Papers by Polly Zavadivker
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 2023
WIth co-author Eliyana Adler, an introduction to a set of articles that examine memorial books in... more WIth co-author Eliyana Adler, an introduction to a set of articles that examine memorial books in comparative and global fashion. The introduction explore how the books analyzed function as memorials, and how these objects of memory illuminate the ways in which diasporic groups have remembered or made their pasts part of the present in the wake of traumatic ruptures. Together, the many points of intersection as well as divergence among the books encourage us to think beyond national or ethnic boundaries about how diasporic communities have memorialized and mourned their former hometowns in words and images.
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Judaic-Slavic Journal, special issue, History of Siberian Jewry, eds. Victoria Gerasimova and Vladimir Levin, , 2022
Во время Первой мировой войны за весну и лето 1915 г. около полумилиона (а по некоторым оценкам, ... more Во время Первой мировой войны за весну и лето 1915 г. около полумилиона (а по некоторым оценкам, до миллиона) еврейских гражданских лиц бежали или были изгнаны русской армией из прифронтовых зон на литовских и польских территориях. В представленной статье рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с идеей переселения еврейских беженцев в Сибирь. Это предложение было высказано лидерами еврейских благотворительных организаций в Петрограде, в частности, экономистом Б. Д. Бруцкусом. Так называемый план Бруцкуса и реакция на него демонстрируют важные особенности. Во-первых, это показывает, что российские еврейские интеллектуалы мыслили в имперской системе координат. Во-вторых, вызванная этим планом негативная реакция сибирских евреев свидетельствует о поразительной гетерегенности еврейского населения России. Наконец, благодаря оппонентам плана обнажились разногласия внутри еврейского национального движения (в основном между сионистами и антисионистами) в отношении вопросов миграции и переселения.
This article examines a plan proposed by Jewish activists in imperial Russia to settle tens of thousands of Jewish refugees in Siberia.
Where as earlier studies of Russian Jewry during World War I focused on the dynamics of state and military persecution, or conversely, the struggle to resist that persecution, this article uses the "Siberian plan" as a lens to explore complex relations between Jewish civil society and the state. The activists who proposed the Siberian plan intended above all to address Jewish collective needs of the moment—the resettlement of refugees—but also envisioned a long-term opportunity to reconstruct and renew Jewish life as part of a post-war imperial state. It was a scheme of organized mass migration that sought to align Jewish interests with the empire’s economic and geo-political aims—in this case, following a centuries-old process that accelerated when the war began to settle and exploit its eastern frontier. In this respect, a study of the long-forgotten and little-known Siberian plan contributes to the recent scholarly “Jewish Imperial Turn,” by showing that assertions of national-collective interests among Russian Jewry during World War I—even as the state and military actively persecuted Jews—actually developed under the "framework of empire” and not in resistance to it.
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Judaic-Slavic Journal: special issue, History of Siberian Jewry, eds. Victoria Gerasimova and Vladimir Levin, 2022
This article [in Russian] examines a little-known plan proposed by Jewish activists in the Russia... more This article [in Russian] examines a little-known plan proposed by Jewish activists in the Russian Empire during World War I to resettle tens of thousands of Jewish refugees in Siberia. The article explores the plan's idealistic nature, relationship to historical reality, and reception among contemporary Jewish activists. Whereas earlier studies of Russian Jewry during World War I have focused on the dynamics of persecution, or conversely, the struggle to resist that persecution, here we focus on the relationship between Jewish civil society and the state. The "Siberian plan" was intended above all to address Jewish collective needs of the moment but it also envisioned a long-term opportunity to reconstruct and renew Jewish life as part of a post-war imperial state. This scheme of organized mass migration also sought to align Jewish interests with the empire’s economic and geo-political aims. Contemporaries compared its explicitly imperial and colonial nature with proposals to organize the settlement of Jews in the Americas and Palestine. In this respect, a study of the long-forgotten and little-known Siberian plan contributes to the recent scholarly “Jewish Imperial Turn,” by showing that assertions of national-collective interests among Russian Jewry during World War I—even as the state and military actively persecuted Jews—developed within a "framework of empire” and not in resistance to it.
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For the volume Pogroms: A Documentary History, eds. Eugene Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad (New York:... more For the volume Pogroms: A Documentary History, eds. Eugene Avrutin and Elissa Bemporad (New York: Oxford University Press), 108-132
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Jewish Social Studies, 2020
This essay treats the phrase “Jewish fever” as a subject of historical inquiry. I aim to disentan... more This essay treats the phrase “Jewish fever” as a subject of historical inquiry. I aim to disentangle perceptions of typhus as a “Jewish problem” from the realities of a wartime epidemic that claimed millions of lives among Jews and non-Jews alike during World War I and the years that followed.
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Transcultural Health Care: A Population Approach: Fifth Edition, eds. Larry D. Purnell and Eric A. Fenkl (New York: Springer Publishing, 2020), 557-588., 2020
Overview of Jewish heritage for cultural competence in nursing care.
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Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2019
This article explores the subject of Jewish aid work in the former Russian Empire Russian Civil W... more This article explores the subject of Jewish aid work in the former Russian Empire Russian Civil War. It considers responses of Jews to the civil war pogroms in the context of Russia’s “continuum of crisis,” or nearly eight continuous years of military conflict and political instability from 1914 to 1921. It argues that Jewish aid organizations during the Russian Civil War relied on people, institutions, and practices established by their predecessors during the First World War. Jewish aid workers during the Russian Civil War looked to their immediate past as they developed tactics and strategies to navigate a period of political chaos and mass violence.
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Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 2014
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Simon Dubnow Yearbook Institute
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Journal of European Studies
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Thesis Chapters by Polly Zavadivker
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Journal of Modern History 92:1, 2020
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Review: Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe
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Translations by Polly Zavadivker
Jewish Quarterly, 2011
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Papers by Polly Zavadivker
This article examines a plan proposed by Jewish activists in imperial Russia to settle tens of thousands of Jewish refugees in Siberia.
Where as earlier studies of Russian Jewry during World War I focused on the dynamics of state and military persecution, or conversely, the struggle to resist that persecution, this article uses the "Siberian plan" as a lens to explore complex relations between Jewish civil society and the state. The activists who proposed the Siberian plan intended above all to address Jewish collective needs of the moment—the resettlement of refugees—but also envisioned a long-term opportunity to reconstruct and renew Jewish life as part of a post-war imperial state. It was a scheme of organized mass migration that sought to align Jewish interests with the empire’s economic and geo-political aims—in this case, following a centuries-old process that accelerated when the war began to settle and exploit its eastern frontier. In this respect, a study of the long-forgotten and little-known Siberian plan contributes to the recent scholarly “Jewish Imperial Turn,” by showing that assertions of national-collective interests among Russian Jewry during World War I—even as the state and military actively persecuted Jews—actually developed under the "framework of empire” and not in resistance to it.
Thesis Chapters by Polly Zavadivker
Book Reviews by Polly Zavadivker
Translations by Polly Zavadivker
This article examines a plan proposed by Jewish activists in imperial Russia to settle tens of thousands of Jewish refugees in Siberia.
Where as earlier studies of Russian Jewry during World War I focused on the dynamics of state and military persecution, or conversely, the struggle to resist that persecution, this article uses the "Siberian plan" as a lens to explore complex relations between Jewish civil society and the state. The activists who proposed the Siberian plan intended above all to address Jewish collective needs of the moment—the resettlement of refugees—but also envisioned a long-term opportunity to reconstruct and renew Jewish life as part of a post-war imperial state. It was a scheme of organized mass migration that sought to align Jewish interests with the empire’s economic and geo-political aims—in this case, following a centuries-old process that accelerated when the war began to settle and exploit its eastern frontier. In this respect, a study of the long-forgotten and little-known Siberian plan contributes to the recent scholarly “Jewish Imperial Turn,” by showing that assertions of national-collective interests among Russian Jewry during World War I—even as the state and military actively persecuted Jews—actually developed under the "framework of empire” and not in resistance to it.