COJECO RSJ Symposium
Zvi Gitelman
Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan
zvigitel@umich.edu
Professor Zvi Gitelman is a prize-winning teacher and the author or editor of seventeen books, including the acclaimed A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union Since 1881 (Indiana University Press, 2001), which has been translated into Japanese and Russian. He is a Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has been teaching for 47 years. Gitelman is a leading authority on Russian Jewry and modern Jewish communities and politics in Israel and Eastern Europe. His recent books include Ethnicity or Religion? The Evolution of Jewish Identities (Rutgers University Press, 2009), and Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: an Uncertain Ethnicity (Cambridge University Press, 2012). In July 2016 Rutgers University Press will publish his edited book, The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany.
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