The Imaginary Jew of Vasily Rozanov

3 March, 2024
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Мнимый еврей Василия Розанова

Lecture by Mikhail Edelstein .

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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 co-authored the books The Economic Activity of the Russian Orthodox Church and Its Shadow Component (2000), Resistance of Soviet POWs in Nazi Concentration Camps and Extermination Centers: History and Memory (2022) 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 writes as a political columnist for an independent Russian-language online-edition Vot-Tak.tv.