Henryk Baran is a

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, and

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currently at the

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( SUNY) holding a position in the ''Department of Languages, Literature & Culture''. He is particularly immersed in the

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and culture. He is also an authority on the 'career' of

Protocols of Zion ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' () or ''The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion'' is a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination. The hoax was plagiarized from several ...

in the former

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. After attending the Bronx High School of Science, and achieving early admission to MIT, Prof. Baran received his

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from the

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in 1967. He received his

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and

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from

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in 1969, and his

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in 1976. Of particular interest to historians of the notorious

is Baran's presentation of his research on two individuals,

Sergei Svatikov Sergei Grigorievich Svatikov (Russian: Серге́й Григо́рьевич Сва́тиков; 1880 – 25 January 1942) was a Russian historian and political figure who presented critical evidence and/or testimony in 1935 in the Berne Trial ...

(1880–1942), and

Alexandre du Chayla Count Armand Alexandre de Blanquet du Chayla (25 March 1885 – 1945) was a French nobleman who converted to Russian Orthodoxy. He is chiefly remembered for giving crucial evidence and/or testimony for the prosecution at the Berne Trial in 1935 aga ...

(1885–1945). The former was a historian, and a political figure. The latter was a French

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who converted to

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. Both played significant roles, on the side of the prosecution against the ''Protocols'', at the

Berne Trial The Berne Trial (also known under the name of "Zionistenprozess") was a famous court case in Berne, Switzerland which took place between 1933 and 1935. Two organisations, the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities () and the Bernese Jewish Commun ...

of 1935. Until this presentation, not much was known about these individuals apart from their public participation at said trial. Prof. Baran made his presentation (in a paper) based on Western and Russian archival repositories. His paper presents new light on the relationship among Svatikov, Du Chayla, and on other individuals who either presented evidence or testified at the Berne Trial. Other individuals considered include Elias Tscherikower, a historian, and

Vladimir Burtsev Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev (russian: Владимир Львович Бурцев; November 17, 1862August 21, 1942) was a revolutionary activist, scholar, publisher and editor of several Russian language periodicals. He became famous by exposing ...

, a journalist and a political figure.

Academic focus

Russian Silver Age literature, Russian avant-garde; poetics; history of Slavic philology within a broad intellectual and political context; history of the forgery "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"

Life

Three-time Fulbright Award winner, Henryk Baran of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures has taught more than 60 courses in his long and distinguished career, and was recognized for his research contributions last July with an honorary doctorate from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Baran received his graduate training in the Slavic Department of Harvard University, where he studied with Roman Jakobson, one of the leading scholars of language, literature and linguistics in the 20th century and an expert on Russian poetry. Baran's dissertation was a study of Russian futurist poet Velmir Khlebnikov. Even before completing his dissertation, he published two papers on Khlebnikov, one in a festschrift for Taranovsky and the other in the literary journal Russian Literature. Baran's research has been included in 70 articles and book chapters, as well as four edited books. A founding editor of Elementa: Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics, Baran was also associate editor of the Slavic and East European Journal. His administrative experience at UAlbany includes seven years as department chair and service as graduate adviser and coordinator for the Slavic studies program. Baran has also been invited to speak at some of the most prestigious departments and programs both here and abroad, including those at Harvard, Princeton, NYU, Ohio State University, Oberlin College, Institute of Russian Language (Moscow), Institute of World Literature (Moscow), Helsinki University and Russian State University of the Humanities (Moscow).

Works

*''Semiotics and structuralism:'' :''readings from the Soviet Union'' :edited with an introduction by Henryk Baran :translated by

William Mandel William Marx Mandel (June 4, 1917 – November 24, 2016) was an American broadcast journalist, left-wing political activist, and author, best known as a Soviet affairs analyst. He was born in New York City. Senator McCarthy and the House Un-Am ...

, Henryk Baran, and A. J. Hollander :(White Plains, NY: International Arts and Science Press, 1976) : *''Jakobsonian poetics and Slavic narrative:'' :''from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn'' :Krystyna Pomorska; edited by Henryk Baran. :(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992) : *''Roman I︠A︡kobson:'' :''teksty, dokumenty, issledovanii︠a︡'' : edakt︠s︡ionnai︠a︡ kollegii︠a︡, Kh. Báran (otv. redaktor) ... et al.:= Roman Jakobson : texts, documents, studies / ditorial board, Henryk Baran (chair) ... et al.:(Moskva: Rossiĭskiĭ gos. gumanitarnyĭ universitet, 1999) : *''Evaluation of education and research in Slavonic and Baltic studies'' :Henryk Baran ...

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:(Helsinki: Edita, 2000?) : *''O Khlebnikove: konteksty, istochniki, mify'' :Khenrik Baran. :(Moskva: Rossiĭskiĭ gos. gumanitarnyĭ universitet, 2002) : *''Pisʹma i zametki N.S. Trubet︠s︡kogo : stup. st. V.N. Toporova ; podgot. k izd. R. I︠A︡kobsona pri uchastii Kh. Barana, O. Ronena, M. Teĭlor:(Moskva: I︠A︡zyki slavi︠a︡nskoĭ kulʹtury, 1975, 2004) :

External links

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