Professor Ben Nathans wins 2025 Pultizer Prize for Nonfiction

Benjamin Nathans

Winning Work

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
By Benjamin Nathans

Benjamin Nathans is the author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia, which was awarded the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Vucinich Book Prize, and the Lincoln Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement, Nathans is the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Congratulations, Professor Nathans!