Vladimir Levin (historian)
Israeli historian (born 1971)
Vladimir Levin (Hebrew: ולדימיר לוין) 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.
Work
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, co-authored Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia, and co-edited Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue.
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.
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.
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