The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses

Contributors

263 Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, is currently finishing a book on the Sovietization and Ukrainization of the city of Lviv. Between 2007 and 2010, he served as academic director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv. Harvey Asher received his doctorate from Indiana University. He taught a variety of courses in history and interdisciplinary studies for 35 years at Drury University, a liberal arts school in Springfield, Missouri. His articles on themes in Russian history, U.S. history, and the Holocaust have appeared in the Russian Review, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, the Journal of Genocide Research, the Russian Dictionary, the SHARF Newsletter, Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia, and Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust. He is also the author of The Drury Story Continues, an informal but thorough history of the school, and, most recently, the e-book America—The Owner’s Manual: How Your Country Really Works and How to Keep It Running, based on his blog of the same name at http://americathe ownersmanual.wordpress.com. Karel C. Berkhoff is senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule (2004, 2008); and Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II (2012). Michael David-Fox holds a joint appointment at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History at Georgetown University. An executive and founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in conTriBuTors 264 contributors Russian and Eurasian History, he is the author of Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1921–1929 (1997) and Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to Soviet Russia, 1921–1941 (2011). His next book, Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in the Soviet Union, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Diana Dumitru is associate professor of history at Ion Creangă State University of Moldova. Her first book on Great Britain’s role in the union of the Romanian principalities was published in 2010, and she is currently finishing a book on the relationship between Jews and gentiles in the Soviet Union and Romania between 1918 and 1945. Her articles have appeared in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Yad Vashem Studies, among others. Her World Politics article, “Constructing Interethnic Conflict and Cooperation: Why Some People Harmed Jews and Others Helped Them during the Holocaust in Romania,” received the 2012 Mary Parker Follett Award for the best article or chapter published in the field of politics and history. Zvi Gitelman is professor of political science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has just published Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity (2012). John-Paul Himka is professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. He has coedited, with Joanna Michlic, Bringing the Dark Past to Light: The Reception of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Europe (2013). Currently he is writing a monograph on the participation of Ukrainian nationalists in the Holocaust. Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński’s The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968 (2006); and The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (2013). Vladimir Solonari is associate professor at the Department of History, University of Central Florida. His Purifying the Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi-Allied Romania, 1940–1944 was published in 2010. He is also the author of articles and essays published in Kritika: contributors 265 Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, East European Politics and Societies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and other academic journals and collections of essays. Marina Sorokina is head of the Department for the History of the Russian Diaspora at the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Russia Abroad House in Moscow. She recently edited Rossiiskoe nauchnoe zarubezh´e: Biograficheskii slovar´ (The Russian Scientific Emigration: A Biographical Dictionary [2011]). ...