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# Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. His first book, Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, won the Koret Jewish Book Award.

**Historian and author**

## Books

- [To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause](/book/to-the-success-of-our-hopeless-cause)