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Publications for Henry Abramson

  • Abramson, H. (2011). Conclusion: Ukrainians, Jews and the Holocaust. Nationalities Papers, 39(3), 391-392. doi:10.1080/00905992.2011.570502

  • Abramson, H. (2010). Holodomor and Holocaust. Holodomor Studies, 2(1), 131-136.

  • Abramson, H. (2007). Two Jews, three opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century. In S. T. Katz (Ed.), The Shtetl: New evaluations (pp. 85-101). New York, NY: New York University. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2006). Reading the Talmud: Developing independence in Gemara learning. fJerusalem, Israel: Feldheim. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2005). Deciphering the ancestral paradigm: A Hasidic court in the Warsaw Ghetto. In Ghettos 1939-1945: New research and perspectives on definition, daily life, and survival (pp. 129-146). Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2005). Double occlusion: Sephardim and the Holocaust. In Z. Zohar (Ed.), Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the golden age of Spain to modern times (pp. 285-299). New York, NY: New York University. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2003). Metaphysical nationality in the Warsaw ghetto: Non-Jews in the wartime writings of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro. In J. D. Zimmerman (Ed.), Contested memories: Poles and Jews during the holocaust and its aftermath (pp. 158-172). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2003). Shouldering the burdens of history: Aspects of the Ukrainian-Jewish encounter since independence. In W. Isajiw (Ed.), Society in transition: Social change in Ukraine in western perspectives. Toronto, Canada: Canadian Scholars Press.

  • Abramson, H. (2003). The end of intimate insularity: New narratives of Jewish history in the post-Soviet era. In T. Hakkaido (Ed.), Construction and deconstruction of national histories in Slavic Eurasia (pp. 97-102). Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University.

  • Abramson, H. (2003). This is the way it was! Textual and iconograpic images of Jews in the Nazi sponsored Ukrainian press of Distrikt Galizien. In R. M. Shapiro (Ed.), Why didn’t the press Shout?: American and international journalism during the holocaust (pp. 533-566). Jersey City, NJ: KTAV Publishing House. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2003). Well – yes, a new historiographical synthesis! A response to Lars Fisher. Revolutionary Russia, 16(2), 94-100. 10.1080/09546540308575773 This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H., & Hannon, C. (2003). Depicting the ambiguous wound: Circumcision in medieval art. In E. W. Mark (Ed.), Brandeis Series On Jewish Women: Convenant of circumcision: New perspectives on an ancient Jewish rite (pp. 98-113). Lebanon, NH: Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2001). Just different: The last Jewish family of Ansonville, Ontario. Canadian Jewish Studies, 9, 155-169. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2001). Studying the Talmud: 400 repetitions and the divine voice. Thought and Action, 17(1), 9-18. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (2000). The esh kodesh of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro: A hasidic treatise on communal trauma from the Holocaust. Transcultural Psychiatry, 37(3), 321-335. doi: 10.1177/136346150003700303 This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (1999). A prayer for the government: Ukrainians and Jews in revolutionary times, 1917-1920. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (1999). The prince in captivity. Reading hasidic discourses from the Warsaw Ghetto as sources for social and intellectual history. Journal of Genocide Research, 1(2), 213-225. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (1996). A ready hatred: Depictions of the Jewish woman in medieval antisemitic art and caricature. Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 62, 1-18. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (1996).  Foreword to the Turei Zahav of Rabbi David ben Shmuel Ha Levi (Volodymyr 1586 L'viv 1667). Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 21(1-2), 97-108.

  • Abramson, H. (1994). Collective memory and collective identity: Jews, Rusyns, during the Holocaust. Carpatho-Rusyn American, 17(3), 8-12.

  • Abramson, H. (1994). Life imitates art imitates life: The Famine, the Holocaust, and Australia's Darville/Demidenko Affair. The Ukrainian Quarterly, 50(4), 353-365.

  • Abramson, H. (1994). A scattering of Amalek: A model for understanding the Ukrainian-Jewish conflict. East European Jewish Affairs, 24(1) 39-47. doi: 10.1080/13501679408577763 This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (1991). Jewish representation in the independent Ukrainian governments of 1917-1920. Slavic Review, 50(3), 542-550. This material can be found here.

  • Abramson, H. (1991). Metropolitan Sheptyts'kyi's hebrew correspondence, 1903. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 15(1/2), 172-176. This material can be found here.