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Theodore R. Weeks is professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia (NIU Press, 1996) and From Assimilation to Antisemitism (NIU Press, 2006). He is also author of Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR, 1861-1945 and coauthor of Making Europe: People, Politics, and Culture.

This book is an important contribution to knowledge for Western audiences about an unusually diverse city on the borders of several cultural, religious/confessional, linguistic, and political communities. David Frick, author of Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

Only a scholar with Weeks's aptitude for languages could pull off a project of this complexity, yet it is his impressive facility in English that makes this important book a pleasure to read. -CHOICE The book is truly edifying in the careful and enlightening connections it makes between the local and the global, setting the city of Vilnius in its rightful place on the stage of European history. -Journal of Modern History Vilnius Between Nations is a well-written, meticulously researched, fresh, and innovative contribution to our knowledge of the history of Vilnius, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Eastern Europe in general. -Canadian Journal of History Vilnius Between Nations is a substantial scholarly achievement. Weeks has distilled a vast multilingual literature, supplemented with many printed and manuscript sources. He writes clearly in a measured, humane tone, and makes every effort to be fair and balanced in his judgments. -Slavonic and East European Review This book is an important contribution to knowledge for Western audiences about an unusually diverse city on the borders of several cultural, religious/confessional, linguistic, and political communities. -David Frick, author of Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

Only a scholar with Weeks's aptitude for languages could pull off a project of this complexity, yet it is his impressive facility in English that makes this important book a pleasure to read. --CHOICE Vilnius Between Nations is a well-written, meticulously researched, fresh, and innovative contribution to our knowledge of the history of Vilnius, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Eastern Europe in general. --Canadian Journal of History Vilnius Between Nations is a substantial scholarly achievement. Weeks has distilled a vast multilingual literature, supplemented with many printed and manuscript sources. He writes clearly in a measured, humane tone, and makes every effort to be fair and balanced in his judgments. --Slavonic and East European Review This book is an important contribution to knowledge for Western audiences about an unusually diverse city on the borders of several cultural, religious/confessional, linguistic, and political communities. --David Frick, author of Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno Only a scholar with Weeks s aptitude for languages could pull off a project of this complexity, yet it is his impressive facility in English that makes this important book a pleasure to read. CHOICE This book is an important contribution to knowledge for Western audiences about an unusually diverse city on the borders of several cultural, religious/confessional, linguistic, and political communities. David Frick, author of Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno This book is an important contribution to knowledge for Western audiences about an unusually diverse city on the borders of several cultural, religious/confessional, linguistic, and political communities. David Frick, author of Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

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Theodore R. Weeks is professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia and From Assimilation to Antisemitism. He is also author of Across the Revolutionary Divide and coauthor of Making Europe.

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