Dr. Gruber's scholarly work addresses issues in Russian religious history, Jewish history, and languages in history. Selected publications are listed below.
Book
Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012)
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“‘The Journeys of My Soul in This Land of Canaan’ by Yitshak ben Sirota,” in Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 900-1400, ed. Donald Ostrowski and Christian Raffensperger (NY: Routledge, 2017) Read PDF
Co-edited collection
Russia Beyond the Traditional Boundaries: Essays in Honor of David M. Goldfrank, ed. Michael G. Smith, Isaiah Gruber, and Sandra Pujals, special double issue of Russian History, 41.1-2 (2014) Read TOC
Articles
“Jewish History in Patriarchal Muscovy: Toward an Understanding of Old and New Jerusalems,” in The Moscow Patriarchate (1589-1721): Power, Belief, Image, and Legitimacy, ed. Kevin M. Kain and Wolfram von Scheliha (forthcoming Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019)
“The ‘Messianic’ Idea of Herrschaft in the Time of Troubles,” in Autokratische Herrschaft im Moskauer Reich in der Zeit der Wirren / Autocratic Power in Moscovy in the Time of Troubles, ed. Dittmar Dahlmann and Diana Ordubadi (forthcoming, 2019)
“Ivan Peresvetov; 'The Tale of Sultan Mehmed [II]'; 'Greater Petition',” Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 7: Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600), ed. David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2015): 278-307 Read PDF
“Lexical Daring: Muscovite Russian Experimentation with Greek Language as a Reflection of Underlying Civilizational Rivalry,” Σλάβοι και Ελληνικός Κόςμος [Slavs and the Greek World], ed. O. Alexandropoulou and P. Sophoulis (Athens: Pelekanos, 2014): 129-145 Read PDF
“From Bethlehem to Beloozero: Biblical Languages and National-Religious Boundaries in Muscovy,” Russian History 41.1 (2014): 8-22 Read PDF
“Who Counts as ‘People’ (narod)? A Reconsideration of Vox populi in the First Russian Time of Troubles (Smutnoe vremia),” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 48.1 (2014): 168-178 Read PDF
“[Review of] Dubitando: Studies in History and Culture in Honor of Donald Ostrowski,” Russian Review 72.3 (2013): 505-509 Read PDF
“[Hebrew in] Russia,” Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. Geoffrey Khan et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2013): 3.434-441 Read PDF
“Russians, Jews, and Hebrew: The Makings of Ambivalence,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 25 (2011): 119-152 Read PDF
“Musagim ‘ivriim ba-tarbut ha-rusit shel nesikhut mosqvah” (“Hebrew Concepts in the Russian Culture of Muscovy”; in Hebrew), Zmanim 116 (2011): 46-51 Read PDF
“Black Monks and White Gold: The Solovetskii Monastery’s Prosperous Salt Trade during the Time of Troubles,” Russian History 37.3 (2010): 238-249 Read PDF
“A New Sumphônia: The ‘Greek Faith’ in the Russian Time of Troubles,” From the Remote to the Recent Past, ed. Kenneth E. Hendrickson and Nicholas C. J. Pappas (Athens: ATINER, 2008): 143-154
“Issues in Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigning: A Case Study of the Smolensk Region during the 1920s,” History in the Making 6 (Montréal: Concordia University, 2000): 152-174 Read PDF
“The ‘Messianic’ Idea of Herrschaft in the Time of Troubles,” in Autokratische Herrschaft im Moskauer Reich in der Zeit der Wirren / Autocratic Power in Moscovy in the Time of Troubles, ed. Dittmar Dahlmann and Diana Ordubadi (forthcoming, 2019)
“Ivan Peresvetov; 'The Tale of Sultan Mehmed [II]'; 'Greater Petition',” Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 7: Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600), ed. David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2015): 278-307 Read PDF
“Lexical Daring: Muscovite Russian Experimentation with Greek Language as a Reflection of Underlying Civilizational Rivalry,” Σλάβοι και Ελληνικός Κόςμος [Slavs and the Greek World], ed. O. Alexandropoulou and P. Sophoulis (Athens: Pelekanos, 2014): 129-145 Read PDF
“From Bethlehem to Beloozero: Biblical Languages and National-Religious Boundaries in Muscovy,” Russian History 41.1 (2014): 8-22 Read PDF
“Who Counts as ‘People’ (narod)? A Reconsideration of Vox populi in the First Russian Time of Troubles (Smutnoe vremia),” Canadian-American Slavic Studies 48.1 (2014): 168-178 Read PDF
“[Review of] Dubitando: Studies in History and Culture in Honor of Donald Ostrowski,” Russian Review 72.3 (2013): 505-509 Read PDF
“[Hebrew in] Russia,” Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, ed. Geoffrey Khan et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2013): 3.434-441 Read PDF
“Russians, Jews, and Hebrew: The Makings of Ambivalence,” Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 25 (2011): 119-152 Read PDF
“Musagim ‘ivriim ba-tarbut ha-rusit shel nesikhut mosqvah” (“Hebrew Concepts in the Russian Culture of Muscovy”; in Hebrew), Zmanim 116 (2011): 46-51 Read PDF
“Black Monks and White Gold: The Solovetskii Monastery’s Prosperous Salt Trade during the Time of Troubles,” Russian History 37.3 (2010): 238-249 Read PDF
“A New Sumphônia: The ‘Greek Faith’ in the Russian Time of Troubles,” From the Remote to the Recent Past, ed. Kenneth E. Hendrickson and Nicholas C. J. Pappas (Athens: ATINER, 2008): 143-154
“Issues in Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigning: A Case Study of the Smolensk Region during the 1920s,” History in the Making 6 (Montréal: Concordia University, 2000): 152-174 Read PDF
