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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

Professor Gitelman studies ethnicity and politics, especially in former Communist countries and in Israel. He is writing a book on ethnic identities among Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the United States. Gitelman has collected oral histories of Soviet Jewish veterans of World War Two, and has researched Soviet archives on the Holocaust in the USSR. The project aims to fill in 'blank spots' in Soviet history and to understand ethnic relations and ethnic motivations in the Soviet armed forces during the war. Among his other current projects are analyses of ethnicity in the Soviet secret police and the role of Jews in East European Communist movements. His forthcoming edited volumes are Revolution, Repression and Revival: the Soviet Jewish Experience (Rowman and Littlefield) and Judaism and Jewishness: The Evolution of Secular and Religious Jewish Identities (Rutgers University Press).

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).
• (With Valeriy Chervyakov and Vladimir Shapiro), “The Ethnicity of Russian and Ukrainian Jews,” (East European Jewish Affairs, 31, 2, Fall 2001) 1-17.
• “Internationalism, Patriotism and Disillusion: Soviet Jewish Veterans Remember World War Two,” in John Roth and Elizabeh Maxwell, eds., Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide (Palgrave, 2001) 296-308.
• “The ‘Russian Revolution’ in Israeli Politics,” in Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, eds., The Elections in Israel 1999 (State University of New York Press, 2002), 141-164.
• “Collective Memory and Contemporary Polish-Jewish Relations,” in Joshua Zimmerman, ed., Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and its Aftermath (Rutgers Universit y Press, 2002).