Scholarships and Awards:
1987-1991 - Levi Eshkol Scholarship, Ministry of Science and Art.
1991-1992 - Scholarship from the Chancellor of the Hebrew University.
1992-1993, 1994-1995, and 1996-1997 -Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York.
2000 – Antsiferov Prize for the best work on St. Petersburg published in 1998-1999.

List of Publications by Michael Beizer

Doctoral Work

1. The Jews of Leningrad (Petrograd) in the Inter-War Period. Adviser - Prof. Moredechai Altshuler. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995. Approved – 1996. 568 pp. (In Russian). 

Books

 2.     The Jews of St. Petersburg. Excursions through a Noble Past, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia - New York, 1989. 328 pp.
3.      Jews in Petersburg, Biblioteka Aliya, Jerusalem, 1989 (1991 –second edition). 320 pp. (In Russian)
4.      The Jews of Leningrad: National Life and Sovietization, 1917-1939, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gishrei Tarbut Association, Jerusalem-Moscow, 1999. 448 pp. (In Russian) Antsiferov Prize of 2000 (St. Petersburg).
5.      Our Legacy: CIS Synagogues, Past and Present, Institute of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Gishrei Tarbut Association, Jerusalem-Moscow, 2002. 182 pp. (In English and Russian)
6.     The Jews of Leningrad in the Inter-War Period, Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem (In Hebrew, in print).
7.     JDC in Russia, USSR, FSU (Photo-Album), Co-Author – Mikhail Mitsel (In English and Russian) (In print).

 Books Edited

8.     Know Where We Came From! Historical and Cultural Background of the Immigrants from the Soviet Union, Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, 1992. 178 pp. (first 156 pp. Edited by M. Beizer, the rest – Riva Perlamutr). (In Hebrew)

 Articles

A.     PUBLISHED BEFORE IMMIGRATION

9.     “Jews in Petersburg: 1^st Excursion,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 1, 1982, pp. 4-21. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 8-27.

10.             “Jews in Petersburg: 1^st Excursion (The End),” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 2, 1982, pp. 11-21. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 98-109.

11.             “Jews in Petersburg: 2^st Excursion,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 3, 1984, pp. 4-30. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 154-180.

12.            “The Jewish Preobrazhensky Cemetery,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 4, 1984, pp. 20-53. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 26, 1988, pp. 233-271.

13.             “Vassilievskii Island: 4^th Excursion,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 6, 1985. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 74-97.

14.            “Vassilievskii Island: 4^th Excursion (The End),” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 7, 1985, pp. 4-20. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 149-171.

15.            “Kornei Chukovskii and the Jews,” (under the penname B. Medvedev), Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 8, 1985, pp. 35-40. (In Russian) See also: Jewish Samizdat, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. 289-295.

16.            “Jews in Petersburg: 5^th Excursion,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 9, 1986, pp. 4-31. (In Russian)

17.            “Jews in Petersburg: 5^th Excursion (The End),” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 11, 1986, pp. 4-29. (In Russian)

18.            “The Jewish Preobrazhensky Cemetery, Leningrad,” The Journal of the Academic Proceedings of Soviet Jewry, Vol.1, N.1, 1986, London, pp.25-64.

19.            “In the Search of the Lost Tribes of Israel (Birobidzhan),” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 13, 1987, pp. 4-26. (In Russian)

 B.      PUBLISHED AFTER IMMIGRATION:

 20.            “The Jews of St. Petersburg,” (as part of the then to be published book), The Journal of the Academic Proceedings of Soviet Jewry, Vol.1, N.2, 1988, pp. 156-392.

21.            “Jewish Cultural Activity in Leningrad,” Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot, Vol. 11, 1988, pp. 132-138. (In Hebrew)

22.            “In Search for the Lost Tribes of Israel (Birobidzhan),” Narod i Zemlya, N. 8, 1988, pp. 144-161. (In Russian)

23.            “The Petrograd Jewish Obschina (Kehila) in 1917,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, N.3 (10), 1989, pp.5-29.

24.            “House on the 5^th Line,” Vestnik evreiskoi kultury, N. 2 (5), 1990, pp. 38-42. (In Russian)

25.            “Russia,” The Encyclopedia Judaica Year Book 1990-1991, Jerusalem, 1991, col. 388-394.

26.            “New Information on the Life of Izrail Tsinberg,” Soviet Jewish Affairs, Vol.21, N.2, 1991, pp. 31-38.

27.            “The Jews of Leningrad in 1990,” Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot, Vol. 14, 1991, pp. 97-107. (In Hebrew)

28.             “Yehiel Ravrebe, Jewish Poet and Scholar,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, N.1 (17), 1992, pp. 27-36. Co-author - Avraham Greenbaum.

29.             “Confiscation of Matzah by the KGB, 1975,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, N.3 (19), 1992, pp. 43-45. [A newly published document with an introduction]

30.            “The Petrograd Jewish Community in 1917,” Istoricheskie sud’by evreev v Rossii i v SSSR: Nachalo dialoga, Moscow, 1992, pp. 165-174. (In Russian)

31.            “Russia,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 328-339.

32.             “Dzerzhinskii's Attitude toward Zionism,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N.1 (23), 1994, pp.64-70. Co-author - Vladlen Izmozik. [Newly published documents with an introduction]

33.             “An Unsent Letter from Simon Dubnow to Lenin,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N.2 (24), 1994, pp.49-51. [A newly published document with an introduction]

34.             “The Liquidation of the Remnants of Jewish Life in Leningrad in the Late 1930s,” Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, Vol.3, 1994, pp. 45-52.

35.            “The Leningrad Jewish Religious Community: From the NEP through its Liquidation,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 3(28), 1995, pp. 16-42.

36.            ”Zionist Youth Movement in Post-October  Petrograd-Leningrad,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 2(33), 1997, pp. 7-31.

37.            “LenOZET- The Leningrad Branch of the Society for Settling Jews on the Land, 1926-1938,” Shvut, N.5 (21), 1997, pp. 96-122.

38.            “Hashomer Hatsa’ir in Kalinin, 1934,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 3 (34), 1997, pp.51-72. Co-author - Arkadii Zeltser. [Newly published documents with an introduction]

39.            “Dubnov in St. Petersburg,” A Missionary for History: Essays in Honor of Simon Dubnov, Ed. By Kristi Groberg & Avraham Greenbaum, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998, pp.83-86.

40.            “The Jews of Leningrad on the Eve of WW2; Social and Ethno-Cultural Image,” Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta v Moskve, N. 1 (17), 1998, pp. 61-83. (In Russian)

41.            “Anti-Semitism in Petrograd/Leningrad, 1917-1930,” East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 29, Nos. 1-2, 1999, pp. 5-28.

42.            “The Destruction of the Jewish Religious Life in Leningrad, 1929-1939,” Shvut, N. 8 (24), 1999, pp. 58-86.

43.            “Religious Reform: An Option for the Jews of Russia in the First Quarter of the 20th Century? Example of St. Petersburg-Leningrad,” Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B. History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, 2000, pp. 199*-208*.

44.            “’Tevie the Milkman’ as a Mirror of the Russian Revolution, or the Two Worlds of Shalom Aleichem,” Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta, N. 4, 2000, pp. 87-100. (In Russian)

45.            “Memoirs of Leon Friedland,” Istoria evreev Sankt-Peterburga, St. Petersburg, (in print). [A newly published document with an introduction] (In Russian)

46.            “CIS Synagogues: Restitution and Renovation,” Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot Bema’avar, N. 20-21, 2002, pp. 351-366 (In Hebrew).

47.            “Jewish Samizdat in Leningrad in 1980-s. Leningrad Jewish Almanach,” Rossiiskii sionizm: istoriya i kultura, Moscow 2002, pp. 292-299. (In Russian)

48.            "Case of Rabbi, Scholar and Public Figure Moses Schorr," Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta, (in print), Co-author – Israel Bartal, [A newly published document with an introduction] (in Russian, in print)

49.             "Murder of Professor Friedlaender and Rabbi Cantor," American Jewish Archives Journal, [A newly published document with an introduction] (in print)

50.            "A Debate about a Congress of Jewoish Religious Communities in the USSR, 1925-1926," Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1 (50) 2003, Co-author – Anatolii Karasev. [A newly published document with an introduction], p. 138-175.

51.            "Samuil Efimovich Lubarsky: Portrait of a Deputy Director of the Agro-Joint," Problemy evreiskogo samosoznania, Moscow, 2004, pp. 127-142. (In Russian)

52.            “Dubnov’s Theory of Autonomism and Its Practice in the Commonwealth of Independent States,” (in print)

53.            "Refuseniks' Movement of the 1980s: Recollection with an Attempt of Analyses, Menora Year Book (Germany, in German). (in print)

Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Short Encyclopedia Articles
54.            “Notes on Jewish History,” Leningradskii evreiskii almanakh, N. 14, 1987, pp. 4-6. (In Russian)
55.             “’Yid’ is a Bona Fide Literary Term (On a book by A. Romanenko, On the Class Essence of Zionism, Leningrad, 1986, 354 pages), Glasnost’, N. 8, 1987. (In Russian) Also: Russkaya mysl, 8.1.1988. Republished in English by the Center for Democracy in the U.S.S.R., New York, 1987, pp. 42-44.
56.            “Contemporary Jewish Periodicals in the USSR,” Jews & Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, N.2 (12), 1990, pp. 69-77.
57.             “Jewish Periodicals in the USSR, 1990-1991: A Bibliography,” Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, N.3 (19), 1992, pp. 62-77. See also: Our Press: World Federation of Jewish Journalists, N. 11, 1993, pp. 43-45; Hayitonut shelanu, N. 11, 1993, pp. 42-44. (In Hebrew); Undzere press, N. 11, 1993, pp. 47-50. (in Yiddish)
58.            “Introduction,” Evreiskii Samizdat, Vol. 27, 1992, pp. VIII-IX. (In Russian and in Hebrew)
59.            “Subject Index, 1985-1993, Numbers 1-20,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N.2 (21), 1993, pp. 97-109. Co-author - Yisrael Cohen.
60.            “Ukraine,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 364.
61.            “Belarus,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 117.
62.            “Moldova,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 281-282.
63.            “Uzbekistan,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 384-385.
64.            “Georgia,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 160-161.
65.            “Azerbaijan,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 114-115.
66.            “Latvia,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 270-271.
67.            “Lithuania,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 272.
68.            “Estonia,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 147.
69.            “Tadzhikistan,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 356.
70.            “Kazakhstan,” Encyclopedia Judaica Decennial Book, 1983-1992, Jerusalem, 1994, col. 260.
71.            “Jewish Periodicals in the Former Soviet Union, 1992-1993,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N.2 (24), 1994, pp.72-84. Co-author - Irina Klimenko.
72.             “Memoirs of the Last of the Old Timers (review of Saul Borovoi’s, Vospominania [Memoirs], Moscow, 1993),” Jews in Eastern Europe, N.3 (25), 1994, pp.73-76.
73.             “New publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 3 (28), 1995, pp. 78-81.
74.            “New Publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 1 (29), 1996, pp. 82-86.
75.            “New Publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 2(30), 1996, pp. 84-87. Co-author - Israel Cohen.
76.            “New Publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 3(31), 1996, pp. 76-79.
77.            “Subject Index, 1985-1993, Numbers 1-30,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N.3 (31), 1996, pp. i-xvii. Co-author - Yisrael Cohen.
78.            “New Publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 1(32), 1997, pp. 83-87.
79.            “New Publications about Jews of the FSU,” Jews in Eastern Europe, N. 2(33), 1997, pp. 84-87.
80.            “A Tel-Aviv Journal on East-European Jewry,” Vestnik Evreiskogo universiteta, 6 (24), 2001, pp. 287-388. (In Russian)
81.            "The Jewish Folk Music Society," Introduction to the CD "The Golden Dove. Masterpieces from the Jewish Folk Music Society," Produced by Cherina Carmel, New York, 2002. 

Papers Delivered at Conferences
 82.            “The Petrograd Jewish Community in 1917,” Moscow International Conference: The Historical Fate of the Russian Jewry, December 1989.
83.             “The Present Situation of Leningrad Jewry,” Hebrew University Seminar: The Situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union and the Absorption of Soviet Immigrants in Israel, Jerusalem, April 23, 1990.
84.             “The Response of the Soviet Press to the Middle East Crisis of 1967 and the Six Day War,” Hebrew University Seminar: The Response of  the Diaspora Jewry Press to the Middle East Crisis of 1967 and the Six Day War, Jerusalem, May 13, 1992.
85.             “The Liquidation of the Remnants of Jewish Life in Leningrad in the Late 1930s,” The 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, June 22-29, 1993.
86.            “The Jewish Minority in Leningrad, 1917-1939,” The Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, March 25-27, 1995.
87.            “Opening of Russian Archives: Discoveries, Expectations and Disappointments in the Jewish Historiography,” Round Table, The 18^th Congress of the Society for Slavonic and East-European Studies, Tel-Aviv University, May 1995.
88.            “Leningrad’s Jewish Community in the 1920s,” The 27th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington DC, October 26-29, 1995.
89.            “Religious Reform: An Option for the Jews of Russia in the first Quarter of the 20th century? Example of St. Petersburg-Leningrad,” The Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1997.
90.            “’Tevie the Milkman’ – A Mirror of the Russian Revolution: Two Worlds of Sholom-Aleichem,” Seventh Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Korolev (Moscow), January-February 2000.
91.             “Restitution of Synagogues to Jewish Communities in the CIS – Problems and Achievements,” The Thirteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2001.
92.             “Jewish Samizdat in Leningrad in the 1980s: Leningrad Jewish Almanac,” Centers of the Zionists Movement in Russia: History and Culture,” International Scientific Conference, Moscow, October 2001.
93.            “Dubnov’s Theory of Autonomism and Its Practice in the Commonwealth of Independent States,” Shimon Dubnov as a Historian and a Public Figure. A Study Day in Commemoration of the Sixty Years of the Murder of Dubnov by the Nazis, Jerusalem, December 2001.
94.            "Benya Krick in Odessa: Historical Background," Conference on Jewish Studies, Odessa, 2002.
95.            "Case of Rabbi, Scholar and Public Figure Moses Schorr," Co-author – Israel Bartal, Conference on Jewish Studies, Kiev, September, 2003.
96.            "Murder of Professor Friedlaender and Rabbi Cantor," Sefer Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, February 2003
97.            "Jews in the Big City: The Case of Leningrad," Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewry, Jerusalem, December 2003.
98.             "Fate of Synagogues in FSU," Future of Jewish Heritage in Europe, Prague, April 2004.

Appendix. List of the Journals 

American Jewish Archives Journal – HUC (Cincinnati)
East-European Jewish Affairs  (formerly – Soviet Jewish Affairs) – London. Editor – Howard Spier
Glasnost’ Information Bulletin – Moscow. Editor – S. Grigoryants.
 Jewish Samizdat – Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Editor – Yuri Kolker.
Jews and Jewish Topics in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe – The Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Jews in Eastern Europe – The Center for Research and Documentation of East European Jewry, since 2001 – The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Chief Editor – Mordechai Altshuler.
Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe – The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East Europe Jewry and The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry. Chief Editor – Mordechai Altshuler.
The Journal of the Academic Proceedings of Soviet Jewry – London. Editor – Martin Gilbert.
Leningradskii evreiskii almanach – Jewish samizdat journal; appeared in Leningrad in 1982-1989. Editors – Michael Beizer, Semen Frumkin, Victor Birkan.
Narod i zemlya. Journal of Jewish Culture – Jerusalem. Chief Editor – Felix Dektor.
Our Press, World Federation of Jewish Journalists – Tel-Aviv. Editor – G. Hel.
Soviet Jewish Affairs – Institute of Jewish Affairs, London. Editor - Lukasz Hirszowicz.
Shvut: Studies in Russian and East European Jewish History and Culture – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel-Aviv University. Editor – Benjamin Pinkus.
Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Moscow State University, Jewish University of Moscow. Chief Editor – Israel Bartal.
Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta v Moskve – Jewish University of Moscow. Chief Editor – Mark Kupovetsky.
Vestnik evreiskoi kultury – Riga. Chief Editor – Andrei Dozortsev.
Yehudei Berit Hamoatsot  [Bemaavar] (Publications on Soviet Jewry) – Jerusalem. Editor – David Prital.