Theodore R Weeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 323401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore R Weeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore R |
| FAMILY NAME | Weeks |
| SIGNATURE | WEEKS T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto: Writing Our History
The Odyssey of an Apple Thief
Book Review| October 01 2021 The Odyssey of an Apple Thief Moishe Rozenbaumas, The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, translated from the French by Jonathan Layton, edited by Isabelle Rozenbaumas, with a foreword by Samuel Kassow (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2019), 213 pp., illustrations, one map. ISBN 978-0-8156-3626-7 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8156-3644-1. Theodore R. Weeks Theodore R. Weeks Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Search for ot…
The Road to September 1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II
Yuliya Minkova, Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin
Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
The Operation Reinhard Death Camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka
Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzyńska, 1928–1945
The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Jews and Poles, 1860–1914: Assimilation, Emancipation, Antisemitism
E ugene M. A vrutin . The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town
The “blood libel,” the Christian prejudice accusing Jews of slaughtering Christian children for mysterious rituals, especially around Pesach or Easter, has a long and curious history. Despite the fact that the papacy and Catholic hierarchy fairly consistently condemned the belief as superstition, apparently even in the twentieth century traces of this bizarre prejudice remained. Eugene M. Avrutin’s new book, The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Ru…
Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
Henryk Głębocki, A Disastrous Matter: The Polish Question in the Russian Political Thought and Discourse of the Great Reform Age, 1856–1866
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945
Book Review| April 01 2018 The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945 Joshua D. Zimmerman, The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). 454 pp., photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography. ISBN 978-1-107-01426-8. Theodore R. Weeks Theodore R. Weeks Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2018) 63 (1): 107–109. h…
Vasilijus Safronovas, The creation of national spaces in a pluricultural region: The case of Prussian Lithuania
In the past decades, studies of ethnic relations, nationality policy, and imperial policies have burgeoned. Similarly, recent studies have looked into the development of national identity, the inte
Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, 1861–1914: Changes and Continuities
Separatist Nationalism in the Romanov and Soviet Empires
Neither the Russian Empire nor the USSR were nation-states but in many ways both favoured Russian culture and language. In the pre-revolutionary period it was difficult to discern a consistent ‘nationality policy’, in particular as the Tsar and his servitors were themselves hardly exemplars of pure Russian ethnicity. Thus policies described as ‘russification’ seldom aimed at cultural assimilation; rather, they sought to minimize the perceived dan…
The Vilnius and Kaunas Ghettos and the Fate of Lithuanian Jewry, 1941–1945
The Jews in Poland and Russia
Book Review| October 01 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia Antony Polonsky, The Jews in Poland and Russia, (Oxford and Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010), Volume 1: 1350–1881, 534 pp. ISBN 978-1874774648, Volume 2: 1881–1914, 492 pp. Maps, tables, glossary, bibliography. ISBN 978–1904113836. Theodore R. Weeks Theodore R. Weeks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2012) 57 (3): 101–…
The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
Book Review| April 01 2012 The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture, Bozena Shallcross. Theodore R. Weeks Theodore R. Weeks Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2012) 57 (1): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.2307/41557955 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Theodore R. Weeks; Th…
From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855-1870
Pax Sovietica. Stalin, die Westmächte und die deutsche Frage 1941-45
Pax Sovietica. Stalin, die Westmächte und die deutsche Frage 1941–45
Pax Sovietica. Stalin, die Westmächte und die deutsche Frage 1941–45." The International History Review, 33(4), pp. 746–747
Vilna, Wilno, Vilnius 1863-1939: Une étude de cas sur les cultures parallèles et sur « l’Autre » invisible
La ville connue sous les noms de Vilna, Wilno et Vilnius, aujourd’hui capitale de la Lituanie, possédait un caractère multiethnique et multiculturel très marqué avant 1939. Alors que la ville était sous administration russe depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la culture polonaise et la culture juive restèrent les plus visibles jusqu’en 1914, malgré les efforts de russification du paysage urbain. Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, Vilnius devint polonaise, ma…
Remembering and Forgetting: Creating a Soviet Lithuanian Capital. Vilnius 1944–1949
Keywords: LithuaniaVilniusUSSRPolishurbancommunism Notes Notes 1. Throughout this essay I will use the Lithuanian name for the city, ‘Vilnius’, for the sake of clarity. 2. Rocznik statystyczny Wilna 1937 (Wilno, Skład Główny w centralnym biurze statystycznym m. Wilna, 1939), p. 9. 3. Recently the Lithuanian historian Česlovas Laurinavičius suggested that the Soviet authorities may have considered forming a Lithuanian SSR without Vilnius. However,…
Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905
Russification and the Lithuanians, 1863-1905
In the half-century after the Polish insurrection of 1863, the Russian government applied many restrictive measures to Lithuanian culture, including the prohibition against printing Lithuanian except in Cyrillic letters. Some have argued that St. Petersburg aimed to wipe out the culture and language of Lithuanians in this period. A close look at the archival sources shows, however, that the Russian authorities were very little concerned with the …
Remembering and Forgetting: Creating a Soviet Lithuanian Capital. Vilnius 1944–1949
Keywords: LithuaniaVilniusUSSRPolishurbancommunism Notes Notes 1. Throughout this essay I will use the Lithuanian name for the city, ‘Vilnius’, for the sake of clarity. 2. Rocznik statystyczny Wilna 1937 (Wilno, Skład Główny w centralnym biurze statystycznym m. Wilna, 1939), p. 9. 3. Recently the Lithuanian historian Česlovas Laurinavičius suggested that the Soviet authorities may have considered forming a Lithuanian SSR without Vilnius. However,…
A Multi-ethnic City in Transition: Vilnius's Stormy Decade, 1939-1949
An American historian traces major changes in the demographic character of Vilnius during 1939-1949, a period encompassing the dislocation of its population and destruction during World War II as well as the city's ethnic and physical transformation prompted by incorporation into the USSR. More specifically, the paper, based in part on archival material, details and contrasts the circumstances prevailing during several distinctive periods in the …
Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union
Population Politics in Vilnius 1944-1947: A Case Study of Socialist-Sponsored Ethnic Cleansing
A historian examines a specific case of ethnic cleansing in the immediate aftermath of World War II: the "repatriation" of Poles from the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1944 and 1947. Questions of how "repatriation" was carried out, the motivation on the Polish and Soviet sides, the differences in outcome of this policy in Vilnius and the countryside, and why "repatriation" presents a case of ethnic cleansing are considered on the b…
Polish ‘progressive antisemitism’, 1905–1914
L'A. evoque ici une forme d'antisemitisme qui s'est developpe en Pologne entre 1905 et 1914 : l'antisemitisme progressif. Pour le decrire et montrer les origines, il remonte jusqu'en 1850. Il insiste sur l'influence de certaines personnalites dans ce probleme, telles que celle d'Iza Moszczencka ou d'Andrzej Niemojewski. Il souligne l'importance et le retentissement de leurs ecrits respectifs dans le domaine de ce qu'ils appelaient la question jui…
Defining Us and Them: Poles and Russians in the "Western Provinces," 1863-1914
Like other multinational states in Europe, from the middle of the nineteenth century the Russian Empire found itself confronted, indeed threatened, by the growing strength of non-Russian national movements. Unlike other contemporary national "awakenings," however, the Polish question in the Russian Empire had roots extending beyond the eighteenth century and posed, at least in the minds of Russian administrators, a serious and persistent threat t…
Us” or “Them”? Belarusians and Official Russia, 1863–1914
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, nationality as an “ordering principle” became for the first time a significant factor for Russian imperial policy. Among the most thorny issues facing the imperial bureaucracy was the delimitation of the boundaries of the “Russian nation.” As is well known, St Petersburg never accepted either Ukrainians (at the time more often referred to as “Little Russians”) or Belarusians as separate nations. On …
Fanning the flames: Jews in the Warsaw Press, 1905–1912
Pendant mille ans les Juifs et les Polonais ont partage un territoire commun, tout en gardant leurs cultures, religions, langues et coutumes respectives. Les relations entre les catholiques et les Juifs n'ont jamais ete tres faciles, mais c'est au XIXe siecle qu'elles se sont envenimees pour des raisons politiques, economiques, sociales et ideologiques. Toutefois, la rupture n'est intervenue qu'apres la Revolution de 1905-6. Dans cet article, l'A…
Russia- Ukraine-Ukraine-Russia and Poland-Ukraine-Ukraine-Poland
Nationality and Municipality: Reforming City Government in the Kingdom of Poland, 1904-1915
Lithuanians, poles and the Russian imperial government at the turn of the century
Defining Us and Them: Poles and Russians in the "Western Provinces," 1863-1914
Like other multinational states in Europe, from the middle of the nineteenth century the Russian Empire found itself confronted, indeed threatened, by the growing strength of non-Russian national movements. Unlike other contemporary national "awakenings," however, the Polish question in the Russian Empire had roots extending beyond the eighteenth century and posed, at least in the minds of Russian administrators, a serious and persistent threat t…
Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934 . George O. Liber , Stephen White
Polish ‘progressive antisemitism’, 1905–1914
L'A. evoque ici une forme d'antisemitisme qui s'est developpe en Pologne entre 1905 et 1914 : l'antisemitisme progressif. Pour le decrire et montrer les origines, il remonte jusqu'en 1850. Il insiste sur l'influence de certaines personnalites dans ce probleme, telles que celle d'Iza Moszczencka ou d'Andrzej Niemojewski. Il souligne l'importance et le retentissement de leurs ecrits respectifs dans le domaine de ce qu'ils appelaient la question jui…
Defending Our Own: Government and the Russian Minority in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905-1914
The Russian Empire is often portrayed as a hodge-podge of rival nationalities, with the imperial government, dominated by Russians, lording it over the nonRussians throughout the empire's Eurasian expanse. While this portrait has much to recommend it as a general description of relations within the Russian Empire, it can be accepted only cautiously and with many reservations. In fact, the fundamental understanding and conception of and ethnicity …
Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union
Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905
Fanning the flames: Jews in the Warsaw Press, 1905–1912
Pendant mille ans les Juifs et les Polonais ont partage un territoire commun, tout en gardant leurs cultures, religions, langues et coutumes respectives. Les relations entre les catholiques et les Juifs n'ont jamais ete tres faciles, mais c'est au XIXe siecle qu'elles se sont envenimees pour des raisons politiques, economiques, sociales et ideologiques. Toutefois, la rupture n'est intervenue qu'apres la Revolution de 1905-6. Dans cet article, l'A…
Polish-Jewish Relations 1903–1914: The View from the Chancellery
Old views of Russian officialdom and the question, portraying the Tsarist government as actively fomenting pogroms, have largely been laid to rest in the scholarship of the last twenty years. What has emerged to replace this simple picture of unalloyed evil is a complex picture of wide-spread, practically universal antisemitic feelings (in various forms) within the Russian government and bureaucracy, coupled with, and at times balanced by, a desi…
Poles, Jews, and Russians, 1863–1914: The Death of the Ideal of Assimilation in the Kingdom of Poland
Our Muslims’ — The Lithuanian Tatars and the Russian imperial government
In percent 1 897, of according the population to official of the figures, Russian Muslims Empire, made that up is to some say, eleven nearly p rcent of the pula i n o the Rus an E pir , tha is o say n arly double the percentage of the better known (both then and now) Jewish ( Obshchii svod 1: 250-1). In recent years scholarly and general interest in the minority (to use a convenient, though misleading and analytically unhelpful term) has grown si…
Monuments and Memory: Immortalizing Count M. N. Muraviev in Vilna, 1898
Ernest Renan argued over a century ago that belonging to a nation entails forgetting just as much as it required remembering past events. Certainly this is the case in East Central Europe, where not infrequently different nationalities create out of a single historical event utterly opposing historical memories. In the western borderlands of the Russian Empire, one historical event that has been variously interpreted by different nationalities is…
Official Russia and the Lithuanians, 1863-1905
The period between 1863 and 1914 in the Russian Empire is often described as one of ‘russification’. In the case of the Lithuanians, this was a period characterized by the prohibition on publishing in the Lithuanian language in the Roman alphabet (until1904). At the time and in later historiography, it has frequently been claimed that the Russian authorities aimed to russify the Lithuanian nation. However, a look at archival sources reveals that …
Russification and the Lithuanians, 1863-1905
In the half-century after the Polish insurrection of 1863, the Russian government applied many restrictive measures to Lithuanian culture, including the prohibition against printing Lithuanian except in Cyrillic letters. Some have argued that St. Petersburg aimed to wipe out the culture and language of Lithuanians in this period. A close look at the archival sources shows, however, that the Russian authorities were very little concerned with the …
Us” or “Them”? Belarusians and Official Russia, 1863–1914
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, nationality as an “ordering principle” became for the first time a significant factor for Russian imperial policy. Among the most thorny issues facing the imperial bureaucracy was the delimitation of the boundaries of the “Russian nation.” As is well known, St Petersburg never accepted either Ukrainians (at the time more often referred to as “Little Russians”) or Belarusians as separate nations. On …
The best of both worlds: Creating the Żyd–Polak
Relations between Poles and Jews in the later nineteenth century resemble a classic tragedy. The hopeful era of Polish–Jewish ‘brotherhood’ in the early 1860s was cut short by the Russian repressio
A Multi-ethnic City in Transition: Vilnius's Stormy Decade, 1939-1949
An American historian traces major changes in the demographic character of Vilnius during 1939-1949, a period encompassing the dislocation of its population and destruction during World War II as well as the city's ethnic and physical transformation prompted by incorporation into the USSR. More specifically, the paper, based in part on archival material, details and contrasts the circumstances prevailing during several distinctive periods in the …
Population Politics in Vilnius 1944-1947: A Case Study of Socialist-Sponsored Ethnic Cleansing
A historian examines a specific case of ethnic cleansing in the immediate aftermath of World War II: the "repatriation" of Poles from the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1944 and 1947. Questions of how "repatriation" was carried out, the motivation on the Polish and Soviet sides, the differences in outcome of this policy in Vilnius and the countryside, and why "repatriation" presents a case of ethnic cleansing are considered on the b…
Remembering and Forgetting: Creating a Soviet Lithuanian Capital. Vilnius 1944–1949
Keywords: LithuaniaVilniusUSSRPolishurbancommunism Notes Notes 1. Throughout this essay I will use the Lithuanian name for the city, ‘Vilnius’, for the sake of clarity. 2. Rocznik statystyczny Wilna 1937 (Wilno, Skład Główny w centralnym biurze statystycznym m. Wilna, 1939), p. 9. 3. Recently the Lithuanian historian Česlovas Laurinavičius suggested that the Soviet authorities may have considered forming a Lithuanian SSR without Vilnius. However,…
Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine ‐ Edited by Dominique Arel and Blair A. Ruble
Vilna, Wilno, Vilnius 1863-1939: Une étude de cas sur les cultures parallèles et sur « l’Autre » invisible
La ville connue sous les noms de Vilna, Wilno et Vilnius, aujourd’hui capitale de la Lituanie, possédait un caractère multiethnique et multiculturel très marqué avant 1939. Alors que la ville était sous administration russe depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, la culture polonaise et la culture juive restèrent les plus visibles jusqu’en 1914, malgré les efforts de russification du paysage urbain. Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, Vilnius devint polonaise, ma…
From the Shadow of Empire: Defining the Russian Nation through Cultural Mythology, 1855-1870
Pax Sovietica. Stalin, die Westmächte und die deutsche Frage 1941-45
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