Jonathan Dekel‐Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5932624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Dekel‐Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dekel‐Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Russian army meets civilian populations, then and now
Transnational intervention and its limits
This article reassesses the efforts by western Jews to rescue their imperilled European brethren in the years before and during the Second World War. It goes beyond the conventional question, “Could more have been done to rescue European Jewry?” Rather, the article explores what Jewish leaders learned about the global practice of philanthropic relief during the decades before the rise of European fascism and hyper-nationalism. It then asks how th…
Between Myths, Memories, History, and Politics
This essay aims to share with the readers of The Public Historian some of the challenges, thoughts, and conclusions that I encountered as a historian during the planning and execution of content for the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. As the essay illustrates, this extraordinary project sat at the intersection of a troubled history, widely divergent popular memories and national narratives, and divisive contemporary politics. The es…
East European Jewish migration
This introductory article provides an overview of modern Jewish migration from Eastern Europe. It engages the foundational historiography of the field and explores intersections of Jewish migration with general migration theory. In addition to framing the six articles in this special collection, this essay presents longue durée factors linking today's post-Soviet diaspora communities on three continents with social and political trends beginning …
Crimea 2008
This essay considers a new, troubling development in the former Soviet Union. It calls for historians to be attentive and thereby perhaps to forestall or minimise potential damage to Jews and Jewish interests in the former Soviet Union which might result from the use and misuse of history. The essay assesses recent statements from a former minister in Russia regarding Jewish agricultural settlement in Crimea during the interwar period. These stat…
Farming the Red Land
New” Jews of the Agricultural Kind
An Unlikely Triangle
Journal Article An Unlikely Triangle: Philanthropists, Commissars, and American Statesmanship Meet in Soviet Crimea, 1922–37 Get access Jonathan Dekel-Chen Jonathan Dekel-Chen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 3, June 2003, Pages 353–376, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00357 Published: 13 May 2003
New” Jews of the Agricultural Kind
Crimea 2008
This essay considers a new, troubling development in the former Soviet Union. It calls for historians to be attentive and thereby perhaps to forestall or minimise potential damage to Jews and Jewish interests in the former Soviet Union which might result from the use and misuse of history. The essay assesses recent statements from a former minister in Russia regarding Jewish agricultural settlement in Crimea during the interwar period. These stat…
An Unlikely Triangle
Journal Article An Unlikely Triangle: Philanthropists, Commissars, and American Statesmanship Meet in Soviet Crimea, 1922–37 Get access Jonathan Dekel-Chen Jonathan Dekel-Chen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 27, Issue 3, June 2003, Pages 353–376, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00357 Published: 13 May 2003
New” Jews of the Agricultural Kind
Farming the Red Land
Crimea 2008
This essay considers a new, troubling development in the former Soviet Union. It calls for historians to be attentive and thereby perhaps to forestall or minimise potential damage to Jews and Jewish interests in the former Soviet Union which might result from the use and misuse of history. The essay assesses recent statements from a former minister in Russia regarding Jewish agricultural settlement in Crimea during the interwar period. These stat…
East European Jewish migration
This introductory article provides an overview of modern Jewish migration from Eastern Europe. It engages the foundational historiography of the field and explores intersections of Jewish migration with general migration theory. In addition to framing the six articles in this special collection, this essay presents longue durée factors linking today's post-Soviet diaspora communities on three continents with social and political trends beginning …
Transnational intervention and its limits
This article reassesses the efforts by western Jews to rescue their imperilled European brethren in the years before and during the Second World War. It goes beyond the conventional question, “Could more have been done to rescue European Jewry?” Rather, the article explores what Jewish leaders learned about the global practice of philanthropic relief during the decades before the rise of European fascism and hyper-nationalism. It then asks how th…
Between Myths, Memories, History, and Politics
This essay aims to share with the readers of The Public Historian some of the challenges, thoughts, and conclusions that I encountered as a historian during the planning and execution of content for the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. As the essay illustrates, this extraordinary project sat at the intersection of a troubled history, widely divergent popular memories and national narratives, and divisive contemporary politics. The es…
The Russian army meets civilian populations, then and now
History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Politics (5 works)