M.A. Victoria Gerasimova

Biography

Dr. Victoria Gerasimova graduated Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities (2009). Received her degree in 2013 with a thesis titled “Jewish Converts in the Russian Empire of the XVIII century: Peculiarities of Socio-Cultural Adaptation”. Her main research interests include social history of Jewish in Eastern and Central Europe, Jewish-Christian relations, and digital research in Jewish Studies. She served a guest co-editor of the 5th issue of “Judaic-Slavic Journal” on the History of Jews in Siberia and Russian Far East and authored a book “Insignificant Minority: Jews in Siberia, 1920-30s” (in print). Currently she is working on the project about Jewish conversions in the Kingdom of Poland, 1864-1915.

Most important scholarly articles

1. Gerasimova V.A. Sovetization of Siberian Jewry: the case of Omsk [Sovetizaciya sibirskogo evrejstva: sluchaj Omska] in Sovetskaya geniza: novye arhivnye razyskaniya po istorii evreev v SSSR. Vol.1. Ed. by G. Estrajh, A. Frenkel’. Boston: Academic Studies Press; Sankt-Peterburg: BiblioRossika, 2020, pp. 27-108. (Russian)
2. Gerasimova V.A. “Kirzhnits’s plan”. The Project on Jewish Resettlement to Siberia during the Civil War Era” [Plan Kirzhnitsa. Proekt evreiskoi immigratsii v Sibir’ v period Grazhdanskoi voiny], Judaic-Slavic Journal. 2021. No. 1 (5). P. 233-261. (Russian)
3. Gerasimova V.A. “Is Siberia Tolerant? To the Question of the Attitude to Jews in Western Siberia in Pre-revolutionary Period” [Sibir’ tolerantnaja? K voprosu ob otnoshenii k evrejam v Zapadnoj Sibiri v dorevoljutsionny period], Vestnik Permskogo Universiteta, Series: History, no. 3 (42), (2018), 54-63 (Russian, WoS)
4. Gerasimova V.A. “Century-Old Prejudice” and “Siberian Mentality” Microhistory of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Case of Insulting the Priest Alexey Orlov by the Jews of Tomsk” [“Vekovoe predubezhdenie” i “sibirskij mentalitet”. Mikroistorija “dela oskorblenija svjaschennika Alekseja Orlova tomskimi evrejami v seredine XIX veka], Gosudarstvo, religija, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom, no. 3 (36), 81-101. (Russian, Scopus, Q1)
5. Gerasimova V.A. “Blood in Jewish-Christian Relationships in the Smolensk Region in the 18th Early 20th Centuries” [Krov’ v iudeo-khristianskikh otnosheniiakh na Smolenshchine v XVIII nachale XX vv.], Etnograﬁcheskoe obozrenie 3 (2018): 8–20. (Russian, Scopus)