Zvi Gitelman
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

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 nineteen books and many articles on Soviet, East European and Israeli politics. The books include A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (translated into Russian and Japanese); 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). Gitelman’s current research is on Soviet Jewish combatants in World War Two, the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, and the politics of history in the former socialist states.

 

Selected Publications

Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics (Princeton University Press, 1972),

“The Politics of Socialist Restoration in Hungary and Czechoslovakia,” Comparative Politics XIII, 2 (January, 1981)

(with Wayne DiFranceisco) “Soviet Political Culture and ‘Covert Participation’ in Policy Implementation,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 78, No.3 (September 1984)

A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union (Schocken, 1988; Indiana, 2001)

Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: an Uncertain Ethnicity (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Editor and Contributor, The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel and Germany (Rutgers University Press, 2016)