Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Born	Ivan Petrovsky (1962-04-06) April 6, 1962 (age 62) Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	American
Other names	Ivan Petrovsky
Occupation(s)	Historian, Philologist, Academic
Academic background
Alma mater	Moscow University (PhD) Brandeis University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Antony Polonsky Moshe (Murray) Rosman Shaul Stampfer
Academic work
Discipline	Jewish History and Religion
Institutions	Northwestern University Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Warsaw Harvard University

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born April 6, 1962) is an American historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis Borges' works into Russian.^[1] He is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University where he teaches Early Modern, Modern and East European Jewish history.