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Pol­ly Zavadivker

Pol­ly Zavadi­vk­er is Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of His­to­ry and Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware. She is the edi­tor and trans­la­tor of the recent­ly pub­lished The 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front (Indi­ana Uni­ver­si­ty Press). Her work has been pub­lished in jour­nals includ­ing East Euro­pean Jew­ish Affairs, The Simon Dub­now Insti­tute Year­book, Russ­ian Review, and oth­ers. She is cur­rent­ly at work on a man­u­script enti­tled ​“Blood and Ink: Jew­ish Chron­i­clers of Cat­a­stro­phe in Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry Russia.”

On Writ­ing Cat­a­stro­phe: Jew­ish Chron­i­clers of War in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Russia

Jews in the Rub­ble: A Read­ing List of Sovi­et Jew­ish Eye­wit­ness Accounts of World War I

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A Nation of Refugees: Rus­si­a’s Jews in World War I
Pol­ly Zavadivker
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1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front
S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
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Vision­ary Expres­sion­ism: A Zion­ist Art
Alan Kaufman; Polly Zavadivker, ed. and fwd.
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Jews in the Rub­ble: A Read­ing List

Ear­li­er this week, Pol­ly Zavadi­vk­er wrote about S. Ansky, Isaac Babel, and Vasi­ly Grossman’s chron­i­cles of the cat­a­stro­phe of the Russ­ian twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry. She…
Pol­ly Zavadivker
April 20, 2016
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On Writ­ing Cat­a­stro­phe: Jew­ish Chron­i­clers of War in 20th-Cen­tu­ry Russia

Pol­ly Zavadi­vk­er is the edi­tor and trans­la­tor of the recent­ly pub­lished 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front. She is blog­ging…
Pol­ly Zavadivker
April 18, 2016

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