Goncharok, Mikhail Markovich

In 1984 he graduated from the History Department of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. Herzen (now - Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen ).

Since 1990, lives in Israel . Researcher, Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem . A specialist in the history of the Jewish anarchist movement ^[1] (the so-called Yiddish anarchism). He is the author of three monographs (in Russian) and brochures (in Yiddish ) on this subject, numerous publications in academic journals and articles in the press of Israel, Russia, and the USA. He writes in Russian, Hebrew , Yiddish . Articles have been translated into a number of European languages. The first journalistic articles published in 1994-95. in the newspaper Nedelya (weekly, Jerusalem, editor - Alexander Razgon, ch. editor - Yosef Mendelevich) , and in the magazine Slovo (Jerusalem, editor - Alexander Razgon).

Laureate of the Jerusalem Olive Prize in the category of historical studies (2006).

In 2007, Boston published a collection of prose “Notes of the Marginal”, in 2014 in Moscow - the second (“Hamsa for a childhood friend”). It is also published in literary magazines and almanacs of Israel, Russia, the USA (“Lights of the capital”, “ Jerusalem Journal ”, “ Horizon” , etc.). Since 2007 - a member of the Commonwealth of Russian-speaking writers of Israel "Capital", since 2008 - a member of the International Federation of Russian Writers , since 2012 - a member of the IFRW Council.

Since 2016 - Member of the Editorial Board of the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia .

• Century of will. Russian anarchism and Jews (XIX — XX centuries) / Jerusalem, “Mishmeret Shalom”, 1996.
• Tsu der geshikhte fun der anarkhistisher prese oyf yidish (“On the History of the Anarchist Press in Yiddish”) / Yerusholayim, “Problemen”, 1997.
• Essays on the History of the Jewish Anarchist Movement (Yiddish Anarchism) / Jerusalem, "Problematic", 1998.
• Ashes of our bonfires. Essays on the History of the Jewish Anarchist Movement (Yiddish Anarchism) / Jerusalem, "Problematic", 2002.
• Notes of the Marginal (storybook) / Boston, M Graphics Publishing, 2007.
• Hamsa for a childhood friend (short stories) / Moscow, Bulat, 2014.
• Ashes of our bonfires. Essays on the History of the Jewish Anarchist Movement (Yiddish Anarchism) (Second Edition, amended and supplemented) / M., “Common place”, 2017.

• Anarchism - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
• Monographs, articles, translations, prose on Jewniverse Yiddish Shtetl
• Marginal Notes on Mgraphics Publishing (Boston)

• "From the Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist" on the website of Russian Socialists and Anarchists after October 1917
• From the history of the press of the Jewish anarchist movement // Bulletin of the Jewish University in Moscow, No. 2 (18). Moscow - Jerusalem, 1998, p. 135-156.
• “Anarchism and the National Question” (On the correspondence of P. A. Kropotkin and M. Yarblum. Anarcho-Zionism) - report at the international Kropotkin conference (December 9-11, 2002, St. Petersburg) // Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin and problems modeling of historical and cultural development of civilization. Materials of the international scientific conference. St. Petersburg, Solart, 2005, p. 378-400.
• Rudolf Rocker and publications about M. A. Bakunin in the journal Germinal (London) // A Man of Three Centuries (Pryamukhinsky Readings - 2014, an international conference dedicated to the 200th birthday of M. A. Bakunin). M .: Printing house “Futuris”, 2015. S.240 - 249. (unavailable link)
• On the relationship of some aspects of Judaism and anarchism
• To the question of the relationship of some aspects of Judaism and anarchism in the yearbook Zeitshrift (Chasopis). Minsk - Vilnius, 2011 t. 6 (1), p. 8-22 , review of the release of the annual Forverts Newspaper
• Anarchism and Zionism: a debate about Jewish national identity // Zeitshrift (Chasopis). Minsk - Vilnius, 2016, t. 10 (5), p. 87-109.
• From the History of the Jewish (Yiddish) Anarchist Movement in the USA (1880s - 1970s) // Russian Jews in America. Edited by Ernst Salzberg. Book 14. Toronto - St. Petersburg, Hyperion, 2016, p. 49-70.
• Materials for the biographies of writers - activists of the Jewish anarchist movement in North America // Russian Jews in America. Edited by Ernst Salzberg. Book 15. Toronto - St. Petersburg, Hyperion, 2017, p. 9-38.
• “ Visit to the Minotaur ” in the magazine “Horizon”
• Stories in the Jerusalem Journal - No. 31 , No. 38 , No. 44
• Mikhail Kopeliovich about the book " Notes of the Marginal " , "Jerusalem Journal" 2009, No. 32
• Stories in the literary and historical journal "What is Truth?" - No. 17 , No. 18
• Alive and Dead in the weekly online newspaper We Are Here
• Serpentine . Stories in The Seven Arts Magazine, Issue 58, December 2014
• Macrame . Stories in The Seven Arts Magazine, No. 68, November 2015
• Old and new trends. From the notes of madrigal (From the cycle "Literary bridges") . Stories in The Seven Arts Journal, No. 4 (73), April 2016
• Pterodactyl speaking Yiddish . Stories in the Journal of Jewish History, No. 181, January 2015
• From the “Mental Notes” . Stories in the journal Notes on Jewish History, No. 182, February - March 2015
• From an explanatory note . Stories in Jewish Antiquity, No. 2 (85), June 2015
• “ Little Woman ” (about Esther Raziel-Naor) in the journal Notes on Jewish History No. 6 (165) June 2013
• Aba Gordin: Leo the Black - Pavel Dmitrievich Turchaninov (1875-1921). Translation from Yiddish in the magazine "WORKSHOP" , July, 2013
• A rebel from Lithuania (about A. Gordin). "WORKSHOP" , July, 2013
• Aba Ahimeir. Aba Gordin - in the spirit of Kropotkin (translated from Hebrew ). "WORKSHOP" , August, 2013
• Shot Stars in the weekly Internet newspaper We Are Here , in the Forvert newspaper
• Prose in the Open House magazine No. 1 , No. 2 , No. 3 , No. 5 , No. 9 , No. 11-12
• The story of Homo floresiensis in the magazine "The Seagull"

1. ↑ Anarchism - an article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia