Zvi Y. Gitelman is Professor of Political Science, Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, and former Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Professor Gitelman is author of numerous works on the Soviet Union and Soviet Jewry, including A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (1988, 2001) and Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the Soviet Union (1997). Among his recently published books are The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe (2003) and Jewish Life after the USSR (2003). He is editor and contributor to New Jewish Identities: Contemporary Europe and Beyond (2003).
