story/1963105p-9969406c.htmland

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“A perceptive analysis of the events of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine by Prof. Y. Petrovsky-Shtern 

of Northwestern University, USA,” publication in Welcome to Ukraine, no. 1 (2005), 22—24, 

available at http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/index2.php?param=pgs20051/22 

reprinted: THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT: An International Newsletter,” no. 465 (April 19, 

2005) 

“Anniversary of the Orange Revolution,” Interview with Jerome McDonnell for Chicago Public Radio, 

Worldview, Friday, December 2, 2005, available at: 

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/wv_radec05.asp#02 

“Ukraine—Legislative Elections,” interview with Jerome McDonnel for Chicago Public Radio, Worldview, 

Friday, March 24, 2006, available at: 

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/wv_ramar06.asp 

Interview to the Yiddish Forward (Forverts) and publication of an excerpt from the forthcoming book on 

Ukrainian—Jewish rapprochement: “Dos pintele yid: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern” and “Yisroel 

Kulik—Ivan Kulik—Vasyl Rolenko,” September 29, 2006/Tishri 7, 5767 

Commentary on Radio Freedom/Free Europe on the 1919 Jewish pogroms in Russia (Dokumenty proshlogo 

Program), November 25, 2006, available at: 

http://www.svobodanews.ru/Transcript/2006/11/25/20061125230322257.html 

Commentary on Radio Freedom Free Europe (Raznitsa vo vremeni Program) on the book by Joshua 

Rubenstein and Vladimir Naumov Stalin’s Secret Pogrom (2006), January 29, 2007, available at 


Commentary on Radio Freedom Free Europe (Raznitsa vo vremeni program) on the book by Marina Sidorova 

ed., Rossiia pod nadzorom: otchety III otdeleniia, 1827-1869 (2006), March 31, 2007 available at 


Commentary on Radio Freedom Free Europe (Dokumenty proshlogo program) on Alexander III’s 

marginal notes on the Humble petition of Baron Guentsburg, July 29, 2007 available at 


1957 

Commentary on Radio Freedom Free Europe (Raznitsa vo vremeni program) on Gabriel Garcia Marques’s 

visit to the USSR and his reflections on Stalin and dictatorship, available at: 



Appearance on Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History with Geoffrey Baer and Dan Protess with commentaries 

on Slavic contexts of the traditional Jewish food, WTTW, Channel 11, November 27, 2007 

Commentary on Radio Freedom Free Europe on the denunciations by Moshko Blank, Lenin’s greatgrandfather, 

“Skorost stuka. Donosy. Zhaloby Predka lenina,” November 22, 2008, available at 


Commentary on Radio Freedom Free Europe on the scandalous relations of Starokonstantinov local 

administration and Jews in the 1860s, “Skorost stuka. Donosy. Starokonstantinovskaia idilliia v vek 

Veklikikh reform,” November 1, 2008, available at: 


ON-CAMPUS SERVICE 

Central and East European History and Culture Faculty Reading Group, organizer, 2006/2007 

History Department Undergraduate students Fellowship committee, member, 2006, 2007 

Humanities Residential College, fellow, 2005, 2007, 2008 

Political Science and Spanish Departments Search Committee, adviser, 2006 

Post-doc in Israeli Studies Search Committee, member, 2006, 2007, 2008

History Department Colloquia, head, 2005/06 

Liebmann Fellowship Selection Committee, member, 2006 

Fulbright Fellowship Selection Committee, member, 2005/06, 2006/07 

Search Committee on Jewish Religion, member, 2005/06 

Fellow of the Humanities Residential College, 2005/06/07 

Search Committee on Jewish Literature and/or Philosophy, member, 2004/05 

History Department Graduate School Committee, member, 2004-present 

History Department Major/Minor Committee Adviser, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2009 

Jewish Studies Committee, member, 2004/06, 2007/08, 2008/09 

Religion Department Search Committee, adviser, February, 2005 

Slavic Department Search Committee, adviser, February, 2005 

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PRESENTATIONS ON CAMPUS 


Presentation at Jewish Baccalaureate Graduation, June 15, 2007 

Mediator at Alan Dershowitz’s presentation, Hillel Foundation, May 10, 2007 

Mediator at Ra’anan Gissin’s presentation, Hillel Foundation, April, 2007 

Presentation on Jews’ Encounter with Communism, 1920-1930: new approaches, CICS, February 23, 2007 

Presentation on Judaic New Year, Hillel Foundation, September, 2006 

Presentation on the Homiletics of Passover Liturgy, Hillel Foundation, April 2, 2006 

Presentation at Frank Safford Political Science Seminar on Ukraine, CICS, May 17, 2005 

Paper on Jews, Cabbages, and Kings: from Shabbat to Redemption, Chabad House, April 8, 2005 

Paper on the Making of a Historian: Confessions, NU Hillel Foundation, April 27, 2004. 

Paper on the Soviet Army Day and Soviet Popular Mentality, NU Hillel Foundation, February 23, 2004. 

Paper on the Genocide in Ukraine, Penal Discussion, NU Norris Center, February 17, 2004. 

ADVISING, EDITORIAL BOARD, AND PEER REVIEWING 

Brill Judeo-Slavic Book Series (since 2007, invited editor), peer-reviewed proposals 

Canadian Slavonic Papers (since 2006, invited) 

The Ukrainian Quarterly: a Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs (since 2004; invited) 

Tkuma International Journal for Holocaust Studies (since 2004; invited) 

Ab Imperio (invited editor, no. 3, 2004), peer-reviewed proposals 

Israeli Academy of Sciences, peer-reviewed proposals 

Princeton University Press, advising and consulting 

Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, advising and consulting 

Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers, advising and consulting 

Allyn & Bacon/Longman Publishers, advising and consulting 

My Jewish Learning: trans-denominational on-line encyclopedia, editor (www.myjewishlearning,com) 

SERVED ON EXAMINATION VCOMMITTEE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS 

Stefka Hadjiandonova 

Erin-Marie Legacey 

Richard Lutjens 

Meghan Pytka 

DISSERTATION READER 

Paul Radensky (Jewish Theological Seminary of America, NY): “Hasidism in the Age of Reform: A Biography 

of Rabbi Duvidl ben Mordkhe Twersky of Tal’noye” 

Joshua Shanes (University of Wisconsin/Madison): “National Regeneration in the Diaspora: Zionism, Politics, 

and Jewish Identity in Late Habsburg Galicia, 1883—1907” 

Arkadii Zeltser (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): “The Jews of North East Belorussia between Two World Wars 

(1917—1941)” 

Vassili Schedrin (Brandeis University): “Jewish Bureaucracy in Late Imperial Russia: A 

Phenomenon of Expert Jews (uchenye evrei), 1850-1917”

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MEMBERSHIP 

LANGUAGES 

Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS) at NU, Evanston, Il 

Association of Jewish Studies (AJS), New York 

World Association for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Israel 

European Association of Jewish Studies (Yarnton, Oxford, UK) 

International Center SEFER for Advanced Jewish Studies, Moscow, Russia 

Midwest Jewish Studies Association (MJSA), Chicago 

Tkuma International Holocaust Center, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 

Native: Russian, Ukrainian 

Fluent: English, Hebrew, Spanish 

Semi-Fluent: Italian, Polish 

Reading knowledge: Yiddish, Aramaic, French, German, Portuguese, Belorussian, Latin 

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 

Chief Janitor, Central Telegraph, Kyiv, 1981—1983 

Janitor, “Red Star” Hotel, Kyiv, 1980—1981 


Anatoly Alexeevich ALEXEEV 

Born 13.12.1941, the town of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol territory, USSR. 

1962-67 undergraduate student at Leningrad State University, Philological Faculty, studied 

Church Slavonic, the history of Russian, Russian Literature, Classical Philology. 

1967-1970, postgraduate student at the Institute of Linguistics (Academy of Sciences of the 

USSR, Leningrad), studying the history of Russian in the 18th century, Russian lexicography 

and lexicology. 

1971-89, junior researcher, then a senior researcher at the Institute of Linguistics in the 

department of Lexicon of the Russian Language of the 18th century. 

1989-2006, leading researcher in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the 

Russian Academy of Sciences, the Department of Old Russian Literature. 

since 2002 professor of St. Petersburg State University, the Chair of Bible Studies. 

1973, awarded the candidate's degree for a thesis "The Social Terminology of Russian in the 

18th century". 1984, awarded the doctor's degree for a thesis "The Song of Songs in Church 

Slavonic". Published about 250 books and articles on the hisrory of Russian, Old Slavonic 

Literature, Bible Studies. 

In 1993-2001 supervisor of scholarly and translating projects at St. Petersburg branch of the 

Russian Bible Society, among them were: The New Testament Slavonic Text Project (The 

Gospel of John was published in 1998, Matthew — in 2005); The Greek-Russian Interlinear 

Translation of the New Testament (published 2001), The Hebrew-Russian Interlinear Translation 

of the Old Testament (not published yet); The Russian Literary Translation of the New 

Testament (together with the late Sergey Averintsev, partly published), and other. 

In 1988 founded Slavonic Bible Commission under the International Committee of Slavists, 

including over 30 members from various countries. The Commission held several conferences, 

among them "Text History of the Slavonic Bible" (Moscow, 1990, St. Danilov Monastery, 

together with the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate), "The Bible in 

the History of East Slavs" (Jerusalem, 1993, together with the Hebrew University). 

In 1997 through cooperation with Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (SNTS) founded 

Bibliotheca biblica at St.Petersburg State University. At present it has about 20.000 vols of 

scholarly publications in the field of Bible Studies, mostly in English and German. In 2002 

Bibliotheca became a base of the University Department of Bible Studies, and Alexeev was 

elected its Professor and Chairman. He gives lectures on Introduction to the Scripture, Textual 

Criticism, Biblical Theology. 

Since the beginning of the 1980s has attended over 100 scholarly conferences on Slavonic and 

Bible studies in Russia and abroad, among them several meetings arranged by the Moscow 

Patriarchate on occasion of the Millennium of the Baptism of Russia (1887-89), The 

International Congresses of Slavists (1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008), The Scholarly Forum of 

The United Bible Societies (1993-99), The Greek Orthodox Society of Biblical Studies (1995, 

1997); The Society of New Testament Studies (annualy beginnig of1995).

As a guest-professor gave lectures on the history of Russian Language and Literature, as well as 

the history of the Slavonic Bible at Amsterdam City University (Spring semester, 1990), The Hebrew 

University of Jerusalem (Spring semester, 1992), the University of Trier, Germany (1992- 

93 academic year), the University of Genoa, Italy (1999, spring). In Russia A. A. leads 

pedagogical activities at the St. Petersburg State University and the St. Petersburg Theological 

Academy, visiting with lectures other philological and theological institutes in St. Petersburg and 

Russia. Since 1986 has been supervising a number of postgraduates in the Academy of Sciences, 

three of them were awarded candidate's degree. Director of Bibliotheca Biblica, located at St. 

Petersburg State University. 

Alexeev is a member of The Patriarchal and Synodal Bible Comission of the Russian Orthodox 

Church (1990), The Inter-Orthodox Society of Biblical Scholars, Greece (1995), The Society of 

New Testament Studies (1997); winner of the Shakhmatov’s Prize for Textual Crticism of the 

Russian Academy of Sciences (2006).

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Curriculum Vitae 

Professor Dan D.Y. Shapira 

Kfar-Eldad / Noqdim, Gush Herodion, Israel 

OR 

Dpt. of Near Eastern History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 

e-mail: shapiradan@yahoo.com 

tel: 972-547-903340 

2003- : Professor for Ottoman Studies, Dpt. of Near Eastern History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 

Israel 

2000-01/03/2006: advisor for academic subjects, editor and reader, Dept of History, Philosophy and Jewish 

Studies, Open University of Israel, Ramat-Aviv 

Autumn 2002: taught Samaritan Studies at the Center for Hebraic and Biblical Studies, St.-Petersbourg 

State University 

Autumn 2001: taught Judeo-Persian Studies at the Asia And Africa Institute, Moscow State University 

1999-2000: post-doctoral studies (Lady Davies / Golda Meir Scholarship) at the Institute for Advanced 

Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (under Prof. Guy G. Stroumsa) and teaching Mandaean religion at 

the Hebrew University 

2000: PhD: Studies in Zoroastrian Exegesis: Zand (in English, two volumes) under supervision of Prof. 

Shaul Shaked, HUJI 

1998-99: researcher at the Ben-Zvi Institute (the Karaite Project) 

Autumn 1999: taught Judeo -Persian Literature and History and Medieval Jewish History at the Asia and 

Africa Institute, Moscow State University 

1998: won Shlomo Pines Prize for Achievement 

1995: won Nathan Rotenstreich scholarship 

1993: M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the thesis in Jewish Language Program, under 

supervision of Prof. Shaul Shaked (an edition of the Judeo-Persian Tafsir of Hosea), was accepted by the 

Faculty of Humanities as one of the five best theses of the year 

1991: B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; majored in Ancient Semitic Languages & Indian, 

Iranian, Armenian and Caucasian Studies 

Language Skills: 

Fluent: Hebrew, English, Russian, German, Persian, Turkish, Azeri, Crimean-Tatar, Uzbek, Arabic 

(including Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi "dialects"), Urdu & Hindi, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Maltese 

Reading only: all Semitic languages, all Slavic Languages, all Romance Languages, all Germanic 

Languages, all Iranian Languages, all Aryan-Indian languages, all Turkic languages, Classical Mongolian, 

Classical Armenian, Classical Georgian, Classical and Modern Greek, T'ang-Period Chinese, Hungarian, 

Elamite, Bahasa Indonesia / Malay, Swahili, some Japanese

ALEXANDER PERESWETOFF-MORATH, D.PH. 

CURRICULUM VITAE 

(per 1 November 2008) 

Born 5 February 1969, Raus parish (Sweden) 

Gymnasium, science programme with additional languages, Nikolaiskolan, Helsingborg, 

Sweden 

Military service, 1992 

Filosofie kandidat (BA) (Russian, French, Polish, Greek, East European Studies), 

Lund University, Sweden (1998) 

Filosofie doktor (D.Ph.), Slavonic Studies (2002), Lund University 

Docent (Reader), Slavonic Studies, Lund University, 2008 

positions and scholarships 

• Postgraduate scholarship 1 July 1994–30 June 1998, Dept. of Slav. Stud., Lund Univ. 

• Amanuensis 1 January 1999–30 June 1999, Lund Univ. 

• Diverse appointments as teacher of Russian; technical editor for the two publication 

series of the department (Slavica Lundensia and Lund Slavonic Monographs), conference 

secretary, 1993–2003, Lund Univ. 

• Post-doctoral scholarship (Einar Hansen Memorial Foundation), 1 July 2002–1 July 

2004 (resigned on 30 September 2003) 

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Slavonic Studies, funded by the Swedish Research 

Council, 1 October 2003–2007, Lund University 

• Visting researcher, Pushkin House, St Petersburg, August–December 2007 

• Academy Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Letters, History & Antiquities, 

Stockholm, 1 January 2008– 

publications 

a. monographs 

1. ‘Whereby we know that it is the last time’: Musings on Anti-Messiahs and Antichrists 

in a Ruthenian Textual Community. Lund 2006, viii + 122 pp. 

2. A Grin without a Cat, 1: Adversus Iudaeos Texts in the Literature of Medieval 

Russia (988–1504) (= Lund Slavonic Monographs 4). Diss. Lund 2002(a), 

xxvi+316 pp. 

3. A Grin without a Cat, 2: Jews and Christians in Medieval Russia – Assessing the 

Sources (= Lund Slavonic Monographs 5). Lund 2002(b), x +166 pp. 

4. Vad profeterna sagt...: En undersökning av ett Tolkovaja azbuka. Lund 1994, 

98 pp. 

b. other scholarly publications

5. »Христианский антииудаизм и иудейско-православные отношения в 

Восточной Славии в Средние века и раннее Новое Время (до 1570 г.)», История 

евреев России, Ч. І. Средние века, отв. ред. А. Кулик, in print, c. 40 pp. 

6. »En rysk diktare i Stormaktstidens Stockholm: vem var författaren till ‘Оплач 

Наровеск’?», Festschrift N.N., in print, c. 25 pp. 

7. »Аграф пророка Ездры: вновь идентифицированный источник Речи 

Философа», Древняя Русь: вопросы медиевистики, Москва 2008, pp. 48–50. 

8. »Леонтий Петрович Белоус» [комментарии], Ингерманландский 

можжевельник. Стихи и песни о нашей Родине, Санкт–Петербург 2008, pp. 33–39. 

9. »›Chantries Where no Clerks Sing›: on the Russianness of the Bayors of Ingria, 

1617–1704», Slavistica Vilnensis 54 (2008, Vilnius) (c. 30 pp.). 

10.»›Адонаи, заблудихомъ!› об образе спорящего жидовина в 

восточнославянской письменности (XIV–XV вв)», Еврейский исторический 

архив 4 (2007, Москва), pp. 51–83. 

11. » ›Simulacra of Hatred›: on the Occasion of an Historiographical Essay by Mr. 

Dennis Eoffe, Ab Imperio 2003:4 (2004; Kazan’), pp. 603–650. 

12. »›Otiosorum hominum receptacula›: Orthodox Religious Houses in Ingria, 

1615–52, Scando-Slavica 49. Copenhagen 2003, pp. 101–125. 

13. » ›Simulacra of Hatred›: on the Occasion of an Historiographical Essay by Mr. 

Dennis Eoffe, Ab Imperio 2003:4. Kazan’ 2003, pp. 603–650. 

14. » ›And was Jerusalem builded here...?›: on the Textual History of the Slavonic 

Jerusalem Disputation», Scando-Slavica 47. Copenhagen 2001, pp. 19–38. 

15. »A Shadow of the Good Spell: on Jews and anti-Judaism in the World and 

Work of Kirill of Turov, Kirill of Turov: Bishop, Preacher, Hymnographer, ed. 

Ingunn Lunde (= Slavica Bergensia 2). Bergen 2000, pp. 33–75. 

16. »Из Ростова в Ингерманландию. М.А. Пересветов и другие русские baijor’ы«, 

Новгородский исторический сборник 7 (17). Санкт-Петербург 1999, pp. 366–378. 

17. »An Alphabetical Hymn by St. Cyril of Turov? — on the Question of Syllabic 

Verse Composition in Early Medieval Russia, Scando-Slavica 44. Copenhagen 

1998, pp. 115–130. 

c. other publications 

18. »Pereswetoff-Morath (Peresvetov)«, Svenska släktkalendern 2000, Stockholm 

2000, pp. 271–5. 

19. » ”Säg mig jude!” : Om judisk-kristna disputationer och andra antijudaistiska 

texter i rysk medeltidslitteratur (988–1600), Svantevit: Dansk tidsskrift for slavistik 

19:2, København & Århus, Denmark 1998, pp. 5–24. 

20. »Old disputes—new research«, Cyrillic Manuscript Heritage 7. Columbus, 

Ohio 2000, p. 5. 

21. »Ryss eller tysk, jude eller grek? Om konfessioner i Ryssland vid tiden för dess 

kristnande«. [To be published in Svantevit: Dansk tidsskrift for slavistik, København 

& Århus, Denmark.] 

22. Several pieces in Russian on Ingrian 17th-century history in Inkeri (Pietarin ja 

Inkerinmaan kuulumisia), 2008. 

– Diverse newspaper articles etc on Russian culture 

f. as editor

23. med Fiona Björling, Words, Deeds and Values. The Intelligentsia in Russia and 

Poland during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Lund 2005, xxviii + 407 pp. 

24. (with Dr. Birgitta Dimitrova Englund), Swedish Contributions to the Thirteenth 

International Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana, 15-21 August 2003 (= Slavica Lundensia 

Supplementa 2). Lund 2003. 179 pp. 

– As assistant editor, another eleven scholarly books at Lund university. 

d. translation 

25. Marshall Poe, »Den ryska krisens medeltida rötter«, Internationella studier 

2001:2, Stockholm, pp. 23–38. 

Committees etc 

Faculty opponent at defence of doctoral dissertation, Slavonic philology (Marina âistjakova 

(Vilniuje saugomu rankra‰tiniu baÏnytiniu slavu sinaksaru tekstologine charakteristika 

(trije rudens menesiu tekstu duomenimis)), Vilnius University (Lithuania), 27 

September 2007). 

On the committee for Ph.D. thesis, Slavonic Studies, Dr. Julia Larsson, Lund University, 

26 March 2004. (On the committee for Ph.D. thesis, Slavonic Studies (Dr. 

Mirja Varpio, Lund University, 27 October 2005), but forced to resign due to illness.) 

On the editorial board of Slavica Bergensia, Bergen University, Norway, 2004–. 

International peer reviewing and councelling on grants. 

Conference secretary, etc. 

– member on programme committee and conference secretary for international conference, 

‘The Intellegentsias of Russia and Poland as Creators of Social Values’, 

Lund 21–25 August 2002. 

Awards for scholarly work 

Hjalmar Gullberg and Greta Tott scholarship 1998 

Einar Nilsson scholarship for excellent doctoral thesis (cf. above) 2002–2003.

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DAN SHAPIRA, Main Publications 

1. "An Aramaic-Irano-Armenian Note", Iran & Caucasus II, Research Papers from the Caucasian 

Centre for Iranian Studies, Yerevan, edited by Garnik Asatrian, Teheran 1998, pp. 92-101 

2. "The Perfect Man in Iranian Traditions", The Perfect Man, ed. Sharif Shukurov, Moscow 1997, pp. 

213-232 [Russian: "Sovershennyj Chelovek v Iranskix Tradicijax", Sovershennyj Chelovek, izdal 

Sharif Shukurov, Moscow] 

3. "Books for Brides", Hadshot ha-Shomronim 1999 (9-11), pp. 733-735 (Hebrew) 

‏"ספרים תמורת כלות:‏ 

גולי שומרון מול יושבי שומרון"‏ חדשות השומרונים ‏(תשנ"ט)‏ 9-11, עמ'‏ 733-735 

4. "Manichaios, Jywndg Gryw and Some Other Manichaean Terms and Titles", Irano-Judaica IV, ed. 

Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer, Jerusalem 1999, pp. 122-150 

5. "Pahlavi References to Armenia", Iran & Caucasus III-IV, Research Papers from the Caucasian 

Centre for Iranian Studies, Yerevan, edited by Garnik Asatrian, Teheran 1999-2000, pp. 143-146 

6. "A Note on the Garni Inscription", Iran & Caucasus III-IV, Research Papers from the Caucasian 

Centre for Iranian Studies, Yerevan, edited by Garnik Asatrian, Teheran 1999-2000, pp. 193-196 

Celestial Race, the Jews", Kabbala: International Journal for the Study of Jewish ‏:אין מזל לישראל"‏ 7. 

Mystical Texts 5 (Los Angeles 2000), p. 111-128 

8. "Zoroastrian Sources on Black People", Arabica XLIX,1 (Paris 2002), pp. 117-122 

9. "Irano-Slavono-Tibetica: Some Notes on Šaxai¡a, Mithra, Lord Gshen-rab, Bon, and a Modern 

Myth", Xristianskij Vostok NS 3(9), (St. Petersbourg & Moscow 2002), pp. 308-317 

10. "Anuš and >Uθrâ Revised: Notes on Aramaic-Iranian Linguistic Interaction and Mystical 

Traditions", Kabbala: International Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, Vol. 6 (2001), p. 

151-182 

11. "Was There Geographical Science in Sasanian Iran?", Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiorum 

Hungaricae, Vol. 54 (2-3), Budapest 2001 ), pp. 319-338 

12. "Biblical Quotations in Pahlavi", Henoch 23 (2001), pp. 187-195 

13. “Qißßa-ye Dâni

ק"‏ 

מ"‏ 

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‏"'קיצהֽ‏ דיניאל',‏ - או 

‏'מעשה דניאל':‏ החיבור ותרגומו",‏ ספונות 22, עמ'‏ 337-366 

14. "A Karaim Poem in Crimean-Tatar from Mangup: a Source for Jewish-Turkish History (Judaeo- 

Turcica III)", Jewish-Turkish Encounters. Studies in Jewish-Turkish Relations Throughout the Ages, 

ed. Mehmet Tütüncü, SOTA, Haarlem 2001, pp. 79-100 

15. G. Akhiezer & D. Shapira, "Karaites in Poland-Lithuania Up to the 18th Century", Pe>amim 89 

(2001), pp. 19-60 [Hebrew] 

19-60 

ראים בליטא ובווהלין-גליציה עד המאה הי"ח",‏ פעמים , 89 

עמ'‏ 

16. "A New Collection of Documents on Karaites in Eastern Europe at the Ben-Zvi Institute", 

Pe>amim 90 (2002), pp. 155-172 [Hebrew] 

‏"אוסף חדש במכון בן-צבי של מסמכים קראיים ממזרח אירופה",‏ פעמים 90, עמ'‏ 155-172 

תשס"ב,‏ 

17. "A Karaite from Wohlynia Meets a Zoroastrian from Baku", Iran& Caucasus V, Research Papers 

from the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies, Yerevan, edited by Garnik Asatrian, Teheran 2001, 

pp. 105-6 

18. "From 'Our Exile' to Sichem: Abraham Firkowicz visits the Samaritans", Cathedra 104 (June 

2002), pp. 85-94 [Hebrew] 

‏'גלותנו לשכם':‏ 

אברהם פירקוביץ אצל השומרונים",‏ קתדרה 104 ‏(‏‎2002‎‏/תשס"ב),‏ עמ'‏ 85-94 

19. "Two Names of the First Khazar Jewish Beg", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 10 (1998-1999), pp. 

231-240 

20. "Bulgar-Khazar Rivalry: Notes on Ethnical Historio-Psychology", Khazarskij Almanakh Vol. I 

(Proceedings of the Third International Khazar Colloquium), Kharkiw (Kharkov) 2002, pp. 214-224 

21. "Some New Data on the Karaites in Wolhynia and Galicia in the 18 th Century", Karaimy Halyča: 

Istoriia ta Kul'tura / The Halych Karaims: History and Culture, ed. I. Jurchenko (L'viv-Halyč 2002), 

pp. 11-23 

22. "Miscellanea Judaeo-Turkica: Four Judeo-Turkic Notes (Judaeo-Turcica IV)", Jerusalem Studies 

in Arabic and Islam 27 (2001-2002), pp. 475-496 

23. Avraham Firkowicz in Istanbul (1830-1832): Paving the Way for Turkic Nationalism, KaraM 

Publishing Co, Ankara 2003 (120 pages, 24 illustrations) 

24. "Judaeo-Armeniaca: On Jewish Lexica in Classical Armenian", Xristianskij Vostok NS IV (10) 

(St. Petersburg 2003) [published 2006], pp. 340-346

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25. “Nynešneje sostojanije pripisok rukopisej Pervoj Kollekcii Firkoviča", Proceedings of the 11th 

International Conference on Jewish Studies, Part 1, Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 [Russian] / “The 

Present State of Some Colophons and Marginalia on the Bible Manuscripts in the First Firkowicz 

Collection", SEFER International Conference, Vol. 1, Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 [Russian] 

26. "Judaeo-Persian Translations of Old Persian Lexica: A Case of Linguistic Discontinuity", Persian 

Origins - Early Judaeo-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian. Collected Papers of the 

Symposium, Goettingen 1999, ed. by L. Paul, Wiesbaden 2003, pp. 221-242 

27. "A New Version of the Karaim Poem in Crimean-Tatar from Mangup ('Pesn' o Mangupe' 1793 

goda: neizvestnyj istochnik po istorii karaimov Kryma)", Vestnik Jevrejskogo Universiteta v Moskve, 

7 (25) (Moscow-Jerusalem 2002), pp. 283-294 [Russian] 

28. "Indeed Ancestral Tombs? – Historical Data and their Modification in the Tombstone Inscriptions 

of Abraham Firkowicz", Pe’amim 98-99 (Winter-Spring 2004), pp. 261-318 

‏"האמנם קברי אבות?‏ נתונים היסטוריים ועיבודם בכתובות המצבות של אברהם פירקוביץ",‏ פעמים (2004 98-99 / 

תשס"ד),‏ עמ'‏ 261-317 

29-31. "Yitshaq Sangari, Sangarit, Bezalel Stern, and Avraham Firkowicz: Notes on Two Forged 

Inscriptions", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 12 (2002-2003), pp. 223-260); a Russian version in: 

Materialy po Arxeologii, Istorii i Etnografii Tavrii 10 (Simferopol' 2003), pp. 535-555; “Jicxak 

Sangari, Sangarit, Becalel' Štern I Avraam Firkovič: istorija dvux poddel'nyx nadpisej / Yitshaq 

Sangari, Sangarit, Bezalel Stern and Avraham Firkowicz: The History of Two Forged Inscriptions", 

Paralleli ‏,הקבלות 2-3 (Moscow 2003); pp. 363-388 [a slightly different Russian version] 

33. "Judaization of Central Asian Traditions as Reflected in the so-called Jewish-Khazar 

Correspondence, with Two Excurses: A. Judah Halevy’s Quotes; B. Eldad Ha-Dani; and With An 

Addendum", Khazars, ed. by V. Petrukhin, W. Moskovich, A. Fedorchuk, A. Kulik, D. Shapira (Jews 

and Slavs, Vol. 16), Gesharim, Jerusalem & Moscow 2005, pp. 503-521 

34. "Bel and the Dragon: A Judaeo-Persion Version of the Biblical Apocrypha", Irano-Judaica V 

(2003), pp. 52-67 

35. "Beginnings of the Karaites of the Crimea Prior to the Early Sixteenth century" (with 

contributions by M. Ezer, A. Fedortchouk, M. Kizilov), A Guide to Karaite Studies: An Introduction 

to the Literary Sources of Medieval and Modern Karaite Judaism, ed. M. Polliack, Leiden Brill 2003, 

pp. 709-728

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36. "The Turkic Languages and Literatures of the Eastern European Karaites", A Guide to Karaite 

Studies: An Introduction to the Literary Sources of Medieval and Modern Karaite Judaism, ed. M. 

Polliack, Leiden Brill 2003, pp. 657-707. 

37. "Avraham Firkowicz in Istanbul", Jewish Texts and Studies 1 (2003), pp. 1-19 [Hebrew] 

‏"אברהם פירקוביץ בקושטא",‏ חדשים גם ישנים א ‏(תשסג)‏ עמ'‏ 22-1 ‏(חלק עברי)‏ 

38. "A Letter of Beta-Israel to Jerusalem", Cathedra 110 (2003), pp. 123-128 (Hebrew) 

‏"איגרת ביתא ישראל לארץ-ישראל מאמצע המאה התשע-עשרה;‏ הנוסח העברי מאוסף פירקוביץ",‏ קתדרה 110 ‏(תשס"ב / 

,(2003 עמ'‏ 123-128 

39. "Judeo-Persian", http://www.jewish-languages.org/judeo-persian.html 

40. "Iazuqaiia, Zoroastrians, Manichaeans, Jews and Other Heretics in Mandaean Texts", Le Muséon 

117:3-4 (2004), pp. 243-280 

41. D. Shapira & D. Vasyutinsky, "New Samaritan Findings in the Ukrainian National Library", 

Hadshot ha-Shomronim 11-15 (2005), pp. 914-915 (Hebrew) 

11-15 ‏(תשס"ה),‏ 

עמ'‏ 

ד'‏ וסיוטינסקי וד'‏ ד"י שפירא,‏ ‏"כתבי היד השומרוניים בספריית ג'‏ ורנאדסקי,‏ קיוב",‏ חדשות השומרונים 

914-915 

42. D. Vasyutinski & D. D.Y. Shapira, "A Newly Found Collection of Samaritan manuscripts in the 

V. Vernadsky Ukrainian National Library in Kiev", Judea and Samaria Research Studies, 15 (Ariel 

2006), pp. 221-226 

דריה וסיוטינסקי ודן ד"י שפירא,‏ ‏"אוסף חדש שנמצא בקייב:‏ הערות לקורות חקר השומרונים במאה ה-‏‎19‎‏",‏ מחקרי יהודה 

ושומרון טו ‏(תשס"ו / 2006), עמ'‏ 226-221 

43ab. "A Jewish Pan-Turkist: Serayah Szapszał's Work Qırım Qaray Türkleri", Acta Orientalia 

Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (58:4) 2005, pp. 349-380 [an earlier version: "A Jewish Pan- 

Turkist: Serayah Szapszal (Şapşaloğlu) and his work Qırım Qaray Türkleri (1928) (Judaeo-Türkica 

XIII)", XIV. Türk Tarihi Kongresi Ankara: 9-13 Eylül 2002, Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler, I. Cilt, 

Ankara 2005, pp. 187-212] 

44. "Pahlavi Flowers", Languages of Iran: Past and Present. Iranian Studies in memoriam David Neil 

MacKenzie, ed. by D. Weber, Wiesbaden 2005, pp. 177-184 

45. "Harut and Marut, Again", Scrinium II (2006), pp. 418-432 

46. “Tendencies and Agenda in Karaite and Karaite-related Studies in Eastern Europe in the 20th 

Century”, Pinkas 1 (Vilnius 2006), pp. 333-355

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47ab. "Irano-Slavica. Notes for Iranian, Slavic, Eastern-European ("Russian"), Germanic, Turkic and 

Khazar Studies", AHMEa 14 (2005), pp. 197-230 [Ukrainian Translation in: Ruthenica VI (Kiev 

2007), pp. 7-36] 

48. "Kak nabljudatel' transformiruet nabljudaemyj objekt: A. Firkovič na Kavkaze v 1840 g. i v 1849- 

1850 gg. i ego vlijanie na gorskix jevreev" ["How an Observer Changes the Observed: Avraham 

Firkowicz in the Caucasus, 1840-41 and 1849-50, and His Impact on the Mountain Jews"], Judaica 

Rossica, IV (Moscow 2006), pp. 8-30 

49. "Armenian and Georgian Sources on the Khazars: A Re-Evaluation", The World of the Khazars: 

New Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium, ed. H. 

Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A. Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 307-352 

50. "Iranian Sources on the Khazars", The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected Papers 

from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium, ed. H. Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A. 

Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 291-306 

51. "'Tabernacle of Vine': Some (Judaizing?) Features in the Old Georgian Vita of St. Nino", 

Scrinium 2 (2006), pp. 273-306. 

52. “Turkic Languages and Literatures of Karaites Up to the Early 20th Century", 

‏"השפות התורכיות של קראי מזרח אירופה וספרויותיהם עד תחילת המאה העשרים",‏ מחקרים בלשונות וספרויות של יהודי 

ספרד והמזרח Jewry) ,(Studies in the Languages and Literatures of Sephardic and Oriental 

בוניס,‏ 

יעקב בן-טולילה ואפרים חזן,‏ ירושלים 2008, עמ'‏ 

בעריכת דוד 

53. "Linguistic Adaptation in the Bible Translations into the Turkic Languages of the Karaites", 

Massoroth 13-14 (2006), ed. S.E. Fassberg & A. Maman, Jerusalem 2006, pp. 253-278 (Hebrew) 

‏"סיגול לשוני בתרגומי התנ"ך ללשונות תורכיות של הקראים",‏ 

מאמאן,‏ עמ'‏ 277-253. 

מסורות יג-יד ‏(תשס"ז / 2006), בעריכת ש'‏ פסברג וא'‏ 

54. "On Avestan Scriptural Sources of Mazdak's Teachings", Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān. International 

Journal for Ancient Iranian Studies 5/1&2 (2005-6), pp. 63-82 

55. Review on :I. Jurčenko, O. Kefeli, N. Jurchenko, O. Berehovsky, Karaimske kladovišče bilja 

Halyča, L'viv & Halich 2000”, Pe'amim 103 (Spring 2005), pp. 147-150 (Hebrew) 

‏"מצבות העליץ':‏ קטלוג של מצבות קראיות ממזרח אירופה",‏ פעמים 103 ‏(תשס"‏ / 2005), עמ'‏ 147-150 

56. "The Social Program of the Turkish Republic for Creating Citizens", by Rifat N. Bali, translated 

from Turkish into Hebrew and with an Afterword by Dan D.Y. Shapira, Pe'amim 107 (Spring 2006), 

pp. 67-104 (Afterword: pp. 96-99).

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רפאת נ'‏ באלי,‏ ‏"התוכנית החברתית של הרפובליקה התורכית ליצירת אזרח למולדת",‏ תרגום עברי מתורכית עם סוף דבר 

ע"י דן ד"י שפירא,‏ פעמים 

107 ‏(אביב תשס"ו),‏ עמ'‏ 67-104 ‏(סוף דבר:‏ עמ'‏ 96-99). 

57. "Stray Notes on Aksum and Himyar", Scrinium 2 (2006), pp. 433-443. 

58. "Remarks on Avraham Firkowicz and the Hebrew Mejelis 'Document'", Acta Orientalia 


59. "Judeo-Tat", EJ Vol. 10, p. 0442 

60. "Beginnings of the Jewish Research on the Mountain Jews", Mountain Jews Between Past and 

Present, ed. by Dan D.Y. Shapira, Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 2008, pp. 62-104 

[Hebrew] (in press) 

‏"ראשית המחקר היהודי על יהודי הקווקאז",‏ היהודים ההרריים בין עבר להווה,‏ בעריכת דן שפירא,‏ מכרז דהאן,‏ אוניברסיטת 

בר-אילן,‏ רמת גן תשס"ט,‏ עמ'‏ 104-62 

61. The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut-Qal>eh (the Crimea). Report of the 

Ben-Zvi Institute Expedition. A Collection of Studies, edited by Dan D.Y. Shapira, Ben-Zvi Institute, 

Jerusalem 2008 [Hebrew; 563 pages] 

מצבות בית העלמין של היהודים הקראים בצ'ופוט-קלעה,‏ קרים,‏ דו"ח משלחת אפיגרפית של מכון בן-צבי - קוסץ מחקרים,‏ 

בעריכת דן ד"י שפירא ‏,מכון בן-צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח של יד יצחק בן-צבי והאוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים,‏ 

ירושלים תשס"ח / 2008 

62. "Khazars and Karaites, Again", Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, (IV/13) (Black Sea Studies in 

memoriam of Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006), 2007, pp. 43-64 

63. "Some Remarks on History of Aramaic-speaking Jews and Christians of the Anatolian-Syrian 

Borderland", Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Diyarbakır / Diyarbakır in the Ottoman Era, ed. by 

Bahaeddin Yediyıldız & Kerstin Tomenendal, Ankara 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 665-675 

64. "Osmanlı Imparatorluğu'nda Karay Matbaası", Toplumsal Tarih 156 (Aralık 2006), pp. 55-59 (a 

Turkish translation) 

65. “The Mejelis 'Document' and Tapani Harviainen: On Scholarship, Firkowicz and Forgeries”, 

Omeljan Pritsak Armağanı / A Tribute to Omeljan Pritsak, ed. by Mehmet Alpargu & Yücel Öztürk, 

Sakarya 2007, pp. 303-393 

66. "Notes on Language Policy in Turkish, Persian and other Oriental Languages in the 

Twentieth Century", European Ideas (in press)

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67. “Persian, and especially Judeo-Persian, in the Medieval Crimea", Irano-Judaica VI, ed. Sh. 

Shaked & A. Netzer, Jerusalem 2008, pp. 253-289 

68. "Some Notes on Jews and Turks", Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, (16) (Black Sea Studies 16 (2008), 

pp. 25-38 

69. Reuven Kipperwasser & Dan D.Y. Shapira, "Irano-Talmudica I: The Three-Legged Ass and 

Ridya in BT Ta'anith: Some Observations About Mythic Hydrology in the Babylonian Talmud and in 

Ancient Iran ", AJS Review 32:1 (2008), pp. 101-116 

70. "Iconoclasts and Khazars, a Note", Scrinium 4: Patrologia Pacifica. Selected papers presented to 

the Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society 3rd Annual Conference (Nagoya , Japan , September 29 – 

October 1, 2006) and other patristic studies, ed. by V. Baranov & B. Lourié ( St. Petersburg , 2008), 

pp. 341-347 

71. "Some Notes on the History of the Crimean Jewry from the Ancient Times Until the End of the 

19 th Century, With Emphasis on the Qrımçaq Jews in the First Half of the 19th Century", Jews and 

Slavs 19 (2007), ed. by W. Moskovich and L. Finberg, Jerusalem–Kyiv: Hebrew University; 

[Ukrainian] Institute of Jewish Studies, 2007, pp. 65-92 

72. "Notes on Early Jewish History in Eastern and Central Europe: The Rus', Khazar and Bulgar 

Dimensions", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 15 (2006/7), pp. 125-157 

73. "Gleanings on Jews of Greater Iran under the Sasanians According to the Oldest Armenian and 

Georgian Texts", Iran & the Caucasus 12/2 (December / January 2008-9), pp. ?? 

74. A. Libin & D.D.Y. Shapira, "Stalin and the Khazars", Paralleli / ‏,הקבלות Moscow 2008, pp. ?? 

[Russian] 

75. "Notes on Alans, Khazars and Other Nomads", Proceedings of the Sarmato-Alanian Colloquy, 

Barcelona 2008, pp. ?? 

76-77. "Jewish Diaspora in the Crimea Up to Pre-Modern Times" & "Khazar Diaspora", 

Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture, ed. by Ehrlich, M.A., 

Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 

78-81. "Jevrei v Severnom Pričernomorje ot Drevnosti do rannego Srednevekovja", Istorija Jevrejev 


"Jevrei v ranneje Srednevekovje v sosednix s Rossijej stranax", Istorija Jevrejev Rossii, Moscow & 

Jerusalem: Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 42-72

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"Obščhiny jevrejev Vostoka na territorii Rossijckoj Imperii i Byvšego SSSR", Istorija Jevrejev 


"Xazarskoje nasledije v Vostočnoj Jevrope", Istorija Jevrejev Rossii, Moscow & Jerusalem: 

Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 158-178 

82. "Sweat and Sleep. Notes on Pahlavi Intertextuality", Nāme-ye Irān-e Bāstān. International 

Journal for Ancient Iranian Studies (2008), pp. 

83. "Karaite Printing in the Ottoman Empire", Printing and Publishing in the Middle East. Papers 

from the Second Symposium on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and 

Countries of the Middle East, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris 2-4 November 2005, ed. by 

Philip Sadgrove, Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 24, Oxford UP 2008, pp. 1-12 

84. "On Kings and on the Last Days in Seventh Century Iraq : Mandaean Text and its Parallels. 

Mandaean History and Eschatology", ARAM 

FORTHCOMING: 

76 ‏"שקיעין מתפסיר להושע המיוחס רס"ג בתפסיר יהודי-פרסי?",‏ בין עבר לערב ה (2009), בעריכת יוסף טובי,‏ עמ'‏ ?? 

72. (as editor): Karaites in Eastern Europe in the Last Generations. Proceedings of the Jerusalem 

Karaite Colloquium, Ben-Zvi Institute and the Center for the Study of Polish Jewry and its Culture, 

Jerusalem 2009 

הקראים במזרח אירופה בדורות האחרונים.‏ דברי הכנס הקראי בירושלים,‏ מכון בן-צבי והמרכז לחקר יהדות פולין 

ותרבותה,‏ 2009 

73. “Polish Sarmatism, Turkism, and ‘Jewish szlachta’: Some Reflections on a Cultural Context of the 

Polish-Lithuanian Karaites”, Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, 

74. Karaites in Eastern Europe in the Last Generations. Proceedings of the Jerusalem Karaite 

Colloquium, Ben-Zvi Institute and the Center for the Study of Polish Jewry and its Culture, ed. 

D.D.Y. Shapira et. al., Jerusalem 2009 

75. M. Kizilov, D. D-Y Shapira, D. Vasyutinski, "Karaite Dedication Inscriptions from Gözleve / 

Eupatoria, the Crimea", Karaites in Eastern Europe in the Last Generations. Proceedings of the 

Jerusalem Karaite Colloquium, Ben-Zvi Institute and the Center for the Study of Polish Jewry and its 

Culture, ed. by D. D.Y. Shapira, Jerusalem 2007 (56 pages)

9 

ד'‏ ואסיוטינסקי,‏ מ'‏ קיזילוב,‏ ד'‏ ד"י שפירא,‏ ‏"כתובות ההקדשה במתחם בתי הכנסת הקראיים בגוזלווא,‏ קרים",‏ הקראים 

במזרח אירופה בדורות האחרונים.‏ דברי הכנס הקראי בירושלים,‏ מכון בן-צבי והמרכז לחקר יהדות פולין ותרבותה,‏ 

2009 

‏"הסתגלותה של קהילה יהודית עות'מאנית למציאות אימפריאלית:‏ קראֵי קרים ורבניה בסוף המאה השמונה עשרה 

ובתחילת המאה התשע עשרה",‏ ‏'איגוד:‏ מבחר מאמרים במדעי היהדות',‏ תולדות עם ישראל והחברה היהודית בת זמננו,‏ 2008, 

עמ'‏ ?? 

Iggud - Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, Vol. 2: History of the Jewish People and Contemporary 

Jewish Society 

.76 

77. “Irano-Arabica: Popular Etymology and contamination. Notes on the Arabic and Persian 

Lexicons, with References to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkish”, I. Kratschkowski Memorial Volume, ed. 

by S. Frantzousoff, Sankt-Peterburg 2009 (forthcoming) 

78. “Mandaean and quasi-Mandaean Prototypes of some expressions in the Greek Cologne Mani 

Codex: Stray Aramaicist's Notes", Ravenna Iranologist Congress, Roma, pp. 457-465 

79. “Jews in Southern Russia since Antiquity Till the Early Middle Ages”, & "Jews in the Eraly 

Medieval Period in Lands Adjacent to Russia" & "Oriental Jewish Communities in the territories on 

the Russian Empire and the Former SSSR", & “Khazar Legacy in Eastern Europe”, History of the 

Jews in Eastern Europe / Russia, Zalman Shazzar Centre (Hebrew) 

80-81. "Kazars", "Crimean-Tatar", Encyclopaedia Iranica, ed. Ehsan Yarshater 

82. "The Myth of the Jewish Origin of Pushtun Tribes", Pe'amim [Hebrew; forthcoming] 

המיתוס על המוצא הישראלי של השבטים הפושטוניים",‏ פעמים,‏ 

83. ‏"כתובות מארץ ישראל העות'מאנית",‏ ירושלים וארץ ישראל (2008), עמ'‏ 164-161 

84-93. "Khwajah Bukhara'i", "Firkovitch, Avraham", "Daniyal-Namah", "Qissa-yi Daniel", 

"Armenia", "Arakel of Tabriz", "Mountain Jews", "Krymchaks", "Halevy, Joseph", Encyclopedia of 

Jews in the Islamic World, Leiden: Brill 2008 

94. "Persian Language among the Ottoman Jewry in the 19th Century Jerusalem", Jews of Iran, 

Ramat Gan 

‏"יהודים איראניים בירושלים העות'מאנית והלשונות התורכיות שבפיהם",‏ יהודי איראן,‏ מרכז דהאן,‏ אניברסיטת בר-אילן,‏ 

רמת גן תשס"ח;‏

10 

1839 

‏"לבירור טיבם של כתבי היד שמצא אברהם פירקוביץ 

‏'בדרישתו הראשונה'‏ 

בסתיו שנת 

ואחריה,‏ 

ולשאלת 

.95 

התהוותו של אוסף פירקוביץ הראשון",‏ פעמים 

96. "The Coming of Wahrām: Iranian Political Messianism from the Chinese Borderland", Bucarest 

Volume 

97. "Historical-Cultural Background of the Integration of the Dönme in the Ottoman and Republican 

Turkish elites", Bar-Ilan University Papers on Ottoman Jewry, Ramat-Gan (Hebrew) 

‏"הערות על השתלבותם של בני הכת דוֹֹנְמֵה (Dönme) 

העות'מאנית לראשית העידן הרפובליקני",‏ ‏(בקרוב)‏ 

בקרב האליטות החדשות של טורקיה משלהי תקופת האימפריה

ANDREI A. ORLOV 

Assistant Professor of Theology 

Department of Theology 

209 Coughlin Hall 

414-288-6802 

andrei.orlov@marquette.edu 

Special Fields 

Biblical Theology – Christian Origins, Intertestamental Literature, Old Testament 

Pseudepigrapha, Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism and Mysticism 

Education 

Marquette University, Department of Theology, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Ph.D. in Religious Studies, 2003 

Dissertation: “From Patriarch to the Youth: The Metatron Tradition in 2 

Enoch” 

Advisor: Deirdre A. Dempsey 

Abilene Christian University, College of Biblical Studies, Abilene, Texas 

Master of Divinity, 1997 

M.A. in New Testament Studies, 1995 

Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia 

Ph.D. in Sociology, 1990 

Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 

Equivalent of MA in Journalism, 1986 magna cum laude 

Academic Experience 

Assistant Professor of Theology, Marquette University 2004- 

Teaching Fellow, Marquette University 2003-2004 

John P. Raynor, S.J. Fellow, Marquette University 2002-2003 

Teaching Assistant, Marquette University 1998-2002 

Adjunct Professor, Abilene Christian University 1993-1997 

Research Assistant to the Dean, Abilene Christian University 1991-1997 

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Cultural Research, Moscow 1990-1991

Andrei Orlov - CV 

Publications: 

During Tenure Track (2004-2008): 

Books: 

From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha 

(Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 114; Leiden: Brill, 2007), 

xii+481. ISBN 90-04-15439-6. 

Reviews in Journal of Jewish Studies 59 (2008) 140-143 [Michael Stone]; Journal for the Study of Judaism 

39 (2008) 129-130 [Kevin Sullivan]; Journal of Theological Studies 59 (2008) [Christopher Rowland]. 

The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 107; Tübingen: 

Mohr/Siebeck, 2005), xii+383. ISBN 3-16-148544-0. 

Reviews in Internationale Zeitschriftenschau 51 (2004/05) 1402; New Testament Abstracts 50 (2006) 

1.219; Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses 86 (2006) 406-407 [Ch. Grappe]; Zion 71 (2006) 

404; Salesianum 68 (2006) 596-597 [Rafael Vicent]; The Studia Philonica Annual 18 (2006) [Michael 

Stone]; The Expository Times 117 (2006) 344 [Kevin Sullivan]; Vigiliae Christianae 60 (2006) 247-248 

[Johannes van Oort]; Neotestamentica 40 (2006) 213-215 [Jonathan A. Draper]; Scrinium 2 (2006) 370- 

406 [Basil Lourié]; Nederlands Theologisch Tijdschrift 61 (2007) 69-70 [Pieter van der Horst]; Journal for 

the Study of the Old Testament 30 (2006) 183-184 [Lester Grabbe]; Journal of Biblical Literature 125.3 

(2006) 587-592 [James E. Harding]; Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6 (2006) [Eva Mroczek]; Recherches 

de Science Religieuse 95.4 (2007) 597-598 [Katell Berthelot]. 

Books Edited: 

The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism (Scrinium III; 

eds. B. Lourié and A. Orlov; St. Petersburg: Byzantinorossica, 2007), xl+499. ISBN 

5-88483-059-9. 

Articles in Edited Volumes: 

“In the Mirror of the Divine Face: The Enochic Features of the Exagoge of 

Ezekiel the Tragedian,” The Giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai (eds. G. Brooks, H. 

Najman, L. Stuckenbruck; Themes in Biblical Narrative; Leiden: Brill, 2008) 183-199. 

“И Глас Бысть: Традиции Имени Божиего в ‘Апокалипсисе Авраама’” 

Волшебная Гора (XV; ed. A. Medvedev; Moscow, 2008) 104-124. 

“Roles and Titles of the Seventh Antediluvian Hero in the Book of the Similitudes: A 

Departure from the Traditional Pattern?” Enoch and the Messiah Son of Man: 

Revisiting the Book of Parables (ed. G. Boccaccini; Crand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007) 

110-136. 

“The Heirs of the Enochic Lore: ‘Men of Faith’ in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer Hekhalot 

48D:10,” The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism 

(Scrinium III; eds. B. Lourié and A. Orlov; St. Petersburg: Byzantinorossica, 2007) 

451-463. 

"Resurrection of Adam's Body: The Redeeming Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 

(Slavonic) Enoch," The Theophaneia School: Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian 

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Mysticism (Scrinium III; eds. B. Lourié and A. Orlov; St. Petersburg: 

Byzantinorossica, 2007) 385-389. 

“’The Learned Savant Who Guards the Secrets of the Great Gods’: Evolution of the 

Roles and Titles of the Seventh Antediluvian Hero in Mesopotamian and Enochic 

Traditions: Part II: Enochic Traditions,” Scrinium II. Universum Hagiographicum. 

Mémorial R.P. Michel van Esbroeck, S.J. (1934-2003) (ed. B. Lourié; St. 

Pétersbourg, 2006) 165-213. 

"Лицо как небесный двойник мистика в славянской 'Лествице Иакова,'" 

Волшебная Гора (XIII; ed. A. Medvedev; Moscow, 2006) 56-77. 

"God's Face in the Enochic Tradition," Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and 

Christian Mysticism (ed. A. D. DeConick; Symposium Series, 11; Atlanta: 

SBL/Leiden: Brill, 2006) 179-193. 

“’The Learned Savant Who Guards the Secrets of the Great Gods’: Evolution of the 

Roles and Titles of the Seventh Antediluvian Hero in Mesopotamian and Enochic 

Traditions: Part I: Mesopotamian Traditions,” Scrinium I. Varia Aethiopica. In 

Memory of Sevir B. Chernetsov (1943-2005) (eds. D. Nosnitsin et al.; St. 

Petersburg, 2005) 248-264. 

“The Face as the Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of 

Jacob,” in: Of Scribes and Sages: Early Jewish Interpretation and Transmission of 

Scripture (2 vols.; ed. C. A. Evans; Studies in Scripture in Early Judaism and 

Christianity, 9; London: T&T Clark, 2004) 2.59-76. 

Articles in Journals: 

Refereed: “‘The Gods of My Father Terah’: Abraham the Iconoclast and the Polemics 

with the Divine Body Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham,” Journal for the Study 

of the Pseudepigrapha 18.1 (2008) 33-53. 

Refereed: "Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of 

Abraham," Journal of Biblical Literature 127.1 (2008) 53-70. 

Refereed: "The Pillar of the World: The Eschatological Role of the Seventh 

Antediluvian Hero in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch," Henoch 30.1 (2008) 119-135. 

Refereed: "The Heir of Righteousness and the King of Righteousness: The Priestly 

Noachic Polemics in 2 Enoch and the Epistle to the Hebrews," Journal of Theological 

Studies 58 (2007) 45-65. 

Refereed: "Moses' Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the Exagoge of 

Ezekiel the Tragedian," Biblica 88 (2007) 153-173. 

Refereed: "Vested with Adam's Glory: Moses as the Luminous Counterpart of Adam 

in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Macarian Homilies," Christian Orient 4.10 (2006) 

498-513. 

Refereed: "'Without Measure and Without Analogy:' Shiur Qomah Traditions in 2 

(Slavonic) Enoch,” Journal of Jewish Studies 56 (2005) 224-244. 

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Refereed: “Noah’s Younger Brother Revisited: Anti-Noachic Polemics and the Date of 

2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” Henoch 26 (2004) 172-87. 

Refereed: “Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch 

and Merkabah Tradition,” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14 (2004) 3- 

29. 

Book Reviews: 

Invited: Review of Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.) Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light 

on a Forgotten Connection (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005) in: Dead Sea 

Discoveries 14/2 (2007) 257-260. 

Invited: Review of Hindy Najman's Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic 

Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (SJSJ, 77; Leiden: Brill, 2003) in: The Studia 

Philonica Annual 18 (2006) 215-218. 

Invited: Review of Alexander Kulik's Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Toward 

the Original of the Apocalypse of Abraham (Text-Critical Studies, 3; Atlanta: Society 

of Biblical Literature, 2004) in: Review of Biblical Literature, May, 2005. 

Prior to Tenure Track (before 2004): 


"Ex 33 on God's Face: A Lesson from the Enochic Tradition," Society of Biblical 

Literature Seminar Papers 39 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 130-147. 


Refereed: "The Flooded Arboretums: The Garden Traditions in the Slavonic Version 

of 3 Baruch and in the Book of Giants," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 65 (2003) 184- 

201. 

Refereed: "On the Polemical Nature of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch: A Reply to C. Bottrich," 

Journal for the Study of Judaism 34 (2003) 274-303. 

Refereed: "Overshadowed by Enoch's Greatness: 'Two Tablets' Traditions from the 

Book of Giants to Palaea Historica," Journal for the Study of Judaism 32 (2001) 137- 

158. 

Refereed: "'Many Lamps Are Lightened from the One': Paradigms of the 

Transformational Vision in Macarian Homilies," [with A. Golitzin] Vigiliae Christianae 

55 (2001) 281-298. 

Refereed: "Melchizedek Legend of 2 (Slavonic) Enoch," Journal for the Study of 

Judaism 31 (2000) 23-38. 

Refereed: "Secrets of Creation in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch," Henoch 22.1 (2000) 45-62. 

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Refereed: "The Origin of the Name 'Metatron' and the Text of 2 (Slavonic Apocalypse 

of) Enoch," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21 (2000) 19-26. 

Refereed: "'Noah's Younger Brother': Anti-Noachic Polemics in 2 Enoch," Henoch 

22.2 (2000) 259-73. 

Refereed: "Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch," Journal for the Study of the 

Pseudepigrapha 18 (1998) 71-86. 

In Press: 

Books Edited: 

L'Église des deux Alliances. Mémorial Annie Jaubert (1912--1980) (eds. B. Lourié, A. 

Orlov, M. Petit; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2008), xl+250. ISBN 978-1-59333-083- 

5. (forthcoming). 


"Moses' Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the Exagoge of Ezekiel the 

Tragedian," Enoch and the Mosaic Torah: The Evidence of Jubilees (ed. G. 

Boccaccini; Crand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008) (forthcoming). 

“The Slavonic Old Testament Apocrypha: Texts, Editions, and Translations,” Old 

Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition: Continuity and Diversity (Eds. L. 

DiTommaso and Christfried Böttrich. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum/Texts 

and Studies in Ancient Judaism; Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2008) [with Lorenzo 

DiTommaso] (forthcoming). 

“The Vessels of Light: The Luminous Aeon Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” 

In Memory of Sergei Averincev (eds. L. Borodai et al.; Moscow, 2008) (forthcoming). 


Refereed: "The Pteromorphic Angelology of the Apocalypse of Abraham," Catholic 

Biblical Quarterly (2008) (forthcoming). 

Refereed: “The Fallen Trees: Arboreal Metaphors and Polemics with the Divine Body 

Traditions in the Apocalypse of Abraham,” Harvard Theological Review (2008) 

(forthcoming). 

Refereed: “The Watchers of Satanail: The Fallen Angels Traditions in 2 (Slavonic) 

Enoch,” Journal for the Study of Judaism (2008) (forthcoming). 

Articles in Dictionaries: 

Invited: "Enoch," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. Collins and D. Harlow; 

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008) (forthcoming). 

Invited: "Melchizedek," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. Collins and D. 

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Invited: "Metatron," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. Collins and D. 


Invited: "Slavonic Pseudepigrapha," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. 

Collins and D. Harlow; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008) (forthcoming). 

Invited: "2 Enoch," The Dictionary of Early Judaism (eds. J. J. Collins and D. Harlow; 

Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008) (forthcoming). 

In Progress: 

Book-length Project: 

Monograph: The Visions of Abraham and their Significance for New Testament 

Theology. 


Monograph: The Angels of the Most High. 


Commentary on the Book of Hebrews and the Book of Revelation for New Testament 

Mysticism Project Commentary 


Commentary on 2 Enoch for the Hermeneia Series. 


Edited Volume: Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch. 

Professional Papers and Participation at Professional Meetings 

During Tenure Track: 

Paper: "Enoch and the Anthropos: Restoration of the Glory of Adam in 2 (Slavonic) 

Enoch," Hellenistic Judaism Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical 

Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 20, 2007. 

Chair and Moderator: “Gospel of John,” The New Testament Mysticism Project 

Seminar, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual 

Meeting, San Diego, November 16, 2007. 

Paper: "Apocalyptic Imagery in the Gospel of John 1:51," New Testament Mysticism 

Project Seminar, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual 

Meeting, San Diego, November 16, 2007. 

Paper: "Praxis of the Voice: The Divine Name Traditions in the Apocalypse of 

Abraham," Trends of Ancient Jewish and Christian Mysticism Seminar, University of 

Dayton, Dayton, November 9, 2007. 

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Paper: "Moses' Heavenly Counterpart in the Book of Jubilees and the Exagoge of 

Ezekiel the Tragedian," The Fourth Enoch Seminar, Monastero di Camaldoli, Italy, 

July 8-12, 2007. 

Paper: "In the Mirror of the Divine Face: The Enochic Features of the Exagoge of 

Ezekiel the Tragedian," International Conference "Giving Torah at Sinai," Durham 

University, Durham, England, July 4-6, 2007. 

Chair and Moderator: "The Pitfalls of Categorization: A Panel Discussion of James R. 

Davila's book The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other?” 

Pseudepigrapha Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature 

Annual Meeting, Washington, November 19, 2006. 

Paper: "Apocalyptic Imagery in the Temptation Narrative (Matthew 4:1-11)," New 

Testament Mysticism Project Seminar, American Academy of Religion/Society of 

Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Washington, November 17, 2006. 

Chair and Moderator: “Gospel of Matthew,” The New Testament Mysticism Project 

Seminar, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual 

Meeting, Washington, November 17, 2006. 

Paper: "The Enoch-Metatron Tradition," The VIIIth Congress of the European 

Association for Jewish Studies, Moscow, Russia, July 23-27, 2006. 

Paper: " "The Heir of Righteousness and the King of Righteousness: The Priestly 

Noachic Polemics in 2 Enoch and the Epistle to the Hebrews," The St. Andrews 

Conference on Hebrews & Theology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, July 18-22, 

2006. 

Paper: “’You See the Extent of My Body’: The Shiur Qomah Tradition in 2 (Slavonic) 

Enoch,” Pseudepigrapha Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical 

Literature Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 20, 2005. 

Chair and Moderator: “Jewish Pseudepigrapha in the Slavonic Tradition,” 


Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 19, 2005. 

Paper: “Roles and Titles of the Seventh Antediluvian Hero in the Book of the 

Similitudes: A Departure from the Traditional Pattern?” The Third Enoch Seminar, 

Monastero di Camaldoli, Italy, June 7, 2005. 

Chair and Moderator: “Gendered Images in Early Jewish and Christian Mystical 

Texts” Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group, American Academy of 

Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 20, 

2004. 

Paper: “The Heirs of the Enochic Lore: ‘Men of Faith’ in 2 Enoch 35:2 and Sefer 

Hekhalot 48D:10,” Pseudepigrapha Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of 

Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, November 19, 2004. 

Prior to Tenure Track: 

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Paper: “From Patriarch to the ‘Youth:’ Angelic Veneration of Enoch and His Title 

‘Youth’ in 2 (Slavonic) Enoch,” Pseudepigrapha Group, American Academy of 

Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 25, 2002. 

Paper: "Resurrection of Adam's Body: The Redeeming Role of Enoch-Metatron in 2 

Enoch 46 and Sefer Hekhalot 48C," Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group, 

American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 

November 24, 2003. 

Paper: "'Noah's Younger Brother': Anti-Noachic Polemics in 2 Enoch," 


Annual Meeting, Nashville, November 21, 2000. 

Paper: "Heavenly Counterpart of the Visionary in the Slavonic Ladder of Jacob," Early 

Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of 

Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Denver, November 17, 2001. 

Paper: "Ex 33 on God's Face: A Lesson from the Enochic Tradition," Early Jewish and 

Christian Mysticism Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical 

Literature Annual Meeting, Nashville, November 20, 2000. 

Paper: "Titles of Enoch-Metatron in 2 Enoch," Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism 

Group, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 

New Orleans, November 24, 1996. 

Membership and Service in Learned Societies and Seminars 

a. Membership 

Society of Biblical Literature (since 1996) 

Catholic Biblical Association of America (since 2000) 

Seminar on the Jewish Roots of Christian Mysticism (since 2002) 

The Enoch Seminar (since 2005) 

Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (since 2008) 

b. Service 

Founder and Co-Chair of the Seminar on the Jewish Roots of Christian Mysticism 

Co-Chair, New Testament Mysticism Project Seminar, Society of Biblical Literature 

Member of Steering Committee, Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism Group, Society 

of Biblical Literature 

Member of Steering Committee, Noncanonical Writings in Early Judaism and 

Christianity Section, Society of Biblical Literature 

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Member of Steering Committee, Pseudepigrapha Group, Society of Biblical Literature 

Member of Steering Committee, New Testament Mysticism Project Seminar, Society 

of Biblical Literature 

Member of Advisory Board, The Enoch Seminar 

Organizer and Chair of the Fifth Enoch Seminar: “Enoch, Adam, Melchisedek: 

Mediatorial Figures in 2 Enoch and Second Temple Judaism” (Naples, Italy 2009) 

Membership and Service in Scholarly Journals 

Henoch: Journal of Studies in Judaism and Christianity from Second Temple to Late 

Antiquity. Member of Advisory Board 

Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique. 

Member of Editorial Board 

Courses Taught 

Fall 2004 

Theo 001 

Theo 001 

Theo 228 

Spring 2005 

Theo 001 

Theo 201 

Theo 295 

Theo 295 

Theo 295 

Introduction to Theology (40 students) 


Apocalyptic Literature (21 student) 


New Testament Method (8 students) 

Independent Study (Bogdan Bucur) 

Independent Study (Jerome Douglas) 

Independent Study (Helga Kisler) 

Fall 2005 

Theo 001 (Hon) 

Theo 001 

Theo 221 

Spring 2006 


Theo 001 



Intertestamental Literature (12 students) 



Fall 2006 

Theo 001 

Theo 001 

Theo 238 

Theo 295 



Later New Testament Writings (12 students) 

Independent Study (Timothy Henderson) 

Spring 2007 

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Theo 001 

Theo 001 



Fall 2007 


Theo 001 

Theo 201 



New Testament Method (12 students) 

Spring 2008 


Theo 103 

Apocalyptic Literature (20 students) 

Apocalyptic Literature (36 students) 

Doctoral Qualifying Exams Boards and Dissertation Boards 

Chair of Doctoral Qualifying Exams Boards: 

Matthew Powell (October, 2005) 

James Carlson (December, 2005) 

Jerome Douglas (April, 2006) 

Robert Foster (October, 2006) 

Mark Koehne (October, 2006) 

Kristine Ruffato (April, 2007) 

Michael Harris (May, 2007) 

Member of Doctoral Qualifying Exams Boards: 

Jeremy Holmes (December, 2004) 

Aleksander Kragh (May, 2005) 

Shawnee Daniels-Sykes (September, 2005) 

Michael Novak (November, 2005) 

Nathan Schmiedicke (December, 2005) 

Daniel McGuire (February, 2006) 

Robert Schreiber (March, 2006) 

Anthony Brigmann (February 2007) 

Timothy Henderson (April, 2007) 

Lynn Wilson (April, 2007) 

Gavril Andreicut (May 2007) 

Dragos Giulea (May, 2007) 

Megan De Franza (October 2007) 

John Fortner (October 2007) 

Daniel Lloyd (October 2007) 

Mark Chapman (May, 2008) 

Member of Dissertation Boards: 

Stephanie Skoyles (January, 2005) 

Christopher Wellborn (October, 2005) 

Ardyth Bass (January, 2007) 

Jeremy Holmes (March, 2007) 

Bogdan Bucur (May, 2007) 

Matthew Powell (September, 2007) 

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James Carlson (April, 2008) 

Co-Director of Dissertation Boards 

Nathan Schmiedicke (September 2007) 

Jerome Douglas (in progress) 

Mark Koehne (in progress) 

Amy Richter (in progress) 

Kris Ruffatto (in progress) 

Reader of Master's Theses 

MaryBeth Herbst-Flagstad (March, 2007) 

Lisa Moore (August, 2007) 

Margaret Bender (April, 2008) 

Service on Departmental Committees 

2004-2005 – Member, Theology Department Pére Marquette Lecture Committee 

2004-2005 – Member, Theology Department Social Committee 

2005-2006 – Member, Theology Department M.A. Examination Committee 




2006-2007 – Member, Theology Department Graduate Committee 

2007-2008 – Member, Theology Department Advisory Committee 



Awards and Fellowships 

The Way Klingler Young Scholar Award, Marquette University, 2008 

Faculty Development Award, Marquette University, 2006 


Summer Faculty Fellowship, Marquette University, 2005 


Teaching Fellowship, Marquette University, 2003-2004 

Rev. John P. Raynor Dissertation Fellowship, Marquette University, 2002-2003 

Teaching Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship, Marquette University, 1998-2002 

Research Assistantship and Tuition Scholarship, Abilene Christian University, 1991- 

1997 

August 2008 

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Alexander Kulik: Curriculum Vitae (October 30, 2008) 

1. Personal Details 

Date of birth: January 9, 1970 

Date of immigration: December 14, 1990 

ID 306759457, Israeli 

Married, three children 

Military service: 1994 

Address: 

Department of Slavic and Russian Studies, Faculty of Humanities 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 

972-2-9309335 (home), 972-2-5882348 (office) 

a.kulik@mscc.huji.ac.il 

2. Higher Education 

1987—1990, Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology 

1991—1994, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Slavic and Jewish Studies, B.A. (summa cum 

laude) 

1994—1995, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Slavic and Jewish Studies, M.A. 

1995—2000, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Slavic and Jewish Studies, Ph.D. Supervisor: 

Moshe Taube 

1999—2000, Harvard University, Slavic Studies, Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Host: 

Michael Flier 

2000—2001, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for the Study of Christianity, Post- 

Doctoral Fellowship 

2000—2001, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea 

Scrolls, Post-Doctoral Fellowship 

2001—2002, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies, Warburg 

Post-Doctoral Fellowship 

3. Appointments at the Hebrew University 

1998—1999, Assistant Lecturer עוזר)‏ ‏,(מורה Department of Jewish History and Department of 

Russian and Slavic Studies 

2000—2002, Assistant Lecturer ( דוקטור ‏,(מדריך Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies 

2000—2001, Adjunct Lecturer, Rothberg International School 

2003—2006, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies 

2002—2006, Researcher, Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies

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2006—present, Lecturer, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and Department of Central and 

Eastern European Cultures (since 2008) 

4. Additional Functions/Tasks at the Hebrew University 

Administrative Positions: 

2001—2006, Academic Director, Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian 

2001—present, Deputy Director of the Center of Jewish Studies and Civilization (a joint venture of 

the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Moscow State University) 

2001—present, Deputy Director of the Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies (a joint venture of the 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and St.-Petersburg State University) 

2007—present, Vice Chairman, Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian 

2008—present, Acting Chairman, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies 

2008—present, Head, Program of Russian and Slavic Studies 

Other: 

2006—2007, Member, Steering Committee for the International Conference “The Jewish National 

Movement in the USSR: Awakening and Struggle, 1967—1989” 

2006— present, Member, Teachers and Students Committee of the Department of Russian and 

Slavic Studies 

2006—present, Member, Dissertation Committee, “Thematic Development in the Dialogues of 

Internet Forums in Russian Language” by Nataly Prytykovsky 

5. Service in other Academic and Research Institutions 

1999—2000, Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University 

2001—2006, Visiting Professor, Center of Jewish Studies and Civilization, Institute of Asian and 

African Studies, Moscow State University 

2002, 2005, Visiting Professor, Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, St. 

Petersburg State University 

2008—present, Coordinator, Project “Bible in Slavic Traditions,” Israel Academy of Sciences and 

Humanities

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6. Other Activity 

2001—present, Member, Editorial Board, Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta, Jerusalem—Moscow: 

Gesharim—Mosty Kultury 

2001—present, Editor-in-Chief, Bibliotheca Judaica Series (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

and “Gesharim”—“Mosty Kultury” Publishing House) 

2003—Deputy Editor, Hadashim Gam Yeshanim, Jerusalem—St. Petersburg: Thesa 

2005—2006, Chairman, Advisory Board of the Project Introducing Media Resources into Teaching 

Jewish Civilization in Russian, Jewish Media Fund c/o Revson Foundation, New York 

2007—present, Member, Editorial Board, ויחסי גומלין בין הספרות הרוסית והספרות העברית ‏,זיקות Ramat 

Gan: Bar Ilan University Press 

2007—present, Editor-in-Chief, Studia Judaeoslavica Book Series (Leiden—Boston: Brill 

Academic Publishers) 

2008—present, Member, Biblical Commission, International Committee of Slavists 

7. Research Grants and Awards 

1995—1998, Rotenstreich Doctoral Fellowship ( ות ‏"ת ‏,(מלגת “The Apocalypse of Abraham: Towards 

the Lost Original,” USD 39,000, # 1, 2, 7, 21 

1995, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Special Mark Juveleer Research Grant, “The 

Apocalypse of Abraham: Towards the Lost Original,” USD 6,500, # 1, 7, 21 

1995, Wolf Prize for Doctoral Students, USD 2,000, # 1 

1997, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Research Grant, “Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and 

Eastern Church Tradition,” USD 2,500, # 1 

1997, Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls Research Grant, “Apocalypse of 

Abraham,” USD 1,500, # 1, 7 

1998, Ginzburg Foundation Prize, “Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha” USD 800, # 1 

1999—2000, Hebrew University Post-Doctoral Fellowship, “Jews and Judaism in Early Slavic 

Sources,” USD 20,000, # 2, 4, 9, 23, 24 

1999—2000, Harvard University Perelman Foundation Fellowship, “Jews and Judaism in Early 

Slavic Sources,” USD 10,000, # 2, 4, 9, 23, 24 

1999—2000, Federman Foundation, “Jews and Judaism in Old Russian Documents,” USD 5,000, # 

4, 9

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1999—2000, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Research Grant, “Slavic Pseudepigrapha,” 

USD 3,500, # 2 

2000—2001, Hebrew University Center for the Study of Christianity Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 

“Jews and Russian Church,” USD 3,000, # 4, 9 

2000—2001, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Research Grant, “Greek-Slavonic 

Apocalypse of Baruch,” USD 2,500, # 3 

2001—2002, Hebrew University Warburg Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, “Jews and Judaism 

in Early Slavic Sources,” USD 12,000, # 4, 9, 24 

2001—2002, Hebrew University Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated 

Literature Post-Doctoral Fellowship, “Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch,” USD 3,000, 

# 3 

2007, Golda Meir Fellowship Lectureship Award 

2007, University Intramural Research Fund, “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in the Intercultural 

Transmission,” USD 10,000 

2007—2011, ISRAELI SCIENCE FOUNDATION, “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in the Intercultural 

Transmission” (grant no. 450/07), NIS 552,000 for four years (NIS 138,000 per year), # 3 

8. Teaching at the Hebrew University: 

a) Supervision of Master’s and Doctoral degree students 

Master’s degree students: 

2008—present, Moshe Greenberg, “Golden Horde in the Time of Khan Nogay” (tentative title). Cosupervisor—Prof. 

Michal Biran (Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) 

Doctoral degree students: 

2008—present, Asya Bereznyak, “Missionary Cultures and Patterns of Conversion and 

Christianization in the Christian East and West c. 750-1100.” Co-supervisor— Prof. Esther 

Cohen (Department of History) 

b) Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visitors

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2008—2009, Isaiah Gruber (Assistant Professor, Goucher College; Lady Davis Post-Doctoral 

Fellow), “Hebrew, Greek, or Russian? The Layering of Meaning in Muscovite Culture.” 

c) Courses Taught by Candidate 

B.A. 

Russian and Slavic Linguistics, 2003—2004, 2004—2005, 2005—2006, 2006—2007, 2007—2008 

Old Church Slavonic, 1998—1999 

History of Russian Language, 1998—1999, 

Russian Culture, 2007—2008, 2008-2009 

Russian and East European Film and Film Theory, 2005—2006, 2006-2007, 2007—2008 

History of Russian and East European Jewry, 1998—1999, 2006—2007 

Jewish-Slavic Cultural Contacts, 2000—2001 

M.A. 

Slavic Pseudepigrapha, 2006-2007 

Jewish Mysticism in Slavic Traditions, 2008—2009

Alexander Kulik: List of Publications (October 30, 2008) 

Abbreviations for functions of co-author/s: principal investigator PI , student S , co-researcher C , technician/laboratory assistant T 

1. Doctoral Dissertation 

1) Kulik, A. (2000). The Apocalypse of Abraham: Towards the Lost Original (The Hebrew University of 

Jerusalem). Superviser: Prof. Moshe Taube. # 2, 10, 11, 12, 23, 24 

2. Books 

2) Kulik, A. (2004 and 2005). Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha: Towards the Lost Original of the 

Apocalypse of Abraham. First edition (paperback): Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical 

Literature, 2004. 106 pp. Second edition (hardback): Leiden—Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 

2005. 106 pp. Revision of # 1. 

After the Appointment 

3) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch). Berlin—New York: 

Verlag Walter de Gruyter. Appr. 450 pp. 

3. Books Edited 

4) Petrukhin, V. PI , Moskovich W. PI , Fedorchuk, A. PI , Kulik, A. PI , Shapira D. PI (2005). Khazars 

(Russian). Jerusalem—Moscow: Gesharim—Mosty Kultury. 568 pp. 


5) Kulik, A. PI (editor-in-chief; in collaboration with Tantlevsky, I. C and Weisskopf , M. C ) (2006). 

Hebrew Bible: Early Prophets with a New Russian Translation and Commentaries. Jerusalem— 

Moscow: Gesharim—Mosty Kultury. lxxiii, 370 pp. 

6) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period 

(Russian), Jerusalem—Moscow: Gesharim —Mosty Kultury. 

4. Chapters in Collections

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7) Kulik, A. (1997). “On the Dating of the Apocalypse of Abraham” (Russian). In Memoriam Ja. S. 

Lurie. St. Petersburg: Athenium—Phoenix, pp. 189—197. 

8) Kulik, A. (2002). “Slavonic Texts of the Cheirograph Legend, Assembled and Translated.” Michael 

E. Stone. Adam’s Contract with Satan: The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam. Bloomington, 

Indiana: Indiana University Press, pp. 27—28, 33—34, 37—39, 117—120. 

9) Kulik, A. (2003). “On Jewish Presence in Vohlynia in the 12th—13th Centuries” (Russian). Jewish- 

Polish and Jewish Russian Contacts (= Jews and Slavs 11). Jerusalem—Gdańsk, pp. 194—202. 

10) Kulik, A. (2005). “Textual Criticism and Retroversion.” Judeo-Bulgarica, Judeo-Russica et 

Palaeoslavica (= Jews and Slavs 15). Jerusalem—Sofia, pp. 313—323. # 1 

11) Kulik, A. (2006). “Polysemantics vs. Homography.” Quadrivium: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Wolf 

Moskovich. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Center for Slavic Languages and Literatures, pp. 25— 

32. # 1 

12) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “Slavic Apocrypha and Slavic Linguistics.” Christfried Böttrich, Lorenzo 

DiTommaso (eds.). Old Testament Apocrypha in the Slavonic Tradition: Continuity and Diversity 

(Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series). London—New York: T&T 

Clark International/Continuum. # 1 

13) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “Apocalypse of Abraham” (Hebrew). David Rosenthal (ed.). Literature of 

the Second Temple Period. Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities 

in the East. 


14) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “Apocalypse of Abraham.” Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn, Paul 

Mendes-Flohr, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Eric J. Ziolkowski (eds.). 

Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin—New York: Verlag Walter de Gruyter. 

15) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “Jews of Old Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction” (Hebrew). 

Alexander Kulik (ed.). History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period 

(Hebrew). Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History. Version of # 28. 

16) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “Jews of Old Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction” (Russian). 

Alexander Kulik (ed.). History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period. 

Jerusalem—Moscow: Gesharim —Mosty Kultury. Version of # 28. 

17) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “The Jews of Slavia Graeca: the Northern Frontier of Byzantine Jewry?” 

Reuven Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy Stroumsa, and Rina Talgam (eds.). Jews of Byzantium: 

Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures.

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5. Articles 

18) Kulik, A. (1995). “On the Lost Greek Book of Esther” (Russian). Slavianovedenie 2, pp. 76—80. 

19) Orel, V. PI and Kulik, A. PI (1995). “Notes on Novgorodian Birch Bark Letters” (Russian). Russian 

Linguistics 19, pp. 381—390. 

20) Orel, V. PI and Kulik, A. PI (1995). “Notes on Old Kievan Graffiti” (Russian). Archeologia, pp. 

124—132. 

21) Kulik, A. (1996). “On a Church Slavonic Hapax Legomenon” (Russian). Palaeoslavica 5, pp. 339— 

345. 

22) Kulik, A. (1996). “Apocalypse of Abraham” (Russian). Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta 5 (23), pp. 

231—254. 

23) Kulik, A. (2002). “Reconstruction and Interpretation.” Apocrypha 13, pp. 203—226. # 1. 

24) Kulik, A. (2003). “The Gods of Nahor: On the Pantheon of the Apocalypse of Abraham.” Journal of 

Jewish Studies 54.2, pp. 228—233. # 1. 


25) Kulik, A. (2007). “Jews of Medieval Russia: To the Research Methodology” (Hebrew). Peamim 

111-112, pp. 185—208. 

26) Kulik, A. (2008). “Judeo-Greek Legacy in Medieval Rus’.” Viator 39.1, pp. 51—64. 

27) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “The Earliest Evidence on the Jewish Presence in Western Rus'.” Harvard 

Ukrainian Studies 27.1-4. 

28) Kulik, A. (forthcoming). “Jews of Old Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction” (Russian). 

Ruthenica 7, pp. 52-70. 

6. Reviews 


29) Kulik, A. (2006). “Sophie Dubnova-Erlich, Bread and Matzoth. Translated by Alan Shaw. Tenafty, 

New Jersey: Hermitage Publishers, 2005.” Slavic and East European Journal 50.4 (2006), pp. 

710—711.

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7. Participation in Conferences, Lectures, and Other Activity 

Invited Lectures 

“Slavic Apocrypha: Interpretation and Reconstruction,” Early Slavists Seminar, Davis Center for Russian 

Studies / co-sponsored with the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2000 

“Jews and Russian Church in the Middle Ages,” Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University 

of Jerusalem, 2001 

“The Greek-Slavonic Book of Baruch: Jewish or Christian Composition?” Orion Center for the Study of the 

Dead Sea Scrolls, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002 

“Jews and Slavs: Introduction to the Research Methodology,” Department of Southern and Western Slavic 

History, Faculty of History, Moscow State University, 2002 

“Problem of the Origin of East European Jewry,” Center for the Bible and Jewish Studies, Faculty of 

Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University, 2003 

“Jews of ‘Slavia Graeca:’ Byzantine Jews in Mediaeval Rus’” The Jews Between Minority and Majority 

Cultures: The Case of Byzantium. Research Group at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Center for Jewish 

Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006 

“New Findings on the Jewish Presence in Old Rus’,” Russian Department, Reed College, Portland OR, 2006 

“Jews of Medieval Rus’: Sources and Historical Reconstruction,” Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies / 

co-sponsored with the Department of History and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, 

Northwestern University, Chicago, 2006 

“Pre-Ashkenazic Jewry in Eastern Europe,” Rotenstreich Fellows Seminar, The Hebrew University of 

Jerusalem, 2007 

“Origins of Eastern European Jewry,” Board of Regents, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007 

Papers Presented At Conferences 

“The Apocalypse of Abraham: Problems of Interpretation,” Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 

Jerusalem, 1997 

“To the Dating of the Apocalypse of Abraham,” Jerusalem in Slavic Cultures and Religions, Jerusalem, 

1998 

“The Pre-Ashkenazic Communities in Eastern Europe: Myth or Reality?,” Jews in a Changing World: Jews 

of Latvia and Baltic Region in European History and Culture, Riga, 2001 

“Slavic Apocrypha and Early Rabbinic Literature,” Ninth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference 

on Jewish Studies, Moscow, 2003

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“The Pantheon of the Apocalypse of Abraham,” Tenth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on 

Jewish Studies, Moscow, 2004 

“Early Jewish Astronomy in Slavic Pseudepigrapha,” Eleventh Annual International Interdisciplinary 

Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, 2005 

“Christology vs. Jewish Messianism in Slavonic Pseudepigrapha,” Messianic Ideas in Jewish and Slavic 

Cultures, Jerusalem, 2005 

“Problems of the Linguistic Study of Slavonic Apocrypha,” Problems of the Cyrillo-Methodian Achievement 

and of Bulgarian Culture in the 9th—10th centuries, Sofia, 2005 

“Retroversion as a Tool of Interpretation,” American Associations of Teachers of Slavic and East European 

Languages, Washington, 2005 

“Apocalyptic Literature in Slavic Cultures: Functioning and Reception,” After The Apocalypse: The 

Nachleben of Apocalyptic Literature in the Armenian Tradition, Jerusalem, 2007 

Respondent at the session “Gulag and After,” Eyewitness Narratives: International Symposium dedicated to 

the Centenary of Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982), Jerusalem, 2007 

“Extra-Canonical Scriptures in Slavic Traditions: Tasks of the Modern Research,” Israeli-Bulgarian 

Workshop “The Bible in Slavic Tradition” dedicated to the memory of Moshe Altbauer, Jerusalem, 2008 

“Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in the Intercultural Transmission,” 14th International Congress of Slavists, Ohrid, 

Macedonia, 2008 

7. Patents 

—

Alexander Kulik: Scholarly Biography (October 1, 2008) 

Research 

My research interests encompass several fields in the humanities. I work in linguistics, textual criticism, 

translation studies, and history of culture. The study of these areas in tandem with each other leads to 

innovative results and the development of new research tools that can be applied by scholars in a variety 

of disciplines. My background in Slavic and Jewish studies provides me with the basis for doing research 

in Slavic studies, the culture and history of Eastern European Jewry, Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in 

Slavonic translation, and Jewish-Slavic interaction and cultural exchange in different periods. These 

fields present a wealth of enigmatic and intriguing problems which have long attracted the attention of 

scholars working in Slavic and Jewish studies. Even so, some significant breakthroughs notwithstanding, 

most of these areas still await a consistent and full-scale application of up-to-date knowledge and method 

from different disciplines. 

As a doctoral student (1995—1999), I worked together with the late Moshe Altbauer on an edition of 

new fragments of the Slavonic Psalterium Sinaiticum. Collaborating with Michael Stone in his work on 

Vita Adam et Evae, I prepared a critical edition and English translation of the Slavonic Heirographon 

story; see my contribution to Michael E. Stone, Adam’s Contract with Satan: The Legend of the 

Cheirograph of Adam (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, Indiana, 2002). At Universität Würzburg I 

enriched my knowledge and research skills in the study of Eastern Church and Slavic philology under the 

guidance of Christian Hannick. During the same period, I researched the Slavonic version of the Book of 

Esther going back to the lost early Jewish-Greek text; see my article in Slavianovedenije 2 (1995). I also 

participated in projects on East Slavic graffiti and Novgorodian birch bark letters; see my articles in 

Russian Linguistics 19 (1995) and Archeologia (1995). 

In my doctoral dissertation titled The Apocalypse of Abraham: Towards the Lost Original (The 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000), I set out to develop a sound philological method for the study of 

Hebrew and Aramaic sources preserved in Slavonic translations. This involved studying one of the most 

representative documents of this group based on an intertextual analysis of diverse material belonging to 

Jewish, Greek, and Slavic literary traditions. The work aimed to contribute to the study of both the Jewish 

and the Christian sacral traditions, no less than to the investigation of early Slavic literary activity and its 

external sources. 

As a post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, under the guidance of 

Michael Flier, I began work on “Jews and Judaism in Early Slavic Sources,” a project of collecting 

medieval Slavic sources mentioning contemporary Jews or expressing attitudes towards Judaism, so as 

generally to shed light on the presence and the cultural functioning of Jews in medieval Christian society, 

as well as on attitudes towards Judaism found in Church, official, and popular sources. This study has

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since made it possible to reevaluate issues such as the origin and cultural characteristics of pre- 

Ashkenazic Jews in Eastern Europe and their role in the cultural production of Eastern Slavs. Some of the 

results of this research appeared in a series of articles in 2003-2008 (see below). 

My first monograph, Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha, originally published by the Society of 

Biblical Literature in 2004, appeared in a second edition with Brill Academic Publishers in 2005. Based 

on my doctoral dissertation work, the book is the first systematic attempt to develop as well as to apply 

retroversion techniques to Slavonic translated literature. As a contribution to different fields of 

knowledge, it also aims to achieve the following goals: (i) to interpret the ancient Jewish documents 

preserved in medieval Slavonic versions; (ii) to understand the literary production of the Slavs, especially 

during the “classic” period of Slavonic literature; and (iii) to improve our understanding of the linguistic 

and textual phenomena found in translated Slavonic texts. The book has received laudatory reviews by: 

Andrei Orlov, Review of Biblical Literature 5 (2005); Jaime Vazquez Allegue, Review of Biblical 

Literature 5 (2005); Basil Lourié, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 15:3 (2006); Darrell 

Hannah, Journal for the Study of the New Testament 28.5 (2006); and Nicolae Roddy, Catholic Biblical 

Quarterly 68.2 (2006). It has also been nominated (along with two other monographs) for the AATSEEL 

(American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) Best Book Prize in the “Best 

Book in Slavic Linguistics” category in 2006. 

My next book, Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch), was accepted in 2008 for 

publication in Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature, the Walter de Gruyter International Series. In 

this book I believe to have found the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved 

in Greek and Slavonic. 3 Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the history of 

the motifs found in early Jewish lore, at times providing missing links between different stages of their 

development, and preserves important evidence on proto-Gnostic and proto-Christian traditions. This 

project was supported by the Israeli Science Foundation, the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea 

Scrolls and Associated Literature, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. 

In 2006-08, in addition to this monograph as well as chapters and articles on Slavonic 

pseudepigrapha and related topics, I prepared a series of articles on early Jewish history in Eastern 

Europe. These deal primarily with questions of the origins of Eastern European Jewry and cultural 

characteristics of pre-Ashkenazic Eastern European communities; see Peamim 111-112 (2007), Viator 

39.1 (2008), and my forthcoming papers in the periodicals Harvard Ukrainian Studies 27.1-4 and 

Ruthenica 7, as well as in the collected volumes History of Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early 

Modern Period and Jews of Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. I also edited the 

former volume—History of the Jews in Russia: From Antiquity to Early Modern Period—a collection of 

essays constituting, the first volume of History of the Jews in Russia, the Zalman Shazar Center for

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Jewish History series edited by Israel Bartal (forthcoming). This edited collection covers the following 

topics: the origins of Ashkenazic and non-Ashkenazic communities in Russia; Jews in Khazaria; Kievan 

Rus’; the State of Moscow; Lithuania; and the cultural interaction of Jews and Eastern Slavs. In June 

2007 I was requested by the Rector’s Office to present my work in progress devoted to the origins of 

Eastern European Jewry at the annual meeting of the Board of Regents. A discussion of this research 

along with my interview was published in the magazine Scopus; see “Routes to Roots,” Scopus 22 

(2008), pp. 30-32. 

In 2007 I was approached by Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden—Boston) with the proposal to 

initiate a book series devoted to Judeo-Slavic studies, and since October 2007 I have been working as 

Editor-in-Chief of the Studia Judaeoslavica series. Among members of the editorial board are: Israel 

Bartal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Lazar Fleishman (Stanford University), Heinz-Dietrich 

Löwe (University of Heidelberg), Alexei Miller (Central European University), Benjamin Nathans 

(University of Pennsylvania), Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University), Moshe Taube (The 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The series covers a wide array of subjects in Judeo-Slavic Studies, 

including Jewish history and culture in Slavic lands, Jewish-Slavic relations, literary, linguistic, and 

artistic cross-fertilization. The series seeks to provide insight into the different periods of Jewish-Slavic 

co-existence from the Middle Ages until the present. We plan to publish from two to five monographs or 

collected volumes in English per year, peer-reviewed by leading scholars in Slavic and Jewish studies. 

The initiation of the book series reflects and buttresses the growing vitalization of the field in recent 

years. 

In 2007, my project titled “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in Intercultural Transmission” was granted 

support by the Israeli Science Foundation (grant no. 450/07): 552,000 NIS for the four years 2007— 

2011. The project is being undertaken as a textual study of a selected corpus of Jewish pseudepigrapha 

preserved in Slavonic, concentrating on issues of textual transformation in the process of intercultural 

transmission. My plans for the future include also carrying on my research of the Slavonic Ladder of 

Jacob (in cooperation with James Kugel of Harvard and Bar-Ilan Universities) and deeper involvement in 

the study of modern Russian culture. I am particularly interested in interartistic studies, especially in 

work on traditional imagery in Russian modernism (a research project undertaken jointly with Roman 

Timenchik), and in studying the development of the Russian cultural canon. 

Teaching 

As a student and teacher, I have had an opportunity to learn and to compare teaching techniques in four 

different countries: Israel, the USA, Russia, and Germany. In my view, teaching is an enriching,

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intellectually stimulating experience, and a beneficial complement to my research activities. Even for 

introductory courses I prefer interactive, seminar-like modes of teaching rather than lecturing to a passive 

audience. My aim is to help students to develop skills and analytical and methodological abilities 

applicable to different disciplines, rather than confine my role to delivering information. I enjoy devising 

and introducing innovative teaching techniques and resources (such as integrating different media in 

courses where they are not usually used or research simulations in courses for undergraduate students; I 

also encourage an independent research practicum for advanced students). 

I offer a broad range of courses in Slavic studies and other areas in the humanities. Since 1998 I have 

taught courses in a variety of fields in Slavic linguistics and literature, palaeoslavica, and Russian culture, 

as well as different topics in Jewish-Slavic cultural contacts, history and culture of Eastern European 

Jewry, and Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. I offer general introductory and 

interdepartmental courses in the departments of Russian and Slavic Studies, General and Jewish history, 

Linguistics, Comparative Religion, Jewish Thought, Communication and Media (at the Faculty of the 

Social Sciences). 

I supervise M.A. and Ph.D. students’ research and advise a post-doctoral research fellow (see CV). 

In addition to teaching, I also design and develop programs of study for graduate and undergraduate 

students. In 2006-2008, even prior to my appointment as Acting Chairman of the Department of Russian 

and Slavic Studies and Head of the Program of Russian and Slavic Studies, I was in charge of developing 

the Languages, Literature and Culture specializations at the department. Since 2000, I have been 

Academic Director (since 2006—Vice Chair) of the Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian at the 

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Deputy Director of both the Center for Jewish Studies and 

Civilization at Moscow State University and of the Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at St. 

Petersburg State University. In this capacity I am responsible for creating and coordinating the programs 

of study taught jointly by Israeli and Russian staff at both these centers in Russia. 

I received the Golda Meir Fellowship Award for Lectureship in 2007.

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Appendix 

Periodicals 

Apocrypha: Revue Internationale des Littératures Apocryphes (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers / 

Association pour l'étude de la littérature apocryphe chrétienne [AELAC]) 

Archeologia (Kiev: Akademperiodica / Institute of Archeology, Ukrainian National Academy of 

Sciences) 

Harvard Ukrainian Studies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) 

Journal of Jewish Studies (Oxford: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) 

Slavianovedenie (Moscow: Nauka / Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) 

Palaeoslavica: International Journal for the Study of Slavic Medieval Literature, History, Language 

and Ethnology (Cambridge, MA) 

Peamim: Studies in Oriental Jewry (Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish 

Communities in the East) 

Russian Linguistics: International Journal for the Study of the Russian Language (Dordrecht— 

Boston—London: Kluwer Academic Publishers) 

Ruthenica (Kiev: Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences / Institute of Ukrainian History) 

Slavic and East European Journal (Berkeley, CA: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East 

European Languages [AATSEEL]) 

Viator (Turnhout—Los Angeles, CA: Brepols Publishers / The UCLA Center for Medieval and 

Renaissance Studies)

February 12, 2009 

Letter of Consent 

I hereby confirm that I am ready to take part in the research group “Cultural 

Archaeology of Jews and Slavs: Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic Interaction 

and Cross-Fertilization” at the Institute for Advanced Studies in March-August, 2011. 

Dr. Judith Kalik 

Jerusalem

Academic Actitvities (last five years) 


During the last five years I have been mainly engaged in a composition of my booksize 

manuscript “Scepter of Judah: the Jewish Autonomy in the Polish-Lithuanian 

Commonwealth” which was accepted for publication by Brill publishing house. It is 

based upon newly descovered corpus of annual Jewish poll-tax lists for 1717-1764. 

This group of sources provides for the first time systematic records of the Jewish 

population for entire Crown Poland for nearly half a century. I have spent an 

academic year of 2003/4 in Poland working on this rich and revealing archival 

material, and since then this was my major research project. It culminated in an 

entirely new outlook of the Jewish autonomy in 18 th century Polish-Lithuanian 

Commonwealth presented in my manuscript. 

In 2008/9 I advanced consideraby in my new research project entitled “Jews in the 

Western Periphery of Russia in 1667-1772” concerning the Jewish population in the 

former Polish-Lithuanian territories annexed by Russia in mid-seventeenth century, 

from the peace of Andrusovo to the first partition of Poland. I collected already new 

archival matrial about the rural Jewish population in these areas, and I continue to 

work on this subject. 

List of publications (last five years): 

2004 

1."Jews in Catholic Ecclesiastic Legislation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" 

Jewish History Quarterly 209, pp.26-39 (English)

2. " The Lost Treasure: Lists of the Jewish Poll Tax from the 18th Century in the 

Archives of Polish Military Treasury", Zion 69, pp. 329-356 (Hebrew). 

3. "Christian Kabbala and Polish Jews: Attitudes of the Church to Jewish Conversion 

and the Idea of ‘Jacob’s Return’ in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th 

Century", Jewish History Quarterly 212, pp.492-501 (English). 

2006 

4. “Jewish Leaseholders (Arendarze) in 18th Century Crown Poland”, Jahrbücher für 

Geschichte Osteuropas 54, pp. 229-240 (English). 

5.“ Beilis Trial in Russian Public Discourse in the Context of the Other National 

Minorities - the Case of the Votiaks (Udmurts)”, Jewish Studies an Internet Journal 5, 

pp. 123-131 (Hebrew). 

6. “Suburban Story: Structure of Jewish Communities in Largest Royal Cities of 18 th 

Century Crown Poland”, Kwartalnik Historyczny 113, pp. 49-75 (English). 

2007 

7. ”Deconstructing Communities: The Administrative Structure of the Rural Jewish 

Population in the Polish Crown Lands in the 18th Century”, Gal-ed, 21, pp. 53-76. 

(English). 

8. ”Between the Census and the Poll-Tax: the Jewish Population of Crown Poland 

during the 18 th Century”, Journal of European Economic History 36, pp. 101-123. 

(English). 

2008 

9.”The Inn as a Focal Point for Jewish Relations with the Catholic Church in the 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, Jews and Slavs 21, pp.381-390.

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CURRICULUM VITAE 


1. Basic Data: 

Date of birth: 23.2.1965 

Address: 16 th Str. 39, apt. 16, Jerusalem 97534, tel. +972-2-5830716 

e-mail: kalik@012.net.il 

citezenship: Israeli 

marital status: married (+5) 

2. HIGH EDUCATION: 

YEARS INSTITUTION SUBJECTS DEGREE 

1983-86 the Hebrew University General History, B.A. 

of Jerusalem 

Russian & Slavonic Studies 

1987-91 the Hebrew University Eastern European History M.A. 

of Jerusalem (cum laude) 

1992-99 the Hebrew University History of Polish Jewry PhD 

of Jerusalem 

3. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 

YEARS INSTITUTION POSITION 

1991-1999 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Teaching Assistent 

Department of Russian & Slavonic St. 

1999-2009 '' '' Adjunct Lecturer 

2003, 2005 Moscow State University, Institute of Visiting Scholar 

Asian & African Studies 

4. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES 

1993 "Jewish Lease-holdings in Szlachta's Eyes", The First International 

Conference on the Polish Jewry, Tel Aviv University 

1993 "Patterns of Contacts between the Catholic Church and the Jews in the Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth - the Problem of Jewish Debts", The World 

Congress of the Jewish Sciences, Jerusalem 

1995 "'Zastawa' and 'Wyderkaf' in the Economic Activity of the Jews in Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth", Centre in the Name of Bernard Cherik, 

symposium in honor of Prof. Nahum Gross, Jerusalem 

1995 "The Financial Basis of the Jewish Autonomy", The Third International 

Conference on Polish Jewry, Tel Aviv 

1996 "Christian Nurses and Governesses in Jewish Households in the Polis- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth in 17-18th Centuries", The Fourth International 

Conference on Polish Jewry, Jerusalem 

1996 "Jews and Different Churches of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", 

Report at the Congress of Commission Internationale d'Histoire Ecclésiastique

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Comparée, "Christianity in East Central Europe and Its Relations with the 

West and the East", Lublin, KUL. 

1997 "Jews and Different Churches of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", The 

World Congress of the Jewish Sciences, Jerusalem. 

1998 “The Orthodox Church and the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian 

Commonwealth", International Conference on 1648-49 Disturbances, Bar Ilan 

University. 

1999 "Attitudes towards the Jews and their Role in Shaping of the Self Identity of 

the Polish Catholic Church in the 18th Century", Ethnicity and Religion in 

Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj, Romania 

1999 "Jewish Spirituality, Religion and Religious Practice in the Eyes of Poles in 

the 17- 18th Centuries", Jewish Spirituality in Poland, International 

Conference in Memory of Prof. Chone Shmeruk, Cracow, Poland . 

2001 "Jews and Peasants in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-18th 

Centuries", The World Congress of the Jewish Sciences, Jerusalem. 

2002 "Church’s involvement in the Contacts between Jews and Burghers in the 

17th-18th Centuries Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", International 

Conference on Jews and Burghers in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 

German Historical institute, Warsaw,Poland. 

2003 "Attitudes towards the Jews as a Formative Factor in the Self-identity of 

Polish Clergy in the 18th Century", Christians/Poles and Jews in Mutual 

Perception in Poland – an Archeology of Divided Memory,Simon Dubnow 

Institute,Leipzig, Germany. 

2005 “Beilis Trial in the Context of the Attitude towards National Minorities in 

Russian Public Discourse”, The Rusian Culture and the Jewish Culture in the 

20 th Century. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. 

2005 “Attitude towards the Jews as a Central Element in the Christian Messianism 

in the 18 th Century Poland”, Messianic Ideas in Jewish and Slavic Cultures. 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Jerusalem. 

2006 “Jews in Polemic Literature of ‘Western Rus’ in the 16 th -17 th Centuries”, 

Russian Literature and Literatures of the World, Bar Ilan University. Ramat 

Gan. 

2007 “Jewish Political Leadership in 18 th Century Crown Poland: Its Structure and 

Personal Composition”, Jewish Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: from 

Shtadlanut to Mass Parties. Vilnius. 

2008 “Decorporating the Jews: Peasants’ Communities as a Model for the Legal 

Status of the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, Fourth Estates: 

Legal Status of the Jews in the Early Modern Central and Eastern Europe. 

Vilnius 

5. PRIZES AND AWARDS: 

1989-93 Ginzburg Award, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies. 

1991 MAASH Prize, Institute of Jewish Studies. 

1992 Friedman Award, Institute of Contemporary Jewry. 

1992-96 Memorial Foundation Award. 

1993-96 Nathan Rothenstreich Award, Council for High Education. 

1994 Bella Mandelsberg-Schildkreut Prize. 

1994-96 Vidal-Sassoun Award, Centre for the Studies of Antisemitism.

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1996 J.L. Talmon Award, Department of History, Heb.Univ. 

1998/99 Hanadiv Fellowship 

2005-06 Leonid Nevzlin Center reserch grant 

2006-07 Research support grant of Vilnius Centre for Studies of the Culture and 

History of East European Jews 

2008-09 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship Grant 

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 

1. DOCTORAL THESIS. 

Subject: The Catholic Church and the Jews in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 

the 17th-18th Centuries. 

Supervisor: Jacob Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor 

Emeritus. 

Date of award: 30.5.99. 

2. BOOKS. 

1. The Polish Nobility and the Jews in the Dietine Legislation of the Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jerusalem 1997, 90 pp. (Hebrew). 

2. The Scepter of Judah. Jewish Autonomy in Eighteenth Century Crown Poland, 286 

pp. (English), accepted for publication by Brill Publishing House. 

3. Articles in Periodicals. 

1993 

1. " Szlachta Attitudes towards Jewish Commerce during the Seventeenth and 

Eighteenth Centuries - Utility versus Ideology", Gal-ed 13, pp. 43-57 (Hebrew). 

1995 

2. "Szlachta Attitudes towards Jewish Arenda in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth 

Centuries", Gal-ed 14, pp. 15-25 (English). 

2001 

3. "Christian Servants Employed by Jews in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 

17th-18th Century", Polin 14, pp. 259-270 (English). 

2002 

4."Polish Attitudes towards Jewish Spirituality in the Eighteenth Century", Polin 

15,pp.77-85. (English) 

2003 

5. "The Orthodox Church and the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", 

Jewish History 17, pp. 229-237, (English). 

6. "Church's involvement in the contacts between Jews and burghers in the 17th-18th 

centuries Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", Jewish History Quarterly 207, pp.342- 

348, (English) 

7. "The Attitudes towards the Jews in the Christian Polemic Literature in Poland in 

the 16th-18th Centuries", Jews and Slavs, 11,ed.,W.Moskovich and I. Fijałkowska- 

Janiak, Jerusalem 2003,pp.58-78. (English) 

2004 

8."Jews in Catholic Ecclesiastic Legislation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" 

Jewish History Quarterly 209, pp.26-39 (English)

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9. " The Lost Treasure: Lists of the Jewish Poll Tax from the 18th Century in the 

Archives of Polish Military Treasury", Zion 69, pp. 329-356 (Hebrew). 

10. "Christian Kabbala and Polish Jews: Attitudes of the Church to Jewish Conversion 

and the Idea of ‘Jacob’s Return’ in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th 

Century", Jewish History Quarterly 212, pp.492-501 (English). 

2006 

11. “Jewish Leaseholders (Arendarze) in 18th Century Crown Poland”, Jahrbücher 

für Geschichte Osteuropas 54, pp. 229-240 (English). 

12.“ Beilis Trial in Russian Public Discourse in the Context of the Other National 

Minorities - the Case of the Votiaks (Udmurts)”, Jewish Studies an Internet Journal 5, 

pp. 123-131 (Hebrew). 

13. “Suburban Story: Structure of Jewish Communities in Largest Royal Cities of 18 th 

Century Crown Poland”, Kwartalnik Historyczny 113, pp. 49-75 (English). 

2007 

14. ”Deconstructing Communities: The Administrative Structure of the Rural Jewish 

Population in the Polish Crown Lands in the 18th Century”, Gal-ed, 21, pp. 53-76. 

(English). 

15. ”Between the Census and the Poll-Tax: the Jewish Population of Crown Poland 

during the 18 th Century”, Journal of European Economic History 36, pp. 101-123. 

(English). 

2008 

16.”The Inn as a Focal Point for Jewish Relations with the Catholic Church in the 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, Jews and Slavs 21, pp.381-390. 

Chapters in Collections 

1997 

17. "The Catholic Church and the Jews in Poland" in The Broken Chain: Polish Jewry 

through the Ages, vol. 1, (ed.) I. Bartal, I. Gutman, Jerusalem, pp. 193-208 (Hebrew). 

1998 

18. "Patterns of Contacts between the Catholic Church and the Jews in Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 17-18th Centuries: Jewish Debts" in: Studies in 

the History of the Jews in Old Poland in Honor of Jacob Goldberg , (ed.) A. Teller, 

Jerusalem (Scripta Hierosolymitana 38), pp.102-122 (English). 

1999 

19. “The Jews and the Various Churches of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, 

Churshes and Confessions in Easts Central Europe in Early Modern Times, (ed.) H. 

Laszkiewicz, Lublin, pp. 140-152 (English). 

2000 

20. "'Zastaw' (Deposit) and 'Wiederkauf' in the Economic Activity of the Jews in the 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" in Jewish Enterpreneurship in Modern Times: 

East Europe and Eretz Israel (ed.) R. Aaronsohn and Sh. Stampfer, Jerusalem, pp. 

25-47 (Hebrew). 

21. "The Relations of Jews to Various Christian Churches in the Kingdom of Poland- 

Lithuania: Characterization and Comparison of Types of Contact" in Proceedings of 

the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B: History of the Jewish 

People (ed.) R. Margolin, Jerusalem, pp. 103-109 (Hebrew). 

22. "Żydowska duchowość, religia i praktyki religijne w oczach Polaków w XVII- 

XVIII wieku" in Duchowość Żydowska w Polsce, Materiały z międzynarodowej

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konferencji dedykowanej pamięci profesora Chone Shmeruka, Kraków 26-28 

Kwietnia 1999 (ed.) M. Galas, Kraków, pp. 81-90 (Polish). 

2001 

23. "The Catholic Church and the Jews in Cracow and Kazimierz in Pre-Partition 

Poland" in Kroke-Kazimierz-Cracow. Studies in the History of Cracow Jewry, (ed.) E. 

Reiner, Tel Aviv, pp. 69-88 (Hebrew). 

2002 

24."Attitudes towards the Jews and Catholic identity in eighteenth-century Poland", 

in: Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe, (St Andrews Studies in Reformation 

History) eds, M.Crăciun,O.Ghitta & G.Mordock, Ashgate ,pp.181-193. (English) 

2008 

25. "Debts, Communal", “Leaseholding”, "Servants", " Trakai", "Troki, Yitshak ben 

Avraham", map to “Councils” by A. Teller, YIVO Encyclopaedia of Jews in Eastern 

Europe, ed. G. D. Hundert, New Haven, vol. 1, pp. 353, 399-400, 1001-1003, vol. 2, 

pp. 1692-1693, 1897-1898, 1906 (English). 

Forthcoming 

26. “Future Russian Jews in the Eastern Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian 

Commonwealth”, in A History of the Jews in Russia. Part 1: The Middle Ages, ed. I. 

Bartal and A. Kulik, Jerusalem, 23 pp. (Hebrew and Russian). 

27. “The Orthodox Church and the Jews in the Eastern Territories of Polish- 

Lithuanian Commonwealth”, in A History of the Jews in Russia. Part 1: The Middle 

Ages, ed. I. Bartal and A. Kulik, Jerusalem, 16 pp. (Hebrew and Russian). 

28. “The Jewish Presence in Russia in the 16 th -18 th Centuries”, in A History of the 

Jews in Russia. Part 1: The Middle Ages, ed. I. Bartal and A. Kulik, Jerusalem, 24 pp. 

(Hebrew and Russian). 

29. ”Erotic Attraction and Sexual Intercourse between Jews and Christians in the 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – Between Fusion and Alianation”in Religious 

Symbols as Means of Communication. Stuctures of power and social interaction in 

multiconfessional Poland-Lithuania, ed. Y. Kleinmann, Leipzig, 20 pp. (English). 

Reviews 

1993 

30. Review of M. J. Rosman, "The Lords' Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the 

Polish-Lithuanian Republic during the 18th Century", Cambridge (Mass.), 1990, Galed 

13, pp. 181-183 (Hebrew). 

1996 

31. Review of A. Każiemerczyk, "Sejmy i sejmiki szlacheckie wobec żydów w 

drugiej połowie XVII wieku", Warszawa, 1994, Zion 61, pp. 121-124 (Hebrew). 

32. Review of A. Każiemerczyk, "Sejmy i sejmiki szlacheckie wobec żydów w 

drugiej połowie XVII wieku", Warszawa, 1994, Kwartalnik Historyczny103, pp.104- 

106 (Polish). 

33. Review of A. Leszczyński, "Sejm żydów korony 1623-1764" Warszawa, 1994, 

Kwartalnik Historyczny 103, pp.97-99 (Polish). 

1997 

34. Review of P. Fiałkowski, "Wybór tekstów źródłowych XI-XVIII wiek" (Dzieje 

żydów w Polsce), Warszawa, Polin 10, pp. 364-367 (English). 

35. Review of A. Leszczyński, "Sejm Żydów korony 1623-1764" Warszawa, 1994, 

Gal Ed 15, pp. 247-251 (Hebrew). 

2004

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36. Review of I. Bartal and I. Gutman (eds.), "Kiyum veshever: yehudei polin 

ledoroteihem (The Broken Chain: Polish Jewry through the Ages)", vol. 2, "Hevrah, 

tarbut, leumiyut (Society, Culture, Nationalism)”, The Zalman Shazar Center, 

Jerusalem, 2001, Dark Times, Dire Decisions. Jews and Communism (Studies in 

Contemporary Jewry 20), eds. J. Frankel and D. Diner, pp. 332-334 (English). 

2005 

37. Review of Gminy żydowskie w dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Wybór tekstów 

źródłowych. Opracowanie i tłumaczenie Anna Michałowska. Wydawnictwo 

Akademickie Dialog, Warszawa, 2003, Jewish History Quarterly 213 , pp.101-104 

(English). 

38. Review of A. Teller, Hayim beTsavta: HaRova haYehudi shel Poznan baMahatsit 

haRishonah shel haMe’ah ha-17 (Living Together, the Jewish Quarter of Poznań of 

the First Half of the Seventeenth Century), Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2003. VIII+134 

pp; facsimiles, Gal-Ed, pp. 121-123 (English). 

2008 

39. Review of A. Teller, Money, Power, and Influence. The Jews of the Radziwill 

Estates in Eighteenth Century Lithuania, Jerusalem, 2006, 289 pp., Zion 73, 2008, pp. 

223-224 (Hebrew).

Dear All, 

I do intend to take part in the program “Cultural Archaeology of Jews and Slavs: 

Medieval and Early Modern Judeo-Slavic Interaction and Cross-Fertilization” at the 

Institute for Advanced Studies in March-August, 2011. 

Professor Dan D.Y. Shapira 

Department of Near Eastern Studies 

Faculty of Jewish Studies 

Bar-Ilan University 

Ramat Gan 52900 

Israel 

tel.: 972-50-682-3879 

My personal scholarly achievements in the fields relevant for the group are the cleansing 

of the Early Jewish History in Eastern Europe of the myths, important contributions to 

the Khazar and Eastern-European Karaite Studies, meticulous work on philological 

aspects of some Early Slavic texts; important contributions to the Eastern (Iranian and 

Turkic) aspects of the Early Slavic and Old Rus’ian and of Yiddish; works relevant for 

the study of minority groups in Early-Medieaval Eastern Europe. 

“Nynešneje sostojanije pripisok rukopisej Pervoj Kollekcii Firkoviča", Proceedings of 

the 11th International Conference on Jewish Studies, Part 1, Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 

[Russian] / “The Present State of Some Colophons and Marginalia on the Bible 

Manuscripts in the First Firkowicz Collection", SEFER International Conference, Vol. 1, 

Moscow 2004, pp. 102-130 [Russian] 

"Indeed Ancestral Tombs? – Historical Data and their Modification in the Tombstone 

Inscriptions of Abraham Firkowicz", Pe’amim 98-99 (Winter-Spring 2004), pp. 261- 

318 

98-99 

2004) / תשס"ד),‏ 261-317 

‏"האמנם קברי אבות?‏ נתונים היסטוריים ועיבודם בכתובות המצבות של אברהם פירקוביץ",‏ פעמים 

עמ'‏ 

"Iazuqaiia, Zoroastrians, Manichaeans, Jews and Other Heretics in Mandaean Texts", 

Le Muséon 117:3-4 (2004), pp. 243-280 

D. Shapira & D. Vasyutinsky, "New Samaritan Findings in the Ukrainian National 

Library", Hadshot ha-Shomronim 11-15 (2005), pp. 914-915 (Hebrew) 

' 

914-915 

11-15 

D. Vasyutinski & D. D.Y. Shapira, "A Newly Found Collection of Samaritan 

manuscripts in the V. Vernadsky Ukrainian National Library in Kiev", Judea and 

Samaria Research Studies, 15 (Ariel 2006), pp. 221-226 

כתבי היד השומרוניים בספריית ג ורנאדסקי,‏ קיוב",‏ חדשות השומרונים ‏"ד'‏ וסיוטינסקי וד'‏ ד"י שפירא , 

‏(תשס"ה),‏ עמ'‏ 

דריה וסיוטינסקי ודן ד"י שפירא,‏ ‏"אוסף חדש שנמצא בקייב:‏ הערות לקורות חקר השומרונים במאה ה-‏‎19‎‏",‏ 

מחקרי יהודה ושומרון טו ‏(תשס"ו עמ'‏ 

226-221 

,(2006 /

"A Jewish Pan-Turkist: Serayah Szapszał's Work Qırım Qaray Türkleri", Acta Orientalia 

Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (58:4) 2005, pp. 349-380 [an earlier version: "A 

Jewish Pan-Turkist: Serayah Szapszal (Şapşaloğlu) and his work Qırım Qaray Türkleri 

(1928) (Judaeo-Türkica XIII)", XIV. Türk Tarihi Kongresi Ankara: 9-13 Eylül 2002, 

Kongreye Sunulan Bildiriler, I. Cilt, Ankara 2005, pp. 187-212] 

"Irano-Slavica. Notes for Iranian, Slavic, Eastern-European ("Russian"), Germanic, 

Turkic and Khazar Studies", AHMEa 14 (2005), pp. 197-230 [Ukrainian Translation: 

IРАНО-СЛАВІКА: Нотатки щодо іранських, слов’янських, східно-європейських 

(«руських»), германських, тюркських та хазарських студій, Ruthenica VI (Kiev 

2007), pp. 7-36] 

"Kak nabljudatel' transformiruet nabljudaemyj objekt: A. Firkovič na Kavkaze v 1840 

g. i v 1849-1850 gg. i ego vlijanie na gorskix jevreev" ["How an Observer Changes the 

Observed: Avraham Firkowicz in the Caucasus, 1840-41 and 1849-50, and His Impact 

on the Mountain Jews"], Judaica Rossica, IV (Moscow 2006), pp. 8-30 

"Armenian and Georgian Sources on the Khazars: A Re-Evaluation", The World of the 

Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International 

Khazar Colloquium, ed. H. Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A. Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 

2007, pp. 307-352 

"Iranian Sources on the Khazars", The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. 

Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium, ed. H. 

Ben-Shammai, P.B. Golden, A. Roná-Tas, Brill, Leiden 2007, pp. 291-306 

"'Tabernacle of Vine': Some (Judaizing?) Features in the Old Georgian Vita of St. Nino", 

Scrinium 2 (2006), pp. 273-306. 

"Stray Notes on Aksum and Himyar", Scrinium 3 (2006), pp. 433-443. 

"Remarks on Avraham Firkowicz and the Hebrew Mejelis 'Document'", Acta Orientalia 


“The Mejelis 'Document' and Tapani Harviainen: On Scholarship, Firkowicz and 

Forgeries”, Omeljan Pritsak Armağanı 

"Beginnings of the Jewish Research on the Mountain Jews", Mountain Jews Between 

Past and Present, ed. by Dan D.Y. Shapira, Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat 

Gan 2008, pp. 62-104 [Hebrew] (in press) 

‏"ראשית המחקר היהודי על יהודי הקווקאז",‏ היהודים ההרריים בין עבר להווה,‏ בעריכת דן שפירא,‏ מכרז 

דהאן,‏ אוניברסיטת בר-אילן,‏ רמת גן תשס"ח,‏ עמ'‏ 

104-62 

The Tombstones of the Cemetery of the Karaite Jews in Çufut-Qaleh (the Crimea). 

Report of the Ben-Zvi Institute Expedition. A Collection of Studies, edited by Dan D.Y.

מצבות בית העלמין של pages] Shapira, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem 2008 [Hebrew; 563 

- 

היהודים הקראים בצ'ופוט-קלעה,‏ קרים,‏ דו"ח משלחת אפיגרפית של מכון בן-צבי קוסץ מחקרים,‏ בעריכת דן 

ד"י שפירא ‏,מכון בן-צבי לחקר קהילות ישראל במזרח של יד יצחק בן-צבי והאוניברסיטה העברית 

בירושלים,‏ ירושלים תשס"ח 

2008 / 

"Khazars and Karaites, Again", Kara Deniz Araştırmaları, (IV/13) (Black Sea Studies 

in memoriam of Omeljan Pritsak (1919-2006), 2007, pp. 43-64 

“Persian, and especially Judeo-Persian, in the Medieval Crimea", Irano-Judaica VI, ed. 

Sh. Shaked & A. Netzer, Jerusalem 2008, pp. 253-289 

"Iconoclasts and Khazars, a Note", Scrinium 4: Patrologia Pacifica. Selected papers 

presented to the Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society 3rd Annual Conference (Nagoya , 

Japan , September 29 – October 1, 2006) and other patristic studies, ed. by V. Baranov 

& B. Lourié ( St. Petersburg , 2008), pp. 341-347 

"Some Notes on the History of the Crimean Jewry from the Ancient Times Until the 

End of the 19 th Century, With Emphasis on the Qrımçaq Jews in the First Half of the 

19th Century", Jews and Slavs 19 (2007), ed. by W. Moskovich and L. Finberg, 

Jerusalem–Kyiv: Hebrew University; [Ukrainian] Institute of Jewish Studies, 2007, pp. 

65-92 

"Notes on Early Jewish History in Eastern and Central Europe: The Rus', Khazar and 

Bulgar Dimensions", Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, 15 (2006/7), pp. 125-157 

"Gleanings on Jews of Greater Iran under the Sasanians According to the Oldest 

Armenian and Georgian Texts", Iran & the Caucasus 12/2 (December / January 2008- 

9), pp. ?? 

"Jews in Khazaria", Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and 

Culture, vol. 3, ed. M. Avrum Ehrlich, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 1097- 

1104 

“Mandaean and quasi-Mandaean Prototypes of some expressions in the Greek Cologne 

Mani Codex: Stray Aramaicist's Notes", Ravenna Iranologist Congress, Roma, pp. 457- 

465 (forthcoming) 

“Jews in Southern Russia since Antiquity Till the Early Middle Ages”, & "Jews in the 

Early Medieval Period in Lands Adjacent to Russia" & "Oriental Jewish Communities 

in the territories on the Russian Empire and the Former SSSR", & “Khazar Legacy in 

Eastern Europe”, History of the Jews in Eastern Europe / Russia, Zalman Shazzar 

Centre (Hebrew)

Jevrei v Severnom Pričernomorje ot Drevnosti do rannego Srednevekovja", Istorija 


"Jevrei v ranneje Srednevekovje v sosednix s Rossijej stranax", Istorija Jevrejev 


"Obščhiny jevrejev Vostoka na territorii Rossijckoj Imperii i Byvšego SSSR", Istorija 


"Xazarskoje nasledije v Vostočnoj Jevrope", Istorija Jevrejev Rossii, Moscow & 

Jerusalem: Gesharim 2008, Vol. I (ed. A. Kulik), pp. 158-178 

Karaites in Eastern Europe in the Last Generations. Proceedings of the Jerusalem 

Karaite Colloquium, Ben-Zvi Institute and the Center for the Study of Polish Jewry and 

its Culture, Jerusalem 2007 

הקראים במזרח אירופה בדורות האחרונים.‏ דברי הכנס הקראי בירושלים,‏ מכון בן-צבי והמרכז לחקר 

יהדות פולין ותרבותה,‏ 

2007 

“Irano-Arabica: Contamination and Popular Etymology. Notes on the Arabic and 

Persian Lexicons (With References to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, Xristianskiy 

Vostok V (XI) 2008 I. Kratschkowski Memorial Volume, ed. by S. Frantzousoff, Sankt- 

Peterburg 2008, pp. 152-183 (forthcoming) 

"Yiddish – Slavic, German or Oriental?", Knaan Volume (forthcoming)

Letter of intent 

To whom it may concern 

I hereby state my intent and express my intense thrill to take active part in the research group 

‘Cultural Archaeology of Jews and Slavs: Medieval and Early Modern Judaeo–Slavic Interaction 

and Cross-Fertilisation’ at the Institute for Advanced Studies in March through August, 2011. 

The time has long been due for an international co-operative effort in this field, which, I am sure, 

may be on the brink to several major break-throughs. It is my sincere belief that the planned 

research group will be operative and, indeed, decisive in this process. 

Alexander I. Pereswetoff-Morath, D.Phil 

associate professor, Lund & Stockholm Universities 

academy research fellow, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities 

Stockholm, February 2008 

Stockholm University, Dept of Slavonic Studies, SE-106 91 Stockholm, email: apm@slav.su.se

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