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Steven J. Zipperstein

Steven J. Zipperstein, a professor of Jewish history and culture at Stanford University, is the author of, most recently,Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History.

  • The US President Theodore Roosevelt to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia: "Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews." A 1904 lithograph in relation to the first Kishinev pogrom.
    The US President Theodore Roosevelt to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia: "Stop your cruel oppression of the Jews." A 1904 lithograph in relation to the first Kishinev pogrom.
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    Anatomy of a Pogrom

    How the anti-Jewish riot in Kishinev, then the capital of the Bessarabia Governorate in the Russian Empire, unfolded on April 19 and 20, 1903—an excerpt from a new history

    bySteven J. Zipperstein
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    The Quality of Hillel Halkin’s Longing

    A review of Halkin’s ‘Melisande! What are Dreams?’

    bySteven J. Zipperstein
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