Back to the Post-Communist Motherlands: Reflections of a Jerusalemite Historian

This article presents some of the personal observations of a veteran Israeli scholar whose long-years' encounters with the 'real' as well as the 'imagined' eastern Europe have shaped his historical research. As an Israeli-born historian of Polish-Ukrainian origin, (the so-ca...

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Main Author: Bartal, Israel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Donner Institute 2020
In: Nordisk judaistik
Year: 2020, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-64
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