John Doyle Klier's pioneering publications on the relations between Jews
and the Russian social order--on topics such as public opinion,
governance, conversion, Russification politics, antisemitism, and
pogroms--have influenced an entire generation of new scholarship. Jews
in the East European Borderlands, a collection of essays honoring
Klier's life and work, brings together some of the most innovative
scholarship in the field. Focusing on the complex, often violent,
entanglements between Jews and Russians, historians and literary
scholars critically reassess the artifacts of high culture, including
Yiddish and Russian prose and poetry, as well as dimensions of daily
life, including letter-writing, diaries, the work of philanthropy,
photojournalism, and the mass circulation press.