Yohanan petrovsky-shtern

Sztetl. Rozkwit i upadek żydowskich miasteczek na Kresach Wschodnich (Krakow: Wydawnictwo

Uniwersyteta Jagiellonskiego, 2014). Polish version of The Golden Age Shtetl.

Anty-impers’ka al’ternatyva (Kyiv: KRYTYKA). Authorized Ukrainian version of The Anti-Imperial

Choice, forthcoming.
Evreiskii vopros Leninu (Moscow & Jerusalem: Gesharim—Mosty kultury, 2012). Authorized Russian version

of Lenin’s Jewish Question.

Lenin’s Jewish Question (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010).
The Anti-Imperial Choice: the Making of the Ukrainian Jew (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
Jews in the Russian Army, 1827—1917: Drafted into Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

2008; paperback, 2014).

Evrei v russkoi armii, 1827—1914 (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Publ., 2003)—Book series

Historia Rossica.

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS (*--peer-reviewed venues)

“Jewish Apples and Muslim Orangs in the Russian Basket: Options and Limits of a Comparative Approach,”

Franziska Davis et al., eds., Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

(Goettingen: Vanderhock and Ruprecht, 2015), 15-30.*

“On the Other Side of Despair: Cossacks and Jews in Yuri Kosach's The Day of Rage,” Amelia Glaser, ed.,

Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 2015), 182-196.*

“’Context is Everything.’ Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky,” in Glenn Dynner and François

Guesnet, eds., Warsaw: The Jewish metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 613-616. 
Preface to Ben-Yakov, “In der tzukunft-shtot Edenya,” Judaica Ukrainica, vol. 3 (2014): 231-234 [in

Ukranian]*

“Ha-drama shel Berdichev: Levy Itshak ve-iro,” in Roee Horen, Zvi Mark, eds., Levi Yitshak mi-Berdichev

(Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, forthcoming), a considerably expanded Hebrew version of my chapter previously published in POLIN, vol. 17.*

“Mapping the Field,” Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, no. 1 (2014): 135-157, available in pdf at:

http://kmhj.ukma.edu.ua/article/view/25716
“Pravo na charku: korchmy, shynkari i horilchana viina u shtetli (Volyns’ka, Podil’ska ta Kyivs’ka hubernii,

1790-1840),” Judaica Ukrainica 2 (2013): 58-72, a Ukrainian version of ch. 4 of my Golden Age

Shtetl book, available at

http://judaicaukrainica.ukma.edu.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/JU_2_2013_Petrovsky-Shtern.pdf
“Iak Lenin stav Blankom,” a Ukrainian version of chapter 5 of Lenin’s Jewish Question, published in July,

2013, in an on-line Ukrainian journal HISTORIANS, available at:

http://www.historians.in.ua/index.php/doslidzhennya/789-yokhanan-petrovskyi-shtern-yak-lenin-stav-blankom-iz-knyzhky-yevreiske-pytannia-lenina-chastyna-1
“’Nalezhaty do tykh, koho vbyvaiut’. . . : vnutrishnii vybir Leonida Pervomais’koho,” Judaica Ucrainica

(Kyiv), vol. 1 (2012), 317-405 (revised and authorized Ukrainian translation of chapter 4 of my Anti-Imperial Choice book)

“Jews and the Army: Social and Cultural Aspects,” in Israel Bartal and Ilia Lurie, eds., Istoriia evreev Rossii

(A History of Jews in Russia), in 3 vols. (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2010-2012), 2: 66-84. In Russian and Hebrew.*

“’You Will Find it in the Pharmacy:’ Practical Kabbalah and Natural Medicine in Polish Lithuanian

Commonwealth, 1690-1750,” in Glenn Dynner, ed., Holy Dissent: Jewish & Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011), 13-53.*

“The Enemy of the Humanity: the Anti-Napoleon Paradigm in Russian Imagination and the Genesis of the

Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (an expanded version of the 2005 Russian article), in Esther Webman, ed., The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: a century-old myth (Milton Park, Oxon, and New York: Routledge, 2011), 44-66.
“Slavic-Jewish Contacts in the Realm of Practical Magic and popular Medicine,” two book chapters Israel

Bartal and Alexander Kulik, eds., Istoriia evreev Rossii (A History of Jews in Russia), in 3 vols. (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2010), 1: 453-475. In Russian and Hebrew.*

“Orientalizm i cherta osedlosti: russkii puteshestvennik v mestechke (pervaia chetvert’ 19-go veka), in

Rossiia—Vostok. Kontakt i konflikt mirovozzrenii. Sbornik nauchnykh statei. 2 vols. (St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2009), 2: 295-306 (co-authored with O. Edelman).

“Nikolai I i evreiskaia rekrutchina: novye konteksty,” O. Airapetov et al., Russkii sbornik: issledovaniia po

istorii Rossii, v. 7 (Moscow: Modest Kolerov, 2009), 206-237.*

“An Unlikely Alliance: the 1907 Ukrainian-Jewish electoral coalition,” Nations and Nationalism vol. 15, no. 3

(July, 2009): 483-505 (co-authored with Joshua Shanes).*

“Moshko Imperskii,” Ab Imperio, no. 1 (2009): 115-148.*

“Ba’alei Shem,” “Demons,” “Ukrainian literature,” “Military Service in Russia,” “Yakov Brafman,” five

articles in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), 1: 99-100, 222-223, 401-402, 2: 1170-1174.*

“From the Shtetl with Love: an Episode in Ukrainian-Jewish Literary History,” a book chapter in Jewish

Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen (Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, 2008), 63-98.

“Hasidei de-ara and hasidei de-kokhvaya: Two Trends in Modern Jewish Historiography,” Association of

Jewish Studies Review (AJSR), vol. 32, no. 1 (2008): 141-167.*
“The Marketplace in Balta: Aspects of Economic and Cultural Life,” East European Jewish Affairs, vol. 37, no.

3 (2007): 277-298.*

“Novitnii Moisei: ukrains’ko-ievreis’kyi poet u protsessi stanovlennia,” (A New Moses: a Ukrainian-Jewish

poet in the making; an expanded Ukrainian version of the 2004 English article published in East

European Jewish Affairs), Yehupets, no. 16 (2006): 100-124.
“Mertvye evrei: zametki o priemlemom proshlom,” (“The Dead Jews:” an authorized Russian version of my

essay previously published in 2004 in Ab Imperio), Problemy istorii Holokostu, no. 3 (2006): 66-84.

available on-line at: http://tkuma.dp.ua/images/stories/jurnal/z3.pdf
“Russian Legislation and Jewish Self-Governing Institutions: the case of Kamenets-Podol’sk,” essay,

and “The Minute-book of the Kamnits (Kamenets) Burial Society,” translated and commented edition of the 1798/99 Hebrew document, Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, no. 1 (56) (2006), 107-130.

“’We Are Too Late:’ Shloyme Ansky and his Paradigm of No Return,” Gabriella Safran and Stephen

Zipperstein, eds., The Worlds of Ansky: A Russian-Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 83-102.*

“The Expansion of the Visual: reflections on sixteenth century illuminated Yiddish books,” Jewish History,

vol. 20, no. 2 (2006), 231-241.*

“On Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Middle Path,’” Polin, no. 18 (2005), 381-392.
The Construction of an Improbable Identity: the case of Hryts’ko Kernerenko,” essay; “From the Literary

Legacy of Hryts’ko Kernerenko,” the publication of 1890-1900s Ukrainian literary documents, Ab Imperio, no. 1 (2005), 191-241; 241-255.*

“The Literary and the Historical: Reflections on a Jewish Memoir,” Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR), vol. 95,

no. 1 (2005), 91-99.*

“Vrag roda chelovecheskogo:’ o ‘protokol’noi’ paradigme v russkom obschestvennom soznanii,” (’The Enemy

of the Humanity:’ On the Paradigm of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russian Mentality), in Lev Gudkov, ed., Obraz vraga (The Image of the Enemy) (Moscow: OGI, 2005), 102-126. (Natsia i kul’tura. Novye Issledovania: Rossiia/Russia).

“Ukraine Jewish Culture,” “Moisei Fishbein,” two articles in Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture, ed. by

Glenda Abramson. 2 vols. (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), vol. 1: 270-271; vol. 2: 915-921.

“The Master of an Evil Name: Hillel Ba’al Shem and His Sefer ha-Heshek,” Association of Jewish Studies

Review (AJSR), vol. 28, no. 2 (2004): 217-248.*
“The Drama of Berdichev: Levy Yitshak and His Town,” Polin, no. 17 (2004), 83-95.

“’The Dead Jews:’ A Reflection on Two Models of Useable Past,” Ab Imperio, no. 4 (2004): 193-204.*

“Jews in Ukrainian Thought: Between the 1940s and the 1990s,” The Ukrainian Quarterly vol. LX, nos. 3-4

(Fall-Winter 2004): 231-270.