Jewish Philanthropy and Enlightenment in Late-Tsarist Russia

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments I gratefully acknowledge the financial help I received to write this book from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, the Yad Hanadiv/ Beracha Foundation, the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), and the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism . Tulane University and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, also provided needed support. On the research front, I want to thank the staff of the New York Public Library, especially the Dorot Division, and the head of its Slavonic Division , Edward Kasinec. I also thank the staff of the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg and the staffs of the National Library in St. Petersburg , YIVO, Stanford University, the National Library at Givat Ram, and the Archive of the Jewish People. Generous colleagues Israel Bartal, Shaul Stampfer, Jonathan Frankel, Michael Beizer, Scott Ury, Moshe Naor, Vladimir Levin, Arkady Zeltser, Oleg Budnitsky, Victor Kelner, Olga Belova, and Leonid Katsis provided important advice as I wrote the book. I am also grateful to Antony Polonsky , Seth Wolitz, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Steven Marks, James West, Hugh McLean, Irina Paperno, William Todd, Caryl Emerson, Steven Zipperstein, and Blair Ruble for their help. I also acknowledge the support and friendship of the late John Klier. It is essential to note the profound and generous mentoring I received from William Brumfield, Heinz-Dietrich Löwe, Ezra Mendelsohn, and Hugh McLean. My editors at the University of Washington Press, Michael Duckworth, Marilyn Trueblood, and Amanda Gibson gave me encouragement and advice through production of the book. Despite all the help of these colleagues, any lapses or mistakes are my fault alone. ix ...