Semion Goldin

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Semion Goldin (born 1967) [1] is an Israeli historian. He is a senior research fellow at the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewry [2] in Israel.

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Career

Goldin is responsible for the programmatic development and administrative aspects of the Nevzlin Center. [3] He received his PhD cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation, published as monograph, focuses on the Russian Army policy towards the Jews during WWI, from 1914 to 1917.

Goldin now teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published several articles on various topics of East European Jewish history in the twentieth century.

Research

Goldin's historical research is mostly focused on the last years of the Russian Empire, and its military's highly destructive and ultimately disastrous persecution of the Jews during WWI.

The specific aspects he researches are:

Goldin's research papers are published in professional publications:

Books

This book represents a new reading of a key moment in the history of East European Jewry, namely the period preceding the collapse of the Russian Empire. Offering a novel analysis of relations between the Russian army and Jews during the First World War, it points to the army and military authorities as the 'gravediggers' of the Jews’ fragile co-existence with the tsarist regime. It focuses on various aspects of the Russian army’s brutal treatment of Jews living in or near the Eastern Front, where three quarters of European Jewry were living when the war began. At the same time, it shows the enormous harm this anti-Jewish campaign wreaked on the Russian empire’s economy, finances, public security, and international status.

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This collection examines various aspects of Jewish migration within, from and to eastern Europe between 1880 and the present. It focuses on not only the wide variety of factors that often influenced the fateful decision to immigrate, but also the personal experience of migration and the critical role of individuals in larger historical processes.

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References

  1. ↑ "Semion Goldin (1967–) | The National Library of Israel". www.nli.org.il.
  2. ↑ "Semion Goldin". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  3. ↑ "Semion Goldin". nevzlincenter.huji.ac.il.
  4. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2022). ""The Jewish Question" and the Political Situation in Russia". The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917. pp. 215–250. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99788-5_8. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  5. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2010). "Jews as cosmopolitans, foreigners, revolutionaries. Three images of the Jew in Polish and Russian nationalist ideology at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". European Review of History: Revue Européenne d'Histoire. 17 (3): 431–444. doi:10.1080/13507486.2010.481941. S2CID   159880813.
  6. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2022). "The Russian Army and the Jews at the Start of the Twentieth Century". The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917. pp. 15–39. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99788-5_2. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  7. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2022). "Army Authority and Activity in the Sphere of Civilian Administration". The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917. pp. 41–72. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99788-5_3. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  8. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2022). "The Russian Army Command and the Negative Stereotype of the Jew". The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917. pp. 73–108. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99788-5_4. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  9. ↑ Goldin, Semion (June 2022). The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917: Libel, Persecution, Reaction. ISBN   978-3-030-99788-5.
  10. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2022). "Soldiers, Officers, and the Jewish Population of the Frontal Zone". The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917. pp. 179–213. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99788-5_7. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  11. ↑ Goldin, Semion (2022). "Deportations of the Jewish Population and Hostage Taking (1914–1915)". The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917. pp. 109–143. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99788-5_5. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  12. ↑ https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/pdf/1914-1918-Online-antisemitism_and_pogromsin_the_military_russian_empire-2014-10-08.pdf
  13. ↑ Goldin, Semion (3 June 2022). The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917: Libel, Persecution, Reaction. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  14. ↑ Goldin, Semion (3 June 2022). The Russian Army and the Jewish Population, 1914–1917: Libel, Persecution, Reaction. ISBN   978-3-030-99787-8.
  15. ↑ Goldin, Semion; Spiro, Mia; Ury, Scott (9 June 2020). Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe. ISBN   978-0-429-59034-4.
  16. ↑ Goldin, Semion; Spiro, Mia; Ury, Scott (30 September 2020). Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe. ISBN   978-0-367-66093-2.
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