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Papers of the international conference held in April 2009 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Borderlines : Russian and East European Jewish studies

History, culture, and everyday life. The Mariinsko Sergievskii Shelter for Converted Jewish Children in St. Petersburg / Chae Ran Y. Freeze

Yiddish in imperial Russia's civil society / Gennady Estraikh

Ansky in Liozno: "Sins of Youth" and the archival diary / Gabriella Safran

In the evil kingdom of things: Sholem-Aleichem and the writing of everyday life in Jewish literature / Olga Litvak

A paper life: model letters and real letters as a key to Russian-Jewish aspirations at the turn of the twentieth century / Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman

Upheaval, violence, and antisemitism. Violence and the migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer

Uses and abuses: "pogrom" in the Anglo-American imagination, 1881 - 1919 / Sam Johnson

Jews in the East European borderlands. Look! Up there in the sky: it's a vulture, it's a bat . . . It's a Jew. Reflections on antisemitism in late imperial Russia, 1906 - 1914 / Robert Weinberg

Shots in the back: on the origin of the Anti-Jewish pogroms of 1918 - 1921/ Oleg Budnitskii

Between external persecution and national renaissance : Simon Dubnow's lachrymose vision of Russian-Jewish History / Joshua M. Karlip

Soviet Holocaust photography and landscapes of emptiness / David Shneer

Transformed myths in verse: Boris Slutsky's three Holocaust poems and the question of violence / Marat Grinberg.

Jews > Russia > History > 20th century > Congresses.

Jews > Soviet Union > History > Congresses.

Antisemitism > Russia > History > 20th century > Congresses.

Antisemitism > Soviet Union > History > Congresses.

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