Jewishness in Russian Culture ― Within and Without

Jewishness in Russian Culture is devoted to new approaches and methods for the study of Jewish acculturation in Russian literature and its effects. It attempts to redefine criteria and borders of a discipline situated roughly between Judaica Rossica and Rossica Judaica.

Leonid Katsis, PhD (1994), The Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, is Professor at the Russian American Center for Bible and Jewish Studies at The Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). He received his Habilitate Doctorate in Russian Literature from the same institution in 2002. He has authored monographs on Vladimir Maijakovsky (2000, 2004), Jewish themes in Osip Mandelstam (2002), the Beilis trial (2006) among others, and edited with Prof. Helen Tolstoy the collective volume Zhabotinski i Rossiia (Stanford, 2013). Helen Tolstoy is Professor Emerita of Hebrew University. She received an M.A. in English literature in Moscow and a Ph.D. in Russian literature at The Hebrew University, and has been teaching at her alma mater. She authored monographs on Chekhov (2003), Alexei Tolstoy (2006 and 2012), and Akim Volynsky (2012), and edited, with Leonid Katsis, the collective volume Zhabotinski i Rossiia (Stanford, 2013).