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Zvi Y. Gitelman Professor Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies Research Scientist, Center for Russian and East European Studies Ph.D., Columbia 7759 Haven Hall, (734) 763-4393 zvigitel@umich.edu Curriculum Vitae Research Interests: Comparative Government and Politics Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Zvi Gitelman studies ethnicity and politics, especially in former Communist countries,  Israeli politics, and Jewish political thought and behavior. He is completing a book on ethnic identities among Jews in post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine. Gitelman has collected oral histories of Soviet Jewish veterans of World War Two, and has researched Soviet archives on the Holocaust in the USSR in the course of his current project on ethnic relations in the Soviet armed forces during the war and Soviet policy regarding the Holocaust. Among his other current projects are an analysis of ethnicity in the Soviet secret police. His most recent edited volume is Religion or Ethnicity? The Evolution of Jewish Identities (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009)

Selected Publications

• A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (Indiana University Press, second ed. 2001).
• Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the Soviet Union (Indiana University Press, 1997).
• The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003).
• Jewish Life After the USSR (Indiana University Press, 2003).
• New Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe (Central European University Press, 2003).
• Religion or Ethnicity? The Evolution of Jewish Identities (Rutgers University Press, 2009)