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Eileen Kane

Eileen Kane

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. icon

Minorities and Myths: Antisemitism in Europe after 1919

By Eileen Kane

Why were Jews not free from antisemitism anywhere in interwar Europe, even in places—like the USSR—where it was officially condemned?

The Revolution’s Failed Promise to Women

By Eileen Kane

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 ...

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