# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yohanan-petrovsky-shtern
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:00:38.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yohanan-petrovsky-shtern"
name: "Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern"
slug: "yohanan-petrovsky-shtern"
description: "Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 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."
tagline: "American Jewish historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yohanan_Petrovsky-Shtern_2020.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.22
  momentum:             14.30217354228648
  historical:           4.81854
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://yps.gallery"
sources:
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    title: "ياوهانان پيتروڤسكى شتيرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern"
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    title: "Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Петровский-Штерн, Йоханан"
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    title: "Йоханан Петровський-Штерн"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump