Major Publications

2011

Doctoral Thesis

  • M. Beizer, The Jews of Leningrad (Petrograd) in the Inter-War Period. Adviser - Prof. Moredechai Altshuler. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995. Approved – 1996. 568 pp. (In Russian).

    • Books

  • M. Beizer, The Jews of St. Petersburg. Excursions through a Noble Past, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia - New York, 1989. 328 pp.
  • M. Beizer, Jews in Petersburg, Biblioteka Aliya, Jerusalem, 1989 (1991 – second edition). 320 pp. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, The Jews of Leningrad: National Life and Sovietization, 1917-1939, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gishrei Tarbut Association, Jerusalem-Moscow, 1999. 448 pp. (In Russian) Antsiferov Prize of 2000 (St. Petersburg).
  • M. Beizer, Our Legacy: CIS Synagogues, Past and Present, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gishrei Tarbut Association, Jerusalem-Moscow, 2002. 182 pp. (In English and Russian).
  • M. Beizer & M. Mitsel, The American Brother: The "Joint" in Russia, the USSR and the CIS, AJJDC, Jerusalem, 2004. 208 pp. (Photo-Album, In English and Russian).
  • M. Beizer, The Jews of Leningrad: 1917-1939, Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem, 2005. 408 pp. (In Hebrew, revised).

    • Books Edited

  • Know Where We Came From! Historical and Cultural Background of the Immigrants from the Soviet Union, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, 1992. 178 pp. Edited by M. Beizer, excepting the last chapter. (In Hebrew).
  • I. Antropova, Collection of Documents on Jews of the Urals, International Research Center of Russian and East-European Jewry, Edited by M. Beizer & David Raskin, Moscow, 2004. 460 pp. (In Russian).

    • Chapters in Edited Books

  • M. Beizer, “Russia,” The Encyclopedia Judaica Year Book 1990-1991, Jerusalem, 1991, col. 388-394.
  • M. Beizer, “The Petrograd Jewish Community in 1917,” Istoricheskie sud’by evreev v Rossii i v SSSR: Nachalo dialoga, Edited by Mark Kupovetsky & Igor Krupnik, Moscow, 1992, pp. 165-174. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, “Russia,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 328-339.
  • M. Beizer, “Dubnov in St. Petersburg,” A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnov, Edited by Kristi Groberg & Avraham Greenbaum, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998, pp. 83-86.
  • M. Beizer, “Jewish Samizdat in Leningrad in 1980s. Leningrad Jewish Almanac,” Rossiiskii sionizm: istoriya i kultura, Sefer, Moscow, 2002, pp. 292-299. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, "Samuil Efimovich Lubarsky: Portrait of a Deputy Director of the Agro-Joint," Problemy evreiskogo samosoznania, Sefer: Prof. Eugene Weiner in Memoriam, Moscow, 2004, pp. 127-142. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, "The Fight for Aliya. The Otkazniki-Movement during the 1980s: The Example of Leningrad," Menora Yearbook of German-Jewish History, Vol. 15: Russian Jews and Transnational Diaspora, Philo Publishing House, Berlin, 2004, pp. 73-94. (In German).
  • M. Beizer, "The Jews of a Soviet Metropolis in the Interwar Period: The Case of Leningrad," Revolution, Repression, and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience, Editors – Zvi Gitelman & Yaacov Ro'i. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007, pp. 113-130.
  • M. Beizer, "The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee," The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Editor in Chief – Gershon David Hundert. Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2008, pp. 39-44.
  • M. Beizer, "The Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations in Russia The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Editor in Chief – Gershon David Hundert. Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2008. pp. 347-348.
  • M. Beizer, "Assisting the Jews of Poverty and Struggle: A Package Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and of the Israeli "Nativ" for Jews of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," Evreiskaya emigratsiya iz Rossii, 1881-2005. Editor – Oleg Budnitsky. Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2008. pp. 220-240. (In Russian)
  • M. Beizer, "Jews of Struggle: The Jewish National Movement in the USSR, 1967-1989," Jews of Struggle: The Jewish National Movement in the USSR, 1967-1989. Editor – R. Schnold. Beit Hatefutsoth: Tel-Aviv, 2007. pp. 140-110. (For Hebrew version see: pp. 21-39.)
  • M. Beizer, "OZE - The Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, OZE," The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Editor in Chief – Gershon David Hundert. 2010 http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/OZE
  • M. Beizer, "How the Movement Was Funded," The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union, Yaacov Ro'i – Editor, Woodrow Wilson Center Press - Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, pp. 359-391

    • Articles

  • M. Beizer, “The Jewish Preobrazhensky Cemetery, Leningrad,” The Journal of the Academic Proceedings of Soviet Jewry, Vol. 1, # 1, 1986, pp. 25-64.
  • M. Beizer, “The Jews of St. Petersburg,” The Journal of the Academic Proceedings of Soviet Jewry, Vol. 1, # 2, 1988, pp. 156-392.
  • M. Beizer, “The Petrograd Jewish Obschina (Kehila) in 1917,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, # 3 (10), 1989, pp. 5-29.
  • M. Beizer, “New Information on the Life of Izrail Tsinberg,” Soviet Jewish Affairs, Vol. 21, # 2, 1991, pp. 31-38.
  • A. Greenbaum & M. Beizer, “Yehiel Ravrebe, Jewish Poet and Scholar,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, # 1 (17), 1992, pp. 27-36.
  • M. Beizer, “Confiscation of Matzah by the KGB, 1975,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, # 3 (19), 1992, pp. 43-45.
  • M. Beizer & V. Izmozik, “Dzerzhinskii's Attitude toward Zionism,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 1 (23), 1994, pp. 64-70.
  • M. Beizer, “An Unsent Letter from Simon Dubnow to Lenin,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 2 (24), 1994, pp. 49-51.
  • M. Beizer, “The Liquidation of the Remnants of Jewish Life in Leningrad in the Late 1930s,” Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Vol. 3, 1994, pp. 45-52.
  • M. Beizer, “The Leningrad Jewish Religious Community: From the NEP through Its Liquidation,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 3 (28), 1995, pp. 16-42.
  • M. Beizer, ”Zionist Youth Movement in Post-October Petrograd-Leningrad,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 2 (33), 1997, pp. 7-31.
  • M. Beizer, “LenOZET- the Leningrad Branch of the Society for Settling Jews on the Land, 1926-1938,” Shvut, # 5 (21), 1997, pp. 96-122.
  • M. Beizer & A. Zeltser, “Hashomer Hatsa’ir in Kalinin, 1934,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 3 (34), 1997, pp. 51-72.
  • M. Beizer, “Anti-Semitism in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1917-1930,” East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 29, # 1-2, 1999, pp. 5-28.
  • M. Beizer, “The Destruction of the Jewish Religious Life in Leningrad, 1929-1939,” Shvut, # 8 (24), 1999, pp. 58-86.
  • M. Beizer, “Religious Reform: An Option for the Jews of Russia in the First Quarter of the 20th Century? Example of St. Petersburg-Leningrad,” Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B. History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, 2000, pp. 199*-208*.
  • M. Beizer, “’Tevye the Milkman’ as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution, or the Two Worlds of Shalom Aleichem,” Vestnik Evreiskogo universiteta, # 4, 2000, pp. 87-100. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer & A. Karasev, "A Debate about a Congress of Jewish Religious Communities in the USSR, 1925-1926," Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, # 1 (50) 2003, pp. 138-175.
  • M. Beizer, "Who Murdered Professor Israel Friedlaender and Rabbi Bernard Cantor: The Truth Rediscovered," American Jewish Archives Journal, Vol. 55, # 1, 2003, pp. 63-113. (For the Russian version see: Diaspory, #2 (2005), pp. 176-206.)
  • M. Beizer, "Samuil Lubarsky: Portrait of an Outstanding Agronomist," East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 34, # 1, summer 2004, pp. 91-103.
  • M. Beizer & I. Bartal., "The Case of Moses Schorr: Rabbi, Scholar, and Social Activist," Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 21. pp. 426-459. (For the Russian version see: "Case of Rabbi, Scholar and Public Figure Moses Schorr," Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta, # 8 (26), 2003, pp. 269-310).
  • M. Beizer, “Memoirs of Leon Friedland,” Arkhiv evreiskoi istorii, Edited by O. Budnitsky, Vol. 1, ROSSPEN, Moscow, 2004, pp. 13-26. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer. "Restoring Courage in Jewish Hearts: Frank Rosenblatt's Mission in Siberia in 1919," East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 39, # 1, April 2009, pp. 35-56.
  • M. Beizer. "'I Don't Know Whom to Thank': The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's Secret Aid to Soviet Jewry in Post-Stalinist USSR," Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2009, pp. 111-136.
  • M. Beizer. "Autobiography," in N.V. Yukhneva. Israel. Materials of Scientific Expeditions and Missions. Saint-Petersburg, Kunstkamera, 2010, pp. 21-29. (in Russian)
  • Doba-Mera Medvedeva (Gurevich). "Diary of the Days I Lived through." Edited, commented and introduced by M. Beizer. in N.V. Yukhneva. Israel. Materials of Scientific Expeditions and Missions. Saint-Petersburg, Kunstkamera, 2010, pp. 93-215. (in Russian)
  • M. Beizer, "Soviet Union: Jewish Movement, 1967-1989," The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism & Jewish Culture, edited by Judith R. Baskin, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 554-556.

    • Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Short Encyclopedia Articles, Popular Articles

  • M. Beizer, “’Yid’ is a Bona Fide Literary Term (Book review of A. Romanenko, On the Class Essence of Zionism, Leningrad, 1986, 354 pp.), Glasnost’, # 8, 1987. (In Russian) Also: Russkaya mysl, 8.1.1988. Published in English by the Center for Democracy in the U.S.S.R., New York, 1987, pp. 42-44.
  • M. Beizer, “Contemporary Jewish Periodicals in the USSR,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, # 2 (12), 1990, pp. 69-77.
  • M. Beizer, “Jewish Periodicals in the USSR, 1990-1991: A Bibliography,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, # 3 (19), 1992, pp. 62-77. See also: Our Press: World Federation of Jewish Journalists, # 11, 1993, pp. 43-45; Hayitonut shelanu, # 11, 1993, pp. 42-44. (In Hebrew); Undzere press, # 11, 1993, pp. 47-50. (In Yiddish).
  • M. Beizer, “Introduction,” Evreiskii Samizdat, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. VIII-IX. (In Russian and Hebrew).
  • M. Beizer & Y. Cohen, “Subject Index, 1985-1993, Numbers 1-20,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 2 (21), 1993, pp. 97-109.
  • M. Beizer & Y. Cohen, “Subject Index, 1985-1993, Numbers 1-30,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 3 (31), 1996, pp. i-xvii.
  • M. Beizer, “Ukraine,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 364; “Belarus,” col. 117; “Moldova,” col. 281-282; “Uzbekistan,” col. 384-385; “Georgia,” col. 160-161; “Azerbaijan,” col. 114-115; “Latvia,” col. 270-271; “Lithuania,” col. 272; “Estonia,” col. 147; “Tadzhikistan,” col. 356; “Kazakhstan,” col. 260.
  • M. Beizer & I. Klimenko, “Jewish Periodicals in the Former Soviet Union, 1992-1993,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 2 (24), 1994, pp. 72-84.
  • M. Beizer, “Memoirs of the Last of the Old Timers (Book review of S. Borovoi, Vospominania [Memoirs], Gesharim, Moscow, 1993),” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 3 (25), 1994, pp. 73-76.
  • M. Beizer, “New Publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, # 3 (28), 1995, pp. 78-81; # 1 (29), 1996, pp. 82-86; # 2 (30), 1996, pp. 84-87; # 3 (31), 1996, pp. 76-79; # 1 (32), 1997, pp. 83-87; # 2 (33), 1997, pp. 84-87.
  • M. Beizer, “Jews in Petersburg,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, # 1, 1982, pp. 4-21; # 2, 1982, pp. 11-21; # 3, 1984, pp. 4-30; # 4, 1984, pp. 20-53; # 6, 1985; # 7, 1985, pp. 4-20; # 8, 1985, pp. 35-40; # 9, 1986, pp. 4-31; # 11, 1986, pp. 4-29 (In Russian). See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 8-27; Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 154-180; Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 233-271; Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 74-97; Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 149-171.
  • M. Beizer, “Kornei Chukovskii and the Jews,” (under the penname B. Medvedev), Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh,. (In Russian). See also: Evreiskii Samizdat, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 289-295.
  • M. Beizer, “In Search of the Lost Tribes of Israel (Birobidzhan),” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, # 13, 1987, pp. 4-26. (In Russian). See also: Narod i Zemlya, N. 8, 1988, pp. 144-161.
  • M. Beizer, “Notes on Jewish History,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, # 14, 1987, pp. 4-6. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, “Jewish Cultural Activity in Leningrad,” Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot, Vol. 11, 1988, pp. 132-138. (In Hebrew).
  • M. Beizer, “House on the 5th Line,” Vestnik evreiskoi kultury, # 2 (5), 1990, pp. 38-42. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, “The Jews of Leningrad in 1990,” Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot, Vol. 14, 1991, pp. 97-107. (In Hebrew).
  • M. Beizer, “The Jews of Leningrad on the Eve of WW2: Social and Ethno-Cultural Image,” Vestnik Evreiskogo universiteta v Moskve, # 1 (17), 1998, pp. 61-83. (In Russian).
  • M. Beizer, “CIS Synagogues: Restitution and Renovation,” Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot Bema’avar, Vol. 20-21, 2002, pp. 351-366 (In Hebrew).
  • M. Beizer, "The Jewish Folk Music Society," Introduction to the CD The Golden Dove. Masterpieces from the Jewish Folk Music Society, Solo violinist: Zina Schiff and produced by Cherina Carmel, New York, 2002.
  • M. Beizer, "Dubnow, Simon," The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism & Jewish Culture, edited by Judith R. Baskin, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 139.
  • M. Beizer, "Joint Distribution Committee," The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism & Jewish Culture, edited by Judith R. Baskin, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 330-331.
  • M. Beizer, "Saint Petersburg," The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism & Jewish Culture, edited by Judith R. Baskin, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 532.
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