Nathans Wins A Second Prize for Recent Book
March 23, 2004
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Associate professor of history Benjamin Nathans has received the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for his book, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Last year, the book, which reinterprets the history of the Jewish encounter with tsarist Russia in the 50 years before the Revolution of 1917, also received the top prize in the history category of the fifth annual Koret Jewish Book Awards.
Professor Nathans teaches and writes about society, politics, and ethnic relations in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as Russian intellectual history and modern Jewish history. He is a member of the Jewish Studies Program, the graduate group in comparative literature, and the graduate group in Germanic languages and literatures.