The Department of Russian and Slavic Studies (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) invites you to the guest lecture “Yevno Azef, Ilya Ilf, Albert Einstein and Others: The Curious Case of Maria Goryatchkovskaya” (the lecture will be given in Russian) by Mikhail Edelstein

Monday, December 5, 13:00-14:30
Mt. Scopus, Library, Media 32

Mikhail Edelstein (1972), PhD in Russian Literature, Senior Researcher at Moscow State University (till October 2022). He wrote on Vasily Rozanov, Holocaust history and memory and anti-Nazi resistance in concentration camps. Edelstein authored the books The Economic Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church and Its Shadow Component (2000), Sobibor: Chronicle of the Uprising in the Death Camp (2018) and led the editorial team that prepared the multi-volume biographical dictionary Russian Writers: 1800-1917. He was an editor of Lechaim (the leading Jewish magazine in the post-Soviet space) and a political columnist for the independent Russian-language online-edition Vot-Tak.tv.