Professor Emeritus
About
Zvi Gitelman studies ethnicity and politics, especially in former Communist countries, as well as Israeli politics, East European politics, and Jewish political thought and behavior. His most recent edited book is The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2016). In 2012 Cambridge University Press published his Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity which drew on two large surveys that he conducted with two colleagues in Russia. Gitelman is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on Jewish thought, politics and literatures in the interwar (1918-1939) period (Yale University Press).He is writing a book on ethnic relations in the Soviet armed forces and the partisans during the war, and Soviet policy regarding the Holocaust.
Courses Taught:
- Ethnicity and Politics
- Jewish Political Thought and Experiences: Eastern Europe, America and Israel
- Israeli Politics and Society
- The Politics and Culture of Modern East European Jewry
Affiliations:
- Center for Russian and East European Studies
- Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Fields of Study:
- Politics of Eastern Europe
- Race, Ethnicity and Politics
- Judaic Studies
