Creator Bio
Yuri Slezkine
b. 1956
Born in the Soviet Union, Yuri Slezkine was trained as an interpreter at Moscow State University. He came to the United States in 1983, earned a doctorate at the University of Texas, Austin, and is now a professor of Russian history and director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Jewish Century
The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modernization is about everyone becoming urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually…