Jews in the East European Borderlands Essays in Honor of John D. Klier [Hardcover]

John Doyle Kliers pioneering publications on the relations between Jews and the Russian social orderon topics such as public opinion, governance, conversion, Russification politics, antisemitism, and pogromshave influenced an entire generation of new scholarship. Jews in the East European Borderlands, a collection of essays honoring Kliers life and work, brings together some of the most innovative scholarship in the field. Focusing on the complex, often violent, entanglements between Jews and Russians, historians and literary scholars critically reassess the artifacts of high culture, including Yiddish and Russian prose and poetry, as well as dimensions of daily life, including letter-writing, diaries, the work of philanthropy, photojournalism, and the mass circulation press. This volume . . . is a real bonanza for scholars of Russian-Jewish history. The essays are of high quality overall, and the book may serve as a mirror of what is happening now in the field of Russian-Jewish history and literature. . . . Essays such as these help brand the field as more than merely a subfield of Russian or Jewish history, but as a high-quality discipline in its own right. Jews in the East European Borderlands offers a dazzling cornucopia of pathbreaking scholarship on Russian Jewish history and culture. It is at once a fitting celebration of the life's work of a pioneering scholar and a moving tribute to his enduring influence. Eugene M. Avrutin (PhD University of Michigan) is assistant professor of modern European Jewish history and Tobor family scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010). He and Harriet Murav co-edited, together with Petersburg Judaica, Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expedition (2009). Harriet Murav (PhD Stanford University) is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages anl3=