Vladimir Levin

Publications related to the Bund

Articles

  • “The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction” in: Stefani Hoffman and Ezra Mendelsohn (eds.), The Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s Jews (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), pp. 111-127.

Others

  • A chapter on Jewish Socialist parties in 1907-1914 in my Ph.D. dissertation (unpublished): “Jewish Politics in the Russian Empire during the Period of Reaction, 1907-1914.” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007. Summa cum Laude. Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Frankel

Reviews

  • “Interrelations between the Bund and the Polish Socialist Party Reconsidered (Review on Joshua D. Zimmerman, Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality)” in: Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, issue 1 (58), 2007, pp. 114-117.
  • “Jewish Press in Vilna – Wilno (Review on Susanne Martin-Finnis, Vilna as a Centre of the Modern Jewish Press, 1840-1928: Aspirations, Challenges, and Progress),” in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 1-2 (54-55), 2005, pp. 182-184.

Other Publications

Articles

  • “The St. Petersburg Jewish Community and the Capital of the Russian Empire: An Architectural Dialogue,” in: Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies (eds.), Jewish Architecture in Europe: Proceeding of the International Congress in Braunschweig, 8th – 11th October 2007 (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag) – in print.
  • with Ilia Lurie, “Hithavuta shel hapolitika ha’ortodoksit ba’imperiya harusit” [The Rise of Orthodox Politics in the Russian Empire], in: Three-volume collection of articles on Russian Jewry, edited by Israel Bartal, The Zalman Shazar Center – in print.
  • “Die jüdischen Wähler und die Reichsduma” [Jewish Voters and the State Duma], in: Dittmar Dahlmann and Pascal Trees (eds), Von Duma zu Duma. Hundert Jahre Russischer Parlamentarismus – in print.
  • “Complex of Jewish Buildings in St. Petersburg” in: Jewish Art, vol. 25 – in print.
  • “Russkaia architektura na Sviatoi Zemle” [Russian Architecture in the Holy Land] in Proceedings of the International Conference “Jerusalem in the Russian Spiritual Tradition” – in print (meantime published in ricolor.org/russia/ric/pd/18/).
  • “Verbreitung jüdischer Zeitschriften in Rußland: Sprache versus Geographie” [Subscription on Jewish Periodicals in Russia: Language versus Geography] in: Susanne Marten-Finnis & Markus Winkler (Hg.), Die jüdische Presse im europäischen Kontext, 1686-1990 (Bremen, 2006), pp. 101-119.
  • “Politics at the Crossroads – Jewish Parties and the Second Duma Elections 1907” in: Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur, vol. 2 (2004), pp. 129-146.
  • “Russian Jewry and the Duma Elections, 1906-1907” in: Jews and Slavs, vol. 7 (Jerusalem-Kyiv, 2000): Jews and Eastern Slavs, Essays on Intercultural Relations, pp. 233-264.
  • “Basic Features of the Development of Russian Architecture in the Holy Land” in: Jews and Slavs, vol. 6 (Jerusalem-Ljubljana, 1999): Jerusalem in Slavic Culture, pp. 351-371.
  • “Ocherk istorii evreiskogo shkol'nogo obrazovania v dorevolutsionnom Peterburge” [Essay on the History of Jewish School Education in St. Petersburg before the Revolution] in: Evreiskaia Shkola (St. Petersburg), 1993, Jan.-March, pp. 74-86.
  • “Istoria dorevoliutsionnykh evreiskikh molitvennykh uchrezhdenii Peterburga” [The History of Jewish Prayer Communities in St. Petersburg before the Revolution] in: Ami – Narod Moi, St. Petersburg, 1993, no. 2(55), no. 3(56).
  • “Istoria stroitel’stva peterburgskoi khoral'noi sinagogi” [The History of the Building of the St. Petersburg Choral Synagogue] in: Ami – Narod Moi, St. Petersburg, 1992, no. 17(46), no. 18(47).

Editing

  • Scholarly editing of the Russian translation of Jonathan Frankel, Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 (Jerusalem-Moscow: “Gesharim,” 2008), 847 pp.
  • Co-Editor (with Benjamin Lukin), Istoricheskii putevoditel’ 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000. 704 pp., 380 ills.
  • Co-editor (with Abraham Torpusman) of: Ephraim Wolf, K istorii ukrainskogo i evreiskogo natsional’nykh dvizhenii do 1917 goda [To the History of the Ukrainian and Jewish National Movements until 1917], Jerusalem, 2000. 222 pp.

Entries in Encyclopedias and Historical Guides

  • “Jews in Poland” in: The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, ABC CLIO, Santa Barbara, USA – in print.
  • “Rivne” in: Gershon David Hundert (ed. in chief), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008), vol. 2, pp. 1566-1567.
  • “Shargorod” (with Benjamin Lukin) in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 10, Jerusalem, 2001, pp. 65-67.
  • “Shklov” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 10, Jerusalem, 2001, pp. 224-227.
  • “Bershad’” (with Ilya Lurie and Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel’ 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 117-144.
  • “Bratslav” (with Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel’ 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 145-186.
  • “Peschanka” (with Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel’ 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [(Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 233-242.
  • “Shpikov” (with Victoria Khiterer and Benjamin Lukin) in: Istoricheskii putevoditel’ 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy, Podolia [(Historical Guide 100 Jewish Shtetls of the Ukraine, Podolia], issue 2, St. Petersburg, 2000, pp. 451-466.
  • “Khelm” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 9, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 763-765.
  • “Kherson” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 9, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 776-777.
  • “Khotin” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 9, Jerusalem, 1999, pp. 914-915.
  • “Selected Bibliography” in: Evreiskie khroniki XVII stoletiia (Epokha Khmel’nitchiny) [Hebrew Chronicles of the 17th Century - The Chmelnitski Epoch], Jerusalem, 1997, pp. 279-287.
  • “Stanislav” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 591-593.
  • “Suvalki” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 639-640.
  • “Ternopol’” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 946-949.
  • “Uzhgorod” in: Kratkaia Evreiskaia Entsiklopedia [The Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian], vol. 8, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 1155-1156.

Reviews

  • “Review on Michael Beizer, Our Heritage: CIS Synagogues in Past and Present,” in: Vestnik Evreiskogo Universiteta 8 (26) (2003), pp. 338-339.
  • “Jewish Life in Odessa and Novorossia in the late 19th Century (Review on Mikhail Polishchuk, Evrei Odessy i Novorossii: Sotsial’no-politicheskaia istoria evreev Odessy i drugikh gorodov Novorossii, 1881-1904),” in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 1 (50), 2003, pp. 209-212.
  • “Jews beyond the Pale (Review on Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia),” in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 1-2 (47-48), 2002, pp. 133-136.
  • “A Search for Stability between Two Russian Revolutions (Review on Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia),” in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 2 (45), 2001, pp. 83-93.
  • “120 Years of Censorship of Jewish Publications in Russia (Review on Dmitrii A. Elyashevich, Pravitel’stvennaia politika i evreiskaia pechat’ v Rossii, 1797-1917: Ocherki istorii tsenzury),” in: Jews in Eastern Europe, issue 2 (42), 2000, pp. 100-105.

CD-ROMs of the Center for Jewish Art

  • The Great Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery in Satanov, Ukraine (in work).
  • The Jewish Community of Schwedt, Germany: Synagogue, Mikveh, Cemetery (2004).
  • The Synagogue in Delmenhorst, Germany (2003).
  • The Great Synagogue in Ostrog, Ukraine (2002).
  • The Cemetery Chapel in Leipzig, Germany (2001).
  • The Cemetery Chapel in Chemnitz, Germany (2000).
  • The Synagogue in Halberstadt, Germany (2000).
  • Synagogues in Belaia Tserkov', Ukraine (1999).
  • Synagogues of Southern Podolia, Ukraine (1999).
  • The Synagogue in Genthin, Germany (1999).