With a focus on Russian Jewish race scientists, Mogilner traces how biology informed notions of Jewish difference mobilized by communal organizations and political activists in imperial Russia and the early Soviet period.
Created out of necessity as a response to Tsarist repression, Hillis argues that circles of Russian émigré groups, or “colonies,” represented a crucial space in the development of Russian politics.
Masha Gessen’s new book explores the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan through the story of David Bergelson and Simon Dubnow, whose thought and writing influenced its development.