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Petersburg Jewish University (PJU) was established in November 1989. It was among the first non-official universities in the former USSR which had received the state recognition (in 1992). The University is aimed at combining scientific research, cultural and educational tasks.

In 1992 the University started an extensive publishing program. Four issues of "Proceedings in Judaica" came out in the series "History and ethnography". Together with the Russian National Library the University had prepared and published a bibliographical guide "Literature about Jews in Russian language, 1890 - 1947". This publication is the most comprehensive of all existing analogous works.

Besides scholarly publications, Petersburg Jewish University had produced several books of popular and educational character. From 1993 the university has been publishing the teachers training quarterly "The Jewish school". It is devoted to problems of Jewish education in the former Soviet Union.

At the present, the University is preparing for publication two new issues of the series "Petersburg Judaica":

• D.Elyashevich The Government policy and Jewish press in Russia, 1797 - 1917. Essays on history of the censorship
• E.Melamed On Jewish themes. Sketches and findings

The new research collection "Greeks and Jews: Dialogue through generations" is prepared and will open the new series called "Philosophy. Theory of culture. Hermeneutics". The University also plans to start "Jewish memoirs" series, which would present unknown personal accounts of Jewish life in the Russian Empire and the USSR. This series will contain the following issues:

• Dubnov S. Book of life
• Ginzburg S. Petersburg of yesterday (translated from Yiddish)
• Vengerova P. Memoirs of a grandmother (translated from German)
• Margulis M. My memoirs
• Beilis M. A story of my sufferings (translated from Yiddish)
• Zionism in Russia. Selected of memoirs
• Vanished life. Russian Jewish emigrants about themselves and their past

Selected Bibliography of PJU Publications:

Jewish history in Russia: Problems of source study and historiography: Collected articles / Petersburg Jewish University; Institute of Jewish Diaspora; Edited by D.Elyashevich. St. Petersburg, 1993. 180 p. - (Proceedings in Judaica. History and ethnography series. Issue 1). In Russian.

History of Jews in Ukraine and Belorussia. Expeditions. Monuments. Findings: Collected articles / Petersburg Jewish University; Institute of Jewish Diaspora; Edited by V.Dymshits. St. Petersburg, 1994. 224 p., ill. - (Proceedings in Judaica. History and ethnography series. Issue 2). In Russian.

Jews in Russia: History and culture: Collected articles / Petersburg Jewish University; Institute of Jewish Diaspora; Edited by D.Elyashevich. St. Petersburg, 1994. 214 p. - (Proceedings in Judaica. History and ethnography series. Issue 3). In Russian.

Documentary Sources on Jewish History in the Archives of the CIS and the Baltic States: Preliminary list of archival holdings / Petersburg Jewish University; Institute of Jewish Diaspora; Russian State University for the Humanities; Historical-Archival Institute, Center of Archival Research; Compiled by D.Elyashevich. St. Petersburg: Akropol, 1994. 136 p. In Russian.

Jews in Central Asia. Past and Present: Expeditions, research, publications: Collected articles / Petersburg Jewish University; Institute of Jewish Diaspora; Compiled by I.Dvorkin, T.Vyshenskaia. St. Petersburg, 1995. 300 p., ill. - (Proceedings in Judaica. History and ethnography series. Issue 4). In Russian.

Literature on Jews in Russian, 1890 - 1947. Books, brochures, reprint of articles, periodicals. Bibliographical Index / Petersburg Jewish University, Russian National Library; Compiled by V.Kelner, D.Elyashevich; Edited by M.Benina. St. Petersburg: Humanitarian agency "Academic project", 1995. 680 p. In Russian.

Blyum A. Jewish question under soviet censorship, 1917 - 1991 / Petersburg Jewish University. Edited by D.Elyashevich. St. Petersburg, 1996. 186 p. - (Petersburg Judaica series, vol. 1). In Russian.

Jewish schools on the territory of the former Soviet Union: Guide-book. St. Petersburg: Petersburg Jewish University, 1996. 114 p. In Russian and English.

Jewish Schools in the Former Soviet Union: Guide-book / Petersburg Jewish University; Compiled by F.Averbakh, E.Lvova. St. Petersburg: N.Novikov publishing house, 1997. 120 p. In Russian and English.