In Atoning Dyad Andrei A. Orlov explores the eschatological reinterpretation of the Yom Kippur ritual found in the Apocalypse of Abraham where the protagonist and the antagonist of the story are envis
In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy offers a new view of controverisial Silver Age critic Akim Volynsky by presenting him as an influential theater figure and, in his later
"An urban biography, Brody : A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century reconciles 150 years of the town's socioeconomic history with its cultural memory. The first comprehensive study of t
The 24 papers from a September 2009 international conference in Varna, Bulgaria focus on various aspects of Bible translation in the Slavic Glagolithic and Cyrillic traditions beginning in the ninth c
Weisskopf (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) describes how the Jewish people were portrayed in Russian journalistic, literary, poetic, and theatrical texts during the period from the mid-1820s to the be
In The Slavonic Texts of 2 Enoch, Grant Macaskill publishes the manuscript evidence for this important pseudepigraphon in a format that allows synoptic comparison of the variants, along with a critica
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 di
