Yuri Slezkine

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Yuri Slezkine ( Russian Юрий Львович Слёзкин , German Juri Lwowitsch Sljoskin ; born February 7, 1956 in the Soviet Union ) is an American historian , author , translator and university professor . He is currently the Jane K. Sather Professor at the University of California at Berkeley .

Life

Slezkine, who comes from a Jewish family, was trained as a translator at Moscow's Lomonosov University . His first activity abroad was in the Portuguese- speaking Mozambique in the late 1970s . After a stay in Moscow, he went to Lisbon , Portugal in 1982 . The following year he emigrated to the United States , where he received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin .

In his publications Slezkine deals with various aspects of Russian history, with minorities within Russia and around the world, and especially with Judaism in the 20th century.

In 2008 Slezkine was honored with admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

  • Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture , 1993.
  • Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North . Cornell University Press, Ithaka (New York), USA 1994, ISBN 0-8014-2976-5 .
  • As editor with Sheila Fitzpatrick : In the Shadow of the Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2000, ISBN 0-691-01948-7 .
  • Swann's Nose: The Jews and Other Moderns . Chapter 2 of The Jewish Century
    • German by Michael Adrian and Bettina Engels Paradoxe Moderne: Jewish alternatives to the Fin de Siècle . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35091-0 .
  • The Jewish Century . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2004, ISBN 0-691-11995-3 .
    • German by Michael Adrian: The Jewish Century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-36290-7 .
  • The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution . Princeton University Press, 2017
    • The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution . Translation from English Helmut Dierlamm, Norbert Juraschitz, Karin Schuler. Munich: Carl Hanser, 2018

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SURNAME Slezkine, Yuri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, author, translator, and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Soviet Union