Oleg Budnitskii

Oleg Budnitskii is a Visiting Professor at Yale’s Program in Jewish Studies. From 2011-2023, he was the founding director of the International Center for the History and Sociology of WWII and its Consequences, National Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He is the author or coauthor of 10 books, and editor or coeditor of 27 other volumes on imperial Russian, Soviet, and modern Jewish history. Among his books are War, Conquest, and Catastrophe (Jews in the Soviet Union: A History, 1939–1945) (NYU Press, 2022, coauthored with David Engel, Gennady Estraikh, and Anna Shternshis) and Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). He is on the editorial boards of the Russian Review and East European Jewish Affairs. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowships and grants from the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Fulbright Program, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, MacArthur Foundation, and IREX.