Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

American academic

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1962

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Profession: linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (born April 6, 1962) is an American historian, philologist and essayist, noted in particular for his studies of the institution of Cantonism, his critique of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's controversial two volume-work about Jews in Russia, Two Hundred Years Together, as well as translations of Jorge Luis Borges' works into Russian.
He is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in History Department at Northwestern University where he teaches Early Modern, Modern and East European Jewish history.