James Nadel

James Nadel is a PhD student in the History Department of Columbia University, working on Russian-Jewish, Russian Imperial and Soviet history. His research thus far has focused on Yiddish speaking communities throughout the Russian Empire – from Odessa to Vilnius to Baku, Azerbaijan. In 2017, he was a Translation Fellow at the National Yiddish Book Center, where he completed a translation of Abraham Sutzkever's volume of poems, Oasis.

Review

Review of Marina Mogilner’s A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness

With a focus on Russian Jewish race scientists, Mogilner traces how biology informed notions of Jewish difference mobilized by communal organizations and political activists in imperial Russia and the early Soviet period.

Jun 02, 2023

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race

Russia

Soviet Union

Blog

Briv funem Arkhiv: Uriel Weinreich’s Valentine’s Card to his Future Wife, Bina Silverman

James Nadel

In time for Valentine’s Day 2021, James Nadel introduces us to Uriel Weinreich’s 1948 bilingual, multi-page, anti-Valentine’s-Day valentine to his future wife, Bina Silverman.

Feb 12, 2021

Briv funem arkhiv