Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans is the author and editor of five books, including Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (2002), which was awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, and the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, modern European Jewish history, and the history of human rights.