Petrovsky-Stern, Yochanan

Yochanan Petrovsky-Stern
Yochanan Petrovsky-Stern
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern ( born Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ; born April 6, 1962 , Kiev ) is a Soviet and American historian , philologist, essayist , translator. Professor of Jewish History at Northwestern University ( Illinois , USA ).

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Biography

Born in Kiev, in the family of a famous philologist Miron Petrovsky , the younger sister is a Russian philologist, a German journalist and writer Katya Petrovskaya (born 1970 ).

In 1984 he graduated from the Romano-Germanic department of the philological faculty of Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University .

In 1988 he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of philological sciences on the topic “The Poetics of Grabriel Garcia Marquez” at Moscow State University .

In 2001, he received a Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University ( Massachusetts ) in modern Jewish history.

He was awarded the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . Visiting Professor at the Spertusov Institute in Chicago .

He taught at the Graduate School of Social Sciences in Paris , as well as in Poland and the Kiev-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Author of monographs and articles.

Known for his work on Jewish history, criticism of the work of A. I. Solzhenitsyn, “ Two hundred years together ” ^[1] .

Translator of compositions by Borges , Ortega-i-Gasset , Leonardo Shashi , Chesterton into Russian.

Selected bibliography

Jews in the Russian army, 1827-1914. - M .: New Literary Review , 2003. - 556 p., [4] p. silt (Historia Rossica) (rec .: [1] )
Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity. - Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press , 2008 .-- 307 p. - ISBN 978-0521515733 .
The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making Of The Ukrainian Jew. - New Haven: Yale University Press , 2008. - 384 p. - ISBN 978-0300137316 .
Lenin's Jewish question. - New Haven: Yale University Press , 2010 .-- xvii, 198 p.: Ill.
Jewish question to Lenin. - M .: Bridges of culture; Jerusalem: Gesharim, 2012. - 288 p.

Notes

↑ Johanan Petrovsky-Stern. The fate of the middle line // " Untouchable stock ". - 2001. - No. 4 (18) .

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[лет200-1] Johanan Petrovsky-Stern. The fate of the middle line // " Untouchable stock ". - 2001. - No. 4 (18) .