Contact Information
3148 Flb
707 S Mathews
M/C 170
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1985
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
CAS Professor, Center for Advanced Study
Highlighted Publications
Murav, H. (1992). Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique. Stanford University Press.
Murav, H. (1998). Russia's Legal Fictions. (Law, Meaning, and Violence). University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.15732
Murav, H. (2003). Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner. (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences). Stanford University Press.
Murav, H. (2011). Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia. (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture). Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804779043
Murav, H. (2019). David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity. (Jews in Eastern Europe). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcj2qj2
Recent Publications
Murav, H. (2021). Documentary Fiction of the Pogroms of the Civil War. In E. M. Avrutin, & E. Bemporad (Eds.), Pogroms: A Documentary History: A Documentary History (pp. 176-192). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190060084.003.0009
Murav, H. (2021). The Belatedness of David Bergelson and the Soviet Project. Ab Imperio, 2021(4), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2021.0091
Murav, H. (2020). From the Editor. Slavic Review, 79(4), 920. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2020.205
Murav, H. (2019). Archive of violence: Neighbors, strangers, and creatures in Itsik Kipnis’s months and days. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2019(15), 49-73.
Murav, H. (2019). David Bergelson's Strange New World: Untimeliness and Futurity. (Jews in Eastern Europe). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcj2qj2