Questions Of Jewish History. 2 volumes

Proceedings of Sefer Center Scholarly Conferences in Jewish Studies

These three volumes comprise the proceedings of the two Annual International Conferences on Jewish Studies organized by the Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer" in 2007 - the «winter» 14th Conference (Moscow, January, 30 - February, 1) and the «summer» 12th Youth Conference (July 9-11).

The first of these conferences, which is the largest and the most significant event in Jewish academic life in the CIS countries and the Baltic States, was organized by "Sefer" cooperation with the:

•   International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization,
•   Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem),
•   American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint),
•   Jewish Agency (Sohnut),
•   Euro-Asian Jewish Congress,
•    Russian Jewish Congress,

•   Center for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews, Vilnius, Lithuania.
The second conference, which is traditionally aimed at the younger generation of researchers, was organized with the support of the

•    AVI CHAI Foundation,
•    Chais Family Foundation,
•    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,

as well as sponsors who have wished to remain anonymous.

Our partnership with some of these organizations was extended to the preparation of the proceedings of both conferences, which resulted in the publication of the three collections of articles, composed according to their subjects. Two first volumes include articles on Jewish history and ethnology, the third one - articles devoted to Jewish thought, literature, art, and an intercultural dialogue.

We are deeply grateful to all our partners for supporting academic Jewish Studies in the former Soviet Union and hope that the present proceedings will be a convincing demonstration of the success of our shared efforts.

For the first time in the many years since "Sefer" was founded and our first annual conference was held, we decided to unite in the proceedings publication the contributions of researchers representing different generations and national schools in order to demonstrate the similarities and differences in their research.

As the new generation of Jewish Studies' researchers in the former Soviet Union continues to grow and expand, we found it possible and advantageous to follow a unified subject-based approach without isolating the articles by the younger researchers in a separate volume. The fact that the editorial board is made up by people of different generations also reflects this new tendency.

We hope that the present proceedings of our two 2007 conferences will give the reader an overview of the main trends, subject matter and level of contemporary research in Jewish history.

Contents

From the Editorial Board.........7
In memoriam of Professor John Doyle Klier......................11
Vladimir Petroukhin   "Khazar Project" in 2000-2006: Results   ......38
Oleg Bubenok   The Khazars and Mutinous Asia..................40
Serguey Kashaev   Researches of Settlement Vyshesteblievskaja-11 in 2006...............58
Natalya Kashovskaya   On One Tombstone from Keppen's "Krymskij Sbornik": a Historiographical Note.........61
Boris Rashkovsky   The Attitude to the Khazars in 10th Century Jewish Sources.........72
Igor Semyonov   To the interpretation of the title "Khazar-Elteber" .. .86
Galina Zelenina   Male and Female Royal Images in Post-Expulsion Sephardic Historiography.........96
Audrey Blanutsa   Kremenets Jews in the Second Half of the 16th Century ...........100
Ivan Monolaty   Toleranzpatent (the Patent of Tolerance) of the Austrian emperor Josef II and the Jewry of Galicia......116
Igor Muratov   Jewish Tombstones as a Historical Source on the History of Jews in Western Ukraine and Moldova......130
Olga Minkina   Maskilim, Kahal and the State Power in Russian Empire at the end of 18th — the First Quarter of the 19th Century — Towards New Interpretations........141
Alexander Bezarov   K.P. Pobedonostsev and the Jewish Question.. .152
Tatyana Khyzhaya   To the Contacts Between the Jews and the Judaiz-ers in the early 19th century in Russia  .......166
Olga Minkina   The Backside of Jerusalem. Petersburg in the Jewish Public Discourse in the First Half of the 19th Century.....182
Boris Guelman   Cantonists: Overcoming the Jewish Pale (on the Example of Sebastopol).......194
Elena Gontcharova   Recent historiography of the Jewish Merchant Class in pre-revolutionary Siberia.......207
Yury Gontcharov   «The Siberian Jerusalem» (the town of Kainsk in XlXth - the beginning of XXth century)....212
Ilya Petchenin   Problems of the Russian national periodical study during the First Russian revolution (the Jewish press as an example) .222
Inna Sorkina Jews and Jewish Question in "Nasha Niva" (1906-1911) newspaper.........241
Maria Vassilevskaya   Jewish Issues in the "Kievskaya Starina" Ukrainian Historian Magazine......253
Ilya Pechenin   "Voschod" Magazine in the End of XIX - Early XX Cent.: Methods of the Audience Revealing......257
Ksenia Gatalskaya Suicides among Jews on Byelorussian territories of the Russian Empire in 1860-1914 (based on data from National Historical Archive of the Republic of Byelorussia)...............292
Volodymyr Lyubchenko (Kiev)    "I Was Fighting for the Happiness and Welfare of the Jewish People", or Did the Assassin of Stolypin Have a Jewish Motivation?.......302
Valery Krestyannikov, Natalia Tereschuk The Sevastopol Jewish Necropolis as a Monument of a Cultural Heritage....312
Maria Tortika   The «Liquidator Principles» of the Bund: the "August Block" and the Dissidence of the Socialist Faction in the State DUMA (1912-1913)........323
Ayana Arkhipetskaya   The education of Jewish woman in nineteenth-century in Russian Imperial....333
Evgenia Pevzner   Petrograd Jewish Social Cultural-Outreach Organizations after the October Revolution.....347
Serguey Zvyagin   The Jews of Mariinsk in 1918-1919....367
Victor Kelner   Russian-Jewish Berlin: Historiography and Research Issues.......370
Alexander Ivanov   The Burden of Propaganda: Representation of the Jewish Agricultural Colonization in the Soviet Photography of 1920s - 30s .. 383
Michael Mitsel   Mukachevo Branch of International Jewish Bourgeois Nationalistic Organization "Joint" as an Object of the Local MGB Operation "Zion"........413
Elena Genina   The Jewish Scientists and Pedagogues of the City of Tomsk, and their Fate in the Period of the Struggle Against Cosmopolitism ............440
Ekaterina Tsybubkaya   Crypto-Judaism on the South-West of the USA: Medieval Marranos Descendants' Identity.....451
Ilya Yablokov   Political Correctness and Actualization of Contemporary Mythology: "Theory of Conspiracy" and Israeli Lobby in the USA........456
Vyacheslav Likhachev   Russian Muslims and Antisemitism: Religious Stereotypes and Political Ideology......465
About the Authors.......492


Contents - Volume 2

From the Editorial Board.............7
In Memoriam of Professor Rashid Muradovich Kaplanov .....12
The Holocaust: Research and Teaching........64
Tatiana Bekker USA Reaction on the Race Discrimination Policy
in the Nazi Germany, 1933-1939.........64
Maria Kutkina Agreement between the Jewish Agency "Sochnut"
and the Third Reich and the causes of its failure..........70
Pavel Polyan Soviet-Jewish Prisoners of War in the Light of the Problematic of the Holocaust's Chronology and Periodicity..........80
Eugene Rosenblat, Serguey Strunets Wave of pogroms. Polish-Jewish relations in Belostok region on the eve
and during first weeks of the Great Patriotic War......96
Gennady Vinnitsa The Nazi policy of the isolation of Jews
and the creation of ghettoes in Eastern Byelorussia.........110
Tamara Vershitskaya Women in the Jewish Partisan Detachments
of Belarus .......131
Irina Mykhalenok The Attitude of UPA members to Jews:
the testimony of witnesses......143
Tatyana Shor Leopold Silberstein (1900-1941)
as a Victim of the Holocaust.
Ethnic Conflicts Study .............167
Inessa Dvuzhilnaya The Course "Holocaust in Academic Music" as recommended for Music High Schools and Colleges......183
Anna Abakunova Xenophobia or Tolerance:
Ukrainian High-School Students' Attitude towards the Holocaust
(Based on Sociological Interrogation)......196
Rudolf Mirsky Anti-Zionism and the Holocaust in Ukraine
(philosophical-political dimension).......212
110 Years of the First Zionist Congress.
125 Years of the First Aliyah..........218
Cyril Aslanov To the problem of the Theodor Herzl's Indifference towards Hebrew: the Reasons and Consequences.......218
Alek Epstein National Movement without common language and territory: on the Uniqueness of the Social-Reform Ideology
of the Jewish Statehood Rebirth...........233
ChaimBen Yakov Zionism in R. Kook's philosophical conception.......252
Igor Nabitovich The Strategy of the Creation of the Jewish State According to the Vision of Ivan Franko (made on the basis
of his review of Theodor Herzl's book "Der Judenstaat").....259
Lilia Kalmina Zionism in Siberia in 1910-1920:
Disputable Issues of History...........267
Alexander Kopyl, Alexander Trygub Activities of Zionist political parties
in southern Ukraine in the 1920s..........277
Emma Shkurko The Zionists in Ufa............284
Victor Gusev The Bund and Political Zionism:
Where to Create the Jewish State? A History of the Issue,
the Realities, and the Lessons of History..........291
Frank Griiner In Search of the Promised Land:
Jewish National Consciousness and the Territorial Ambitions
of the Soviet Jews..........301
Irina Baulina The Dynamics of the Israeli Party System
in early XXI cent.........315
Yakov Faitelson Demographic Trends
in the Land of Israel (1882-2006)...........321
Ethnology. Non-Ashkenazi Jewish Ethnic Groups.........345
Dmitriy Prokhorov To the History of Relations between the Karaite and Jewish Communities in the Taurida province in 19 — early 20 Cent.. 345 Oleg Bely East Caucasian Iranian Speaking Jews ("Tats-Judaists", "Mountain-Jews" or "Joukhours"): the Results of the 2002 General
Census and the Problems of Their Ethno Linguistic Identification.....365
Eugeny Bakkal, Oleg Bely The Karaite enlightener David Markovich Gumush's (1899-1980) scholarly and social correspondence.
Based on his personal archive ........377
Maysarat Musaeva, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov Delivery rites of Daghestan Mountain Jews
(based on the ethnographic field research)........402
Khaybula Magamedsalichov Tolerance as a Factor of Stability
in Mountain Jews'traditional communities......424
Victor Victorin "Joukhours" ("Mountain Jews" or "Tats-Judaists") in ethno-statistics and social life of Russia:
on the results of discussions and general census-2002......430
About the Authors........442