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

 

  

 MA  Seminar