Victoria Gerasimova
Date and institution of MA awarded:
, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Russia)
Further academic qualifications:
Specialist (2009): Russian State University for the Humanities, Cultural Studies, specialization – Jewish Civilization
Specialisation:
History of Jews in the 18th–19th centuries in the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Poland; history of Jews in Siberia; Jewish press in Central and Eastern Europe; digital methods in Jewish studies
Department/Section:
Participation in scholarly communities and networks:
Member of the Section for Research on the History of Siberia, Polish Academy of Sciences
Contact:
Participation in grants and research projects:
- “The Legal Status of Jews in the Polish Lands under Partition and in the Second Polish Republic. Source Edition”, University of Warsaw, research team member, 2022–2027.
- “Lexicon of Rabbis in the Kingdom of Poland”, University of Wrocław, research team member, 2022–2024.
- “Polish Post-January Uprising Deportees in Siberia – An Interactive Biographical Dictionary”, Polish Academy of Sciences, research team member, 2024–2025.
- “Cultural and Intellectual Geography of the Former Polish Lands under Partition 1865–1918 – A Digital Vademecum”, research team member, 2024–2029.
- “Opracowanie i wydanie Bibliografii historii Polski XIX i XX wieku. T. III: 1865-1918. Sprawozdania. Wol. 6: Zabór pruski”, 2025-2030.
- Negotiating Faith: Jewish Conversions, Imperial Policies, and Confessional Choices in Russia in “Religious Conversion and Imperial Rule. Self, Otherness and Power in the Global Perspective (16th to 19th centuries)” edited by Ricarda Vulpius and Guillermo Wilde. Campus Verlag Frankfurt/New York, 2026, pp. 233-252.
- “(Un)Welcome Guests? Converted Jews and the State in the Eighteenth Century Russian Empire.” East European Jewish Affairs, October, 1–20 2025 doi:10.1080/13501674.2025.2574427
- Neznachitiel’noje mien’szinstwo. Ewreji v Sibiri w 1920-e gg., Moscow, 2024.
- “Sowietiizacjia sibirskogo ewrejstwa: sluczaj Omska”, Sowieckaja gieniza: nowyje archiwnyje razyskanija po istorji ewrejew v SSSR, vol. 1, eds. G. Estraikh, A. Frenkel’, Sankt-Petersburg/Boston, 2020, pp. 27–108.
- “Krow’ w judeo-christjanskich otnoszenijach na Smolenszczinie w XVIII – naczale XX ww.”, Etnograficzeskoje obozrienije, 3 (2018), pp. 8–20.
- “Mieżdu judaizmom i prawoslawijem w Rossii w XVIII w.”, Woprosy istorii, 9 (2016), pp. 158–169.
