Boris Czerny

Boris Czerny is a professor of Russian literature and civilization, and a specialist in Jewish civilization in the former Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He is currently working on the reconstruction of the Brest ghetto. This work includes a scholarly component whose aim is to determine who the Jews of Brest were who were massacred by the Nazis in October 1942. This research also has a memorial dimension. He is also interested in areas of cultural transfer between Jewish communities in Ukraine and Belarus and their non-Jewish “neighbors” in Odessa, the Carpathians, and Belarus.

Articles by Boris Czerny