Zvi Gitelman is a Professor of
Political Science
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, and Professor of Judaic Studies at the
University of Michigan
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.
Career
Gitelman received a Ph.D., an M.A., and a B.A. degree from
Columbia University
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. 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. Gitelman received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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in 1983.
He is married to Marlene Gitelman. He has two children, and six grandchildren.
Publications
*''Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics'' (1972)
*''Becoming Israelis: Political Resocialization of Soviet and American Immigrants'' (1982)
*''A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present'' (1988; 2001)
*''Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR'' (1997)
*''Jewish Life after the USSR'' (2003)
References
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Living people
Jewish scholars
University of Michigan faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni