Faculty

Stephen M. Berk

Henry and Sally Schaffer Professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies
(Ph.D. Columbia University)

Contact Information:
[Phone] (518) 388-6075
[Fax] (518) 388-6422
berks@union.edu

 

  Professor Berk
 

Teaching and Research Interests

 

Selected Publications

I am currently working on a new project dealing with the Jewish involvement in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the years 1954-1965.

Cover ImageYear of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-1882, Vol. 11

by Stephen M. Berk
Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
August 1985

This book examines the events leading to the massive pogroms against Russian Jewry between 1881-82, crystallizes the Russian and Jewish responses to them, and assesses the impact pogroms had on the course of Russian and American Jewish history and on the Jewish national movement.

"The Russian Revolutionary Movement and the Pogroms of 1881-1882," Soviet Jewish Affairs, 7, No. 2, (1977): 22-38

"The `Class-Tragedy' of Izhevsk: Working-Class Opposition to Bolshevism in 1918," Russian History, II, 2 (1975): 176-190

 



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