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Igal Halfin
Senior Lecturer
Department
of History
halfin@post.tau.ac.il
Tel:
03-8351939
EDUCATION
PhD, History
Department, Columbia University, 1995.
Exchange Scholar,
Comparative Literature Department, Yale University, 1993-94.
MA, Magna Cum
Laude, History Department, Tel-Aviv University, 1988-89.
BA, Cum Laude,
Philosophy and History, Tel-Aviv University, 1985-1987.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellowship at the
Shelby Cullom
Davis Center for Historical Studies,
Princeton University, 2005-2006
Research Grant,
Israeli Academy of Science, Jerusalem, 1999-2001
Publication Grant,
Yad Ha-Nadiv, Jerusalem, 1997
Research Grant,
Kennan Center at the Wudrow Wilson Institute, Washington, 1996
Postdoctoral
Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 1994-1995
Lane Cooper
Dissertation Writing Fellowship, New York, 1993
Junior Researcher
Fellowship, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 1993
Pepsico Research
Grant, New York, 1992
Richard Hofstadter
Fellowship, Columbia University, 1989-1993
Aran Fellowship,
Tel-Aviv University, 1988-89
University Award
for Outstanding Academic Performance, Tel-Aviv University, 1987
AREAS OF
COMPETENCE
Russian and Soviet
History, Intellectual History, Political Philosophy, Marx and Contemporary
Marxism, Theory of Psychoanalysis.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Igal Halfin,
From Darkness to Light. Class, Consciousness and Salvation in Revolutionary
Russia, (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2000), xii + 474pp.
Igal Halfin (ed.)
Language and
Revolution. The Making of Modern Political Identity
(London: Frank Cass, 2002)
Igal Halfin,
Terror in My Soul. Communist Autobiographies on Trial (Harvard, 2003)
Articles
1) Igal Halfin and
Jochen Hellbeck, "Steven Kotkin's Magnetic Mountain and the Soviet
Subject," Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, vol.3, (1996),
pp.331-342.
2) Igal Halfin,
"The Rape of the Intelligentsia as a Proletarian Foundational Myth," Russian
Review, vol.1, (1997), pp.90-109.
3) Igal Halfin,
"From Darkness to Light: Student Communist Autobiographies of the 1920s,"
Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, heft 2, (1997), pp.210-236.
4) Igal Halfin,
“The Demonization of the Opposition: Stalinist Memory and the `Communist
Archive’ at Leningrad Communist University," Kritika, February, 2001
5) Igal Halfin,
"Looking into the Oppositionists’ Souls: Inquisition Communist Style,"
Russian Review, June, 2001,
6) Igal Halfin,
“Intimacy
in an Ideological Key:
The Communist Case
of the Twenties and Thirties,” in, Language and Revolution. The Making of
Modern Political Identity,
(Igal Halfin, editor), (Frank Cass, London, 2001)
7) Igal Halfin,
“Poetics in the Archives,” Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, vol.1,
(2003).
8) Igal Halfin,
Questionnaire, Ab Imperio, 2003
9) Igal Halfin,
“The Syntax of the Bolshevik Self,” Ab Imperio, 2003
10) Igal Halfin,
“Between Instinct and Mind: the Bolshevik View of the Proletarian Self,”
Slavic Review, 62, no.1, (Spring 2003), pp.34-40.
11) Igal Halfin,
“Popov’s apostasy and the Right Opposition: A Drama in Three Letters (and two
Interrogations),” in, Jochen Hellbeck and Klaus Heller, eds.,
Autobiographische Praktiken in Russland/ Autobiographical Practices in
Russia
(Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004).
12) Igal Halfin,
“Stalin’s Great Purge and the Question of Belief,” B. Studer, (ed.),
Individualism and System in Stalinism, forthcoming, Bazel, 2005
יגאל חלפין, "אסכטולוגיה
אדומה" זמנים, 1997, ע"ע, 66-86.
יגאל חלפין,
"האופוזיציה קומוניסטית בברית המועצות: מריפוי להשמדה,"
היסטוריה,
מרץ 2001
יגאל חלפין, "המשפחה הקומוניסטית והטרור הגדול", זמנים, יולי 2001
יגאל חלפין, "נשמות
החברים באש צולבת: על משמעות ה"אשמה" בקומוניזם", אלפיים, אפריל 2001
יגאל חלפין, " הגוף
הבולשביקי" זמנים, 2002
Book
Reviews
2) "Nietzsche in
the Soviet Union," Russian Review, vol.2, (1996).
3) "Red
Apocalypse," Russian Review, vol.2, (1998).
4) “The Road to
Terror,” Slavic Review, vol.3, (2001)
Cinema Reviews
5) "אנה: סרטו של
ניקיטה מיכאלקוב," זמנים, אביב 1997
DISSERTATION
Igal Halfin,
"Constructing the Workers' Intelligentsia: Class, Consciousness and the New Man
in the Soviet Universities of the 1920s," Columbia University, 1995
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