Zvi Gitelman | |
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 Zvi Gitelman (2017) | |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1983) |
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Zvi Gitelman is a professor of political science that teaches Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. [1]
Gitelman received a Ph.D.,an M.A.,and a B.A. degree from Columbia University. [2] [3] He has usually written about the connection of ethnicity and politics especially in former Communist countries. He has also written about Israeli politics,East European politics,as well as Jewish political attitude. [4] Gitelman received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983. [5]
He is married to Marlene Gitelman. He has two children,and six grandchildren.[ citation needed ]
The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. "For two centuries –wrote Zvi Gitelman –millions of Jews had lived under one entity,the Russian Empire and [its successor state] the USSR. They had now come under the jurisdiction of fifteen states,some of which had never existed and others that had passed out of existence in 1939." Before the revolutions of 1989 which resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe,a number of these now sovereign countries constituted the component republics of the Soviet Union.
Jehuda Reinharz served as President of Brandeis University from 1994–2010. He was the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis. He is the president and CEO of the Jack,Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. On September 25,2009,Reinharz announced his retirement as President of Brandeis,but at the request of the Board of Trustees,he stayed on until a replacement could be hired. On January 1,2011,Reinharz became president and CEO of the Jack,Joseph,and Morton Mandel Foundation.
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