Scott Ury

Scott Ury is an Associate Professor in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History where he is also Head of The Eva and Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness and Senior Editor of the journal, History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past.

Published in 2012, his monograph Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry examines the impact of the urban environment on the development of modern Jewish society and politics in what was then Europe's largest Jewish center. The book received the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). A manuscript version of the book was awarded a commendation for the Fraenkel Prize for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history from the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London.

Scott Ury is also co-editor of several volumes dedicated to various aspects of modern Jewish history and society, including: Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750, Polin 24 (Littman, 2012), Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (Routledge, 2014), Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2019), Making History Jewish: The Dialectics of Jewish History in Eastern Europe and the Middle East (Brill, 2020), Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism (Palgrave, 2021), Promised Lands: Jews, Poland and the Land of Israel, Polin 35 (Littman, 2023), and Antisemitism and the Politics of History (Brandeis, 2024, forthcoming).

Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Ury was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Toronto, and a visiting graduate student at the University of Warsaw and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Over the 2022-2023 academic year, he was the George Rohr Visiting Associate Professor of History at Harvard University.

For more information, see: https://telaviv.academia.edu/ScottUry