Zvi Gitelman

Zvi Gitelman is professor emeritus of political science and Preston Tisch Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Author or editor of nineteen books, in 2012 Gitelman published Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity, based on several thousand interviews. His edited volume, The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany, was published in 2016. His book A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union (1988, 2001) has been translated into Japanese and Russian. He is completing a volume on Soviet Jews between 1967 and 1991 for NYU Press. Gitelman is a member of several editorial boards and is currently active with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is on the board of directors of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Blavatnik Family Archive Foundation. He is the coeditor, with Todd M. Endelman, of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918–1939.