Eileen Kane is a historian of modern Russia and the author of Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell University Press, 2015). She teaches modern European history at Connecticut College, where she also directs the program in Global Islamic Studies.
Eileen Kane
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Writing on Public Books
Minorities and Myths: Antisemitism in Europe after 1919
Why were Jews not free from antisemitism anywhere in interwar Europe, even in places—like the USSR—where it was officially condemned?[none-for-homepage]
The Revolution’s Failed Promise to Women
On a recent research trip to Tbilisi, I stayed with a retired math professor and master storyteller named Tsiala in the communal apartment she’d remade …
