Zvi Gitelman

Guest Contributor

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Michigan

Areas of Expertise

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.