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Biography
Professor John D. Klier
John D. Klier did his undergraduate and master's work at the University of Notre Dame and completed his PhD at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. He holds the post of Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History at UCL and is Head of the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Professor Klier came to Jewish history through the study of pre-revolutionary Russia when he became aware that virtually no original research had been done on Russian Jewry for most of the twentieth century.
His doctoral dissertation was a study of the process by which the Russian state integrated Jews into the Russian state system, and developed attitudes and assumptions about the Jews. This work was expanded into his first book, RUSSIA GATHERS HER JEWS.
Much of Professor Klier's work has focused on the Jewish Question from the Russian perspective. This is apparent in his edited volume on the pogroms, and also in his study of Russian public opinion, IMPERIAL RUSSIA'S JEWISH QUESTION.
In 1991, Professor Klier was one of the first foreign scholars to carry out in-depth research on the Jews in Soviet archives. (During two earlier, year-long stays during the "Period of Stagnation," Professor Klier was forced to use a cover topic.) He has since worked in archives in Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Minsk. In 1993 Professor Klier was awarded an NEH grant to prepare surveys of Jewish materials in post-Soviet archives. He welcomes archival queries from researchers.
Professor Klier is completing a sequel to his last book, tentatively entitled RUSSIANS, JEWS AND THE CRISIS OF 1881-2. It will explore the nature of pogrom violence in Russia, and the response to the events of 1881-2 by the imperial authorities, as well as by Russian and Jewish society.
Professor Klier has found the archives to be especially useful for the study of Russian-Jewish social history. He has published a number of articles based on this research. He is also doing preliminary research for a study of Jews and military recruitment in the Russian Empire, which will centre on the cantonist battalions.
Professor Klier and his wife, Helen Mingay, have co-authored a popular work, THE SEARCH FOR ANASTASIA: SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF THE LOST ROMANOVS. He makes the somewhat melancholy observation that this work, in the course of three years, has outsold all his scholarly work by ratio of ten to one.
Short Bibliography
RUSSIA GATHERS HER JEWS: THE ORIGINS OF THE JEWISH QUESTION IN RUSSIA (Northern Illinois University Press; DeKalb, 1986).
with S. Lambroza, eds., POGROMS: ANTI-JEWISH VIOLENCE IN MODERN RUSSIAN HISTORY (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 1991).
IMPERIAL RUSSIA'S JEWISH QUESTION, 1855-1881 (Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, 1995).
"Archival Sources for the Study of East European Jewry in Kiev," SOVIET JEWISH AFFAIRS, XXI, 2 (Winter, 1991):39-44.
"'Popular Politics' and the Jewish Question in the Russian Empire, 1881-2."
TRANSACTIONS OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND (1995):155-85.
"State Policy and the Conversion of Jews in Imperial Russia" (Forthcoming, 1998).
"Westjuden: Germany and German Jews through East European Eyes" (Forthcoming, 1998).
"The Dog That Didn't Bark: Antisemitism in Post-Communist Russia," in G. Hosking and Robert Service, eds., RUSSIAN NATIONALISM PAST AND PRESENT (In Press, 1998).
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