Dr. Vladimir Levin CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Vladimir Levin CURRICULUM VITAE Address: Home: Neve Yaakov 206/18, Jerusalem 97350, Israel. Tel. 972-2-5857754. Fax 972-2-5400105. Mobile phone: 972-54-479-2496 E-mail: vlevin@mscc.huji.ac.il; vlalevin@gmail.com Personal: Date of birth: 4.10.1971 Place of birth: Leningrad, USSR Date of aliyah: 16.12.1992 Languages: Russian, Hebrew, English, Yiddish, German (reading), Polish (reading), French (reading), Ukrainian (reading). Education: 2007 Ph.D. degree, Summa cum Laude, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ph.D. thesis: Jewish Politics in the Russian Empire during the Period of Reaction, 1907-1914. Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Frankel. 1998 M.A. degree, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. M.A. thesis: Russian Jews and the Three First Dumas: The Elections and the Jewish Question in the Dumas (1906-1912). Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Frankel. The thesis received the Bernard and Naomi Pridan Prize (Institute of the Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem). 1989-1992 Studies in the Jewish University in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). 1988-1992 Studies in the A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogic University of Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Faculty of History. 1

Current Research Projects: 1. Synagogues in Volhynia (Ukraine) a research and publication project of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2. Synagogues in Latvia a research and publication project of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish Museum in Riga. 3. Editor, Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue a research and publication project of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Vilnius Academy of Art and the Center for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews in Vilnius. Scholarships, Fellowships and Prizes in the last years: 2010 The Bezalel, Mordechai and Nessia Narkiss Prize for Excellence in Research on Jewish Art. 2010 Visiting Scholar, Emmy Noether-Forschungsgruppe Wege der Rechtsfindung in ethnischreligiös gemischten Gesellschaften, University of Leipzig. 2007-2009 Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer- Sheva 2008 Ephraim Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Work Experience Since 2011 Deputy director (acting director) of the Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2011 Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2011 Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva. Since 1993 Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University in Jerusalem: historian, archivist, coordinator of the Architectural Section, publications coordinator. During the work at the Center for Jewish Art I participated in the following research projects: mapping synagogues in Europe (ongoing project), Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue (ongoing project), Wooden Synagogues in Lithuania, Documentation of Jewish Ritual Buildings in Brandenburg (Germany), Documentation and computerization of synagogues in Ukraine, Documentation of synagogues and ritual baths in Saxony and Thuringia (Germany), Documentation of synagogues in Czernowitz (Ukraine), Documentation of Jewish Ritual Buildings in Croatia, Documentation of synagogues in Drohobycz (Ukraine), Documentation of synagogues and ritual baths in Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany). 2

2008-2010 Editor in chief, Internet project Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina (www.jewishgalicia.net) a project of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, aiming at collecting and making available the sources on Jewish history and culture in Galicia and Bukovina. In the framework of the project I headed the summer field schools in the Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanisławów) region in 2009 and 2010, which documented Jewish cemeteries, collected oral history and archival materials. 2008-2010 Project Director, Synagogue Paintings in Romanian Moldavia in the 19th and 20th Centuries a research project at the Bar-Ilan University. 1997-1998 Service in the Israel Defense Forces, Medical Forces, Medical Supply Center. 1988 Guide in the A. S. Pushkin Memorial Museum, Leningrad. Papers delivered in conferences: Simon Dubnow s Folkspartey: A Story of a Failure? Simon Dubnow: Life Work and Legacy. International Conference at Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem December 2010. Hebrew University Initiatives in Israel and Ukraine that Aim to Advance Knowledge about Jewish- Ukrainian History and Relations Ukrainian Jewish Encounter: Cultural Interaction, Representation and Memory, Jerusalem, October 2010. Russian Imperial Law versus Jewish Halakhah International conference Religion in the Mirror of Law. Research on Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Leipzig University, Institute for Slavic Studies and Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, L viv, April 2010. Synagogues in the Urban Fabric of Vilnius International Seminar Vilnius World Heritage Site: Values of Jewish Heritage and Its Commemoration, The Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, December 2009. The Synagogue and Its Place in the East European Jewish Society New Voices: First Conference of the young researchers in the field of East-Central Europe, Russia and Eurasia, Cummings Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, Tel Aviv University, November 2009. Jewish Civil Society in Late Tsarist Russia 15 th World Congress of Jewish Studies, World Union of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2009. 3

France on the Map of the Russian-Jewish Political Emigration before 1917 International Colloquium Russian-Jewish Paris, 1881-1991, Centre d études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre européen (EHESS/CNRS, Paris), Centre franco russe de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales (MAE/CNRS, Moscou) and the International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies (Moscow), Paris, November 2008. Jewish and Muslim Politics in the Last Decade of the Tsarist Empire International Conference The Russian Empire and Its Subjects: Criteria and Practice of Identifying the Population of the Empire, Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, September 2008. Muslim and Jewish Politics in the Russian Empire, 1905-1914 International Conference Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: comparisons/contrasts/connections, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, June 2008. The Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society in the System of Voluntary Associations of Russian Jewry International Conference In Search of the Jewish History (100 years of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society), European University at St. Petersburg, June 2008. Methodology of Historical Investigations in the Research of Synagogue Art International Workshop Art and Architecture of Romanian Synagogues, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, February 2008. The St. Petersburg Jewish Community and the Capital of the Russian Empire: an Architectural Dialogue International Congress Jewish Architecture in Europe, Bet Tfila Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, October 2007. Jewish Politics in the Russian Empire, 1907-1914: From Revolution to Organic Work International Conference Jewish Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: From Shtadlanut to Mass Parties, Center for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews & Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius, April 2007. Jewish Parties in the Russian Duma Second International Conference Russian-speaking Jewry in Global Perspective: Power, Politics and Community, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, October 2006. Jewish Voters and the Russian State Duma International Conference Von Duma zu Duma: Hundert Jahre russischer Parlamentarismus, Reinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Abteilung für Osteuropäische Geschichte, September 2006. 4

Russian Architecture in the Holy Land International Conference Jerusalem in the Russian Spiritual Tradition, the Russian Academy of Science, the Pilgrimage Center of the Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, November 2005. Different Visions of Modernity in Confrontation: The Rabbinic Conference of Russian Empire in 1910 Fourteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2005. Jewish Politics at the Period of Reaction, 1907-1914: Jews and the Right Second Session of the International Forum on East European Jewry Jewish History in East Europe: New Perspectives, Vilnius, July 2005. Preventing Pogroms: Different Paradigms in Jewish Politics in Early 20 th -century Russia International Conference Anti-Jewish Violence: Reconceptualizing the Pogrom in European History, 17 th 20 th Century, Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm, May 2005. Architectural Dialog between the Jewish Community of St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg as the Capital of the Russian Empire International Conference Russian-Jewish Cultural Ties in the 20 th Century, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, January 2005. Hasidim Versus Mitnaggedim in Russia Between Two Revolutions International Colloquium Hassidism in Poland: New Perspectives, Centre for the Culture and Languages of the Jews, Wroclaw University, August 2004. Organized Orthodoxy between the First Russian Revolution and the First World War in the Russian Empire International Young Scholars Forum on East European Jewry: Exploring the Borderland The Legacy of East and East Central European Jewry, The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, July 2004. Transitory Institutionalization: The Russian Empire s Rabbinic Conference Annual International Conference From Pre-modern Corporation to Post-modern Pluralism Diasporic Cultures and Institutions of the Jews between Empire and National State, The Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, May 2004. Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction International Conference The Revolution of 1905: A Turning Point in Jewish History? the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2004. End of the Party-ness in the Jewish Politics in Russia in 1907 Research Group Between Nations and Empires: Comparative Perspectives on Eastern European Jewry in Russian, Hapsburg and German Lands, The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 2004. Is There Jewish Architecture? Institute for History of Architecture, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, October 2003. 5

Jewish Periodicals in Russia: Geographical Distribution of Subscribers The Simon Dubnov Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, October 2003. Subscription of Jewish Periodicals in Russia: Geography versus Language International Interdisciplinary Conference The Jewish Press Research in Progress: A European Perspective, The Queen s University of Belfast, May 2003. Russian Jewry and the Elections to the State Duma, 1906-1907 First International Conference for Postgraduate Students in Jewish Studies, University College London, September 2000. The Politico-Ideological Significance of Russian Architecture in Israel The Second World Congress on Interaction of Cultures Jerusalem in Slavic Cultures and Religious Traditions, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 1996. Russian Pilgrims to the Holy Land The 28 th Conference on Jewish Art Pilgrimage in Art and Architecture, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, April 1996. 6

Dr. Vladimir Levin LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Books: [From Hope מתקוה ליאוש: הפוליטיקה היהודית באימפריה הרוסית בעידן הריאקציה, 1907 1914.1 to Despair: Jewish Politics in the Russian Empire in the Period of Reaction, 1907 1914] (temporary title). Accepted for publication by the Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem. [Russia s Jews during יהודי רוסיה בשלהי תקופת האימפריה ובימי מלחמת האזרחים, 1900 1921.2 the Late Imperial Period and the Civil War, 1900 1921], Unit 1 at the course Russian Jews in the Twentieth Century, Open University of Israel, 134 pages (in print). Articles and chapters: 3. Vilnius: Synagogues, Batei Midrash and Kloyzn, in Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Giedrė Mickūnaitė and Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (eds.), Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue, vol. 2 (Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Art Press, in print), pp. 281 351, 141 ills. 4. Socialiniai, ekonominiai, demografiniai bei geografiniai Lietuvos žydų bruožai XIX a. [Social, Economical, Demographic and Geographic Characteristics of Lithuanian Jewry in the Nineteenth Century in: Lietuvos žydai. Istorinė studija [Lithuanian Jews: Historical Study], eds. Vladas Sirutavičius, Darius Staliūnas, Jurgita Verbickienė, Vilnius: baltos lankos (in print). 5. Russian Imperial Law versus Jewish Halakhah in Yvonne Kleinmann & Tracie Wilson (eds.), Religion in the Mirror of Law: Eastern European Perspectives from the Early Modern Period till 1939 (Max Planck-Institute for European Legal History series, Klostermann publishing house, Frankfurt/Main, in print). [ The Jewish Street in the Russian empire הרחוב היהודי" באימפריה הרוסית לקראת " 1914 6. before 1914], in Israel Bartal and Michael Beizer (eds.), The History of the Jews in Russia (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History), vol. 3 (in print). 7. with Ilia Lurie, של הפוליטיקה האורתודוקסית באימפריה הרוסית" "התהוותה [The Rise of Orthodox Politics in the Russian Empire], in Israel Bartal and Ilya Lurie (eds.), The History 7

of the Jews in Russia (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History), vol. 2 (in print). 8. «Еврейская и мусульманская политика в последнее десятилетие царской империи» [Jewish and Muslim politics in the last decade of the Russian empire], in the proceeding of the International Conference The Russian Empire and Its Subjects, Vilnius (in print). 9. Lithuanians in the Jewish Politics of the Late Imperial Period, in Darius Staliūnas and Vladas Sirutavičius (eds.), A Pragmatic Alliance: Jewish-Lithuanian Political Cooperation at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century (Budapest New York: Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 77 118. Israel : [ Knesset כנסת ישראל": המפלגה הפוליטית האורתודוקסית הראשונה באימפריה הרוסית".10 The first Orthodox political party in the Russian empire] in Zion 76 (2011), pp. 29 62. 11. Preventing Pogroms: Patterns in Jewish Politics in Early Twentieth Century Russia in Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir and Israel Bartal (eds.), Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011), pp. 95 110. 12. Synagogues in Lithuania: A Historical Overview, in Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Giedrė Mickūnaitė and Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (eds.), Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue, vol. 1 (Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Art Press, 2010), pp. 17 41. 13. The St. Petersburg Jewish Community and the Capital of the Russian Empire: An Architectural Dialogue, in Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies (eds.), Jewish Architecture in Europe (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2010), pp. 197 217. 14. Orthodox Jewry and the Russian Government: An Attempt at Rapprochement, 1907 1914, East European Jewish Affairs 39, no. 2 (August 2009), pp. 187 204. 15. Die jüdischen Wähler und die Reichsduma [Jewish Voters and the State Duma], in Dittmar Dahlmann and Pascal Trees (eds.), Von Duma zu Duma. Hundert Jahre russischer Parlamentarismus [From Duma to Duma: One Hundred Years of the Russian Parliamentarism] (Bonn: Bonn University Press and V&R unipress, 2009), pp. 155 172. 16. The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction in Stefani Hoffman and Ezra Mendelsohn (eds.), The Revolution of 1905 and Russia s Jews (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), pp. 111 127. 17. «Русская архитектура на Святой Земле» [Russian Architecture in the Holy Land], Православный Палестинский Сборник [Palestine Orthodox Journal], vol. 105 (2007), pp. 115 125 (published also in ricolor.org/russia/ric/pd/18/). 8

18. Verbreitung jüdischer Zeitschriften in Rußland: Sprache versus Geographie [Subscription on Jewish Periodicals in Russia: Language versus Geography] in Susanne Marten-Finnis & Markus Winkler (Hg.), Die jüdische Presse im europäischen Kontext, 1686-1990 [Jewish Press in European Context, 1686-1900] (Bremen: Edition lumière, 2006), pp. 101 119. 19. Politics at the Crossroads Jewish Parties and the Second Duma Elections, 1907, Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, vol. 2 (2004), pp. 129 146. 20. Russian Jewry and the Duma Elections, 1906-1907, Jews and Slavs, vol. 7 (2000): Jews and Eastern Slavs, Essays on Intercultural Relations, pp. 233 264. 21. Basic Features of the Development of Russian Architecture in the Holy Land, Jews and Slavs, vol. 6 (1999): Jerusalem in Slavic Culture, pp. 351 371. 22. «Очерк истории еврейского школьного образования в дореволюционном Петербурге» [Essay on the History of Jewish School Education in St. Petersburg before the Revolution], Еврейская школа [Jewish School] (St. Petersburg), 1993, Jan.-March, pp. 74 86. 23. «История дореволюционных еврейских молитвенных учреждений Петербурга» [The History of Jewish Prayer Houses in St. Petersburg before the Revolution], Ami - Narod Moi, St. Petersburg, 1993, no. 2(55), no. 3(56). 24. «История строительства петербургской Хоральной синагоги» [The History of the Building of the St. Petersburg Choral Synagogue], Ami - Narod Moi, St. Petersburg, 1992, no. 17(46), no. 18(47). Editing: 25. Co-editor (with Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Sergey Kravtsov, Giedrė Mickūnaitė and Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė), Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue. 2 vols. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Art Press, 2010. Vol. 1: 335 pp., 501 illustrations; vol. 2: 444 pp. (in print) 26. Scholarly editing of the Russian translation of Jonathan Frankel, Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917. Jerusalem-Moscow: Gesharim, 2008, 847 pp. 27. Co-Editor (with Benjamin Lukin), Исторический путеводитель 100 еврейских местечк Украины: Подолия [Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine: Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000. 704 pp., 380 ills. 28. Co-editor (with Abraham Torpusman), Ephraim Wolf, К истории украинского и еврейского национальных движений до 1917 года [To the History of the Ukrainian and Jewish National Movements until 1917], Jerusalem, 2000. 222 pp. 9

Entries in Encyclopedias and Historical Guides: 29. State Duma in: Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, ed. Dan Diner (Stuttgart and Weimar: Verglag J.B.MetzlerLeipzig) (in print). 30. Februarevolution [February Revolution] in: Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, ed. Dan Diner (Stuttgart and Weimar: Verglag J.B.MetzlerLeipzig, 2011), vol. 2, pp. 327 330. 31. Chmelnitzki in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, ed. Judith R. Baskin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 102. 32. Pogrom in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, ed. Judith R. Baskin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 487 488. 33. Ukraine in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion, and Culture, ed. Judith R. Baskin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 619 620. 34. Jews in Poland (with Piotr Goldstein) in: The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, ed. Avrum Ehrlich (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, 2009), vol. 3, pp. 982 988. 35. Rivne in: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008), vol. 2, pp. 1566 1567. 36. Shargorod (with Benjamin Lukin) in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 10, Jerusalem, 2001, pp. 65 67. 37. Shklov in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 10, Jerusalem, 2001, pp. 224 227. 38. Bershad (with Ilya Lurie and Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 117 144. 39. Bratslav (with Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 145 186. 40. Peschanka (with Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [(Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 233 242. 41. Shpikov (with Victoria Khiterer and Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [(Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 451 466. 42. Khelm in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 9, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 763 765. 10

43. Kherson in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 9, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 776 777. 44. Khotin in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 9, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 914 915. 45. Selected Bibliography in: Evreiskie khroniki XVII stoletiia (Epokha Khmel nitchiny) [Hebrew Chronicles of the 17th Century - The Chmelnitski Epoch], Jerusalem, 1997, pp. 279 287. 46. Stanislav in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 591 593. 47. Suvalki in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 639 640. 48. Ternopol in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 946 949. 49. Uzhgorod in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 1155 1156. Reviews: 50. Review on Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859 1914 in: Gal-Ed: On the Histroy and Culture of Polish Jewry (in print). 51. Review on Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro i (eds.), Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience in Studies in Contemporary Jewry in: Studies in Contemporary Jewry 25 (2011) Eli Lederhendler (ed.), Ethnicity and Beyond: Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group Demarcation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 164 168. 52. Interrelations between the Bund and the Polish Socialist Party Reconsidered (Review on Joshua D. Zimmerman, Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality) in: Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, issue 1 (58), 2007, pp. 114 117. 53. Jewish Press in Vilna Wilno (Review on Susanne Martin-Finnis, Vilna as a Centre of the Modern Jewish Press, 1840-1928: Aspirations, Challenges, and Progress), in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 1-2 (54-55), 2005, pp. 182 184. 54. Review on Michael Beizer, Our Heritage: CIS Synagogues in Past and Present, in: Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta 8 (26) (2003), pp. 338 339. 55. Jewish Life in Odessa and Novorossia in the late 19 th Century (Review on Mikhail Polishchuk, Evrei Odessy i Novorossii: Sotsial no-politicheskaia istoria evreev Odessy i 11

drugikh gorodov Novorossii, 1881-1904), in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 1 (50), 2003, pp. 209 212. 56. Jews beyond the Pale (Review on Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia), in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 1-2 (47-48), 2002, pp. 133 136. 57. A Search for Stability between Two Russian Revolutions (Review on Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia), in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 2 (45), 2001, pp. 83 93. 58. 120 Years of Censorship of Jewish Publications in Russia (Review on Dmitrii A. Elyashevich, Pravitel stvennaia politika i evreiskaia pechat v Rossii, 1797 1917: Ocherki istorii tsenzury), in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 2 (42), 2000, pp. 100 105. Obituaries: 59. Professor Jonathan Frankel (1935-2008), in: East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 38, No. 3, December 2008, pp. 251 252. 60. with Semion Gol din, «Памяти Йонатана Френкеля» [In memoriam of Jonathan Frankel], in: Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii, Vol. 5 (2008), pp. 347 351. CD-ROMs of the Center for Jewish Art: 61. The Jewish Community of Schwedt, Germany: Synagogue, Mikveh, Cemetery (2004). 62. The Synagogue in Delmenhorst, Germany (2003). 63. The Great Synagogue in Ostrog, Ukraine (2002). 64. The Cemetery Chapel in Leipzig, Germany (2001). 65. The Cemetery Chapel in Chemnitz, Germany (2000). 66. The Synagogue in Halberstadt, Germany (2000). 67. Synagogues in Belaia Tserkov', Ukraine (1999). 68. Synagogues of Southern Podolia, Ukraine (1999). 69. The Synagogue in Genthin, Germany (1999). 12