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Eugene Michael Avrutin

Assistant Professor of History and Russian, East European, and Eurasian

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Areas of Specialization

Modern European Jewish History

Publications

Books

  • Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky’s Ethnographic Expeditions. Ed. Eugene M. Avrutin. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2009.

Book Contributions

  • "Kreshchenye evrei, etnicheskii konflikt, i politika povsednevnoi zhizni v Rossii vo vremia pervoi mirovoi voiny ." Mirovoi krizis 1914-1920 godov i sud’by vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva . Mocow: ROSSPEN, 2005.

Journal Articles

  • Avrutin, Eugene M. "Racial Categories and the Politics of (Jewish) Difference in Late Imperial Russia." Kritika 8.1 (2007): 13-40.
  • Avrutin, Eugene M. "Returning to Judaism after the 1905 Law on Religious Freedom in Tsarist Russia." Slavic Review 65.1 (2006): 90-110.
  • Avrutin, Eugene M. "The Politics of Jewish Legibility: Documentation Practices and Reform during the Reign of Nicholas I." Jewish Social Studies 11.2 (2005): 136-69.
  • Avrutin, Eugene M. "The Power of Documentation: Vital Statistics and Jewish Accommodation in Tsarist Russia." Ab Imperio (2003): 271-300.