FORUM, the Russian American Jewish Weekly Prints Feature Story on Contest for the Best Story about the Russian Emigration
Monday, 30 June 2008
"Конкурс на лучщий рассказ о нашей эмиграции"
Writing in Forum, the newspaper of the Russian American Jewish emigration, Alexei Bayer outlines the history of the contest for best story about the emigrant experience, sponsored by HIAS and the Harriman Institute, tracing its origins to June 1991, when Rebecca Kobrin, now Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, went to Israel as a volunteer to help the new emigres from the Soviet Union. The story, in fact, might be traced further back, to the emigration of Rebecca's forebears from the Russian Empire.
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New Book by Valentina Izmirlieva Is Latest Addition to "Studies of the Harriman Institute"
Monday, 16 June 2008
The Harriman Institute Takes Great Pleasure in Announcing the Publication of "ALL THE NAMES OF THE LORD. LISTS, MYSTICISM, AND MAGIC" (University of Chicago Press) by Valentina Izmirlieva, newly tenured Associate Professor of Slavic Languages.
"A scintillating combination of historical knowledge, philosophical sophistication, and literary verve... Valentina Izmirlieva has laid bare the classical 'names of God' in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, leading inquiring readers to a veritable feast."
--David Burrell, University of Notre Dame
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On his 70th Birthday, Russian Institute Alumnus Stephen F. Cohen Receives Tributes from Gorbachev and Yevtushenko
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
In connection with his "Jubilee" birthday later this year, thirty-five of Cohen's Russian friends and colleagues contributed to a book in his honor, Stiven Koen i Sovetskii Soiuz/Rossiia (Stephen Cohen and the Soviet Union/Russia), which has just been published in Moscow. Contributors include former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who wrote the foreword, and the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Here are their tributes, translated by George Shriver.
Stephen Cohen is Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University and a contributing editor to the NATION.
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