Dr. Zvi Gitelman

Zvi Gitelman is professor emeritus of political science and Preston Tisch Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He has written or edited seventeen books and many articles on Soviet, East European and Israeli politics, and on Russian and East European Jews. They include Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the Soviet Union (1997); A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union (2001); Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: an Uncertain Ethnicity (2012), and The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in Israel, the U.S. and Germany (2016). He has been a visiting professor in Israel, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine, and a Fellow at Harvard, Oxford, Penn, Princeton, the Hebrew University and the YIVO Institute. Dr. Gitelman is active at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. He received his Ph.D. and an M.A. from Columbia University, an A.B., suma cum laude, from Columbia College, and a B.A. from the Jewish Theological Seminary.