Vladimir Levin | |
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| Born | October 4, 1971 St. Petersburg |
| Citizenship | Israel |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Occupation(s) | historian, art historian |
| Organization | Center for Jewish Art |
Vladimir Levin is an Israeli historian specializing in east European Jewish history. Since 2011, he has been a director of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Levin's research focuses on modern east European social history and synagogues. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a student of Jonathan Frankel. Levin authored From Revolution to War: Jewish Politics in Russia, 1907–1914, [1] co-authored Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia, [2] and co-edited Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue. [3] Levin has written on social and political aspects of modern Jewish history in Eastern Europe, synagogue architecture and ritual objects, Jewish religious Orthodoxy, Jewish-Muslim relations, Jews and Jewish politics in Lithuania, etc. (see the list of selected publications below). Currently, he is preparing for publication his new book Orthodox, Socialist, Liberal: Jewish Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century Russian Empire and working on another book, which explores Jewish heritage in Siberia, together with Anna Berezin. [4]
Since 1993, Levin has been working at the Center for Jewish Art, which aims to research and document Jewish art and material culture across the globe. Since 2011, Levin has been serving as the Center's director. [5] After assuming the position, Levin launched the project on digitalization of all the documentation the Center possessed, which resulted in the creation of the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art. [6] For now, the Index includes more than 550 thousand images and it is constantly growing due to the Center's own research trips [7] and due to collaboration with other research institutions.
Recently, Levin has launched another project entitled Holocaust Memorial Monuments in collaboration with the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, University of Miami. The project aims "to collect and preserve digital documentation about Holocaust memorial monuments, including standardized mapping, photography, description, and historical research." [8] [9]
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