Alek Epstein
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Sociologist; Political scientist
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Alek Epstein's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
- Masters Political Science Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alek D. Epstein is a Russian-Israeli sociologist of culture and politics. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Moscow, taking part in a number of academic, educational, social change and civil rights activism projects in both countries. He has published more than 200 manuscripts in various scientific journals and collections and authored more than 20 books on Israel and the Middle East.
Alek Epstein's Published Works
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- Cultural clash and educational diversity: Immigrant teachers' efforts to rescue the education of immigrant children in Israel (2000) (45)
- Immigrant intelligentsia and its second generation: Cultural segregation as a road to social integration? (2000) (29)
- English as a central component of success in the professional and social integration of scientists from the former Soviet Union in Israel (2001) (27)
- Confronting the languages of statehood: Theoretical and historical frameworks for the analysis of the multilingual identity of the Russian Jewish intelligentsia in Isra (2001) (18)
- Looking for Pontius Pilate's footprints near the Western Wall: Russian Jewish tourists in Jerusalem. (2001) (11)
- The Imprint of the Int fad: Response of Kibbutz-Born Soldiers to Military Service in the West Bank and Gaza (2000) (10)
- For the peoples of the promised land: Intellectual and social origins of Jewish pacifism in Israel∗ (1998) (10)
- Languages of Science in the Era of Nation-state Formation: The Israeli Universities and Their (non)Participation in the Revival of Hebrew (2005) (9)
- The impact of Jewish identity on the psychological adjustment of Soviet Jewish immigrants to Israel. (1996) (6)
- State-mediated “hierarchy of diversities” and the freedom of individual self-identification: Towards a dynamic liberal model of muticulturalism (1999) (6)
- Languages of higher education in contemporary Israel (2005) (5)
- The freedom of conscience and sociological perspectives on dilemmas of collective secular disobedience: The case of Israel (2002) (4)
- Israeli sociolinguistics: From Hebrew hegemony to Israeli plurilingualism (2009) (4)
- The Current Sociological Agenda of Israel Studies in Israel/USA and Russia: A Reexamination (2004) (2)
- Violating the Mores, Seizing the Guards: The Riot of the 'Youth of Perestroika' in an Israeli Military Jail (2002) (2)
- 4. Israeli Culture(s) Today: Globalized Archipelago of Isolated Communities (2016) (1)
- Confronting the socio-psychological environment: Feminist/political art protest in contemporary Russia from Pussy Riot to ‘Spiritual Combat’ exhibition (2016) (1)
- Reconsidering the Development of Academic Jewish and Israel Studies in Russian (2008) (1)
- Ulrich Ammon (ed.), The dominance of English as a language of science: Effects on other languages and language communities. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xiii + 478. Hb. DM 256.00. (2002) (1)
- Adult Language Education in a Multilingual Situation: The Post-Soviet Immigrants in Israel (2005) (1)
- Non-Self-Evident Memory: Post-Soviet Jewry and the Holocaust (2013) (0)
- DEFENDING DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL RIGHTS: JERUSALEM'S ACADEMIC COMMUNITY IN THE ERA OF STATE-BUILDING (2016) (0)
- A Weapon to Destroy Israel: Arab States' Struggle Against Solving the Palestinian Refugee Problem (2006) (0)
- The Lost Gambit: The Third War between Israel and Egypt, its Causes and Lessons (2019) (0)
- Marginalization and Demarginalization of Immigrants: Diversity Management Strategies in Education (2017) (0)
- Intellectuals’ freedom and the lack of intellectuals’ accountability: Israeli case in comparative perspective (2009) (0)
- Judging the Trial: Hannah Arendt as a Moral Philosopher of Nation-State Building (2014) (0)
- Seizing the Guards, Violating the Mores: The Riot of the Youth of Perestroika in an Israeli Military Jail (2005) (0)
- A Land of Two Nations: Baruch Kimmerling's Intellectual Legacy (2011) (0)
- Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi (eds), The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2009; 643 pp.: ISBN 9781890951924, US$38.95 (2011) (0)
- Immigrant Scientists from the USSR: Socio-Linguistic Self-Identification and Professional Integration in Israel (2005) (0)
- Features of the Political System and Political Culture of the State of Israel (2017) (0)
- Israel-Egypt Agreements of 1974–1975 in the Context of Regional and International Relations: A New Perspective (2021) (0)
- Constructing the National Identity: Jewish Education in Russia Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War (2008) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- Jewish Education and Its Outcomes: Knowledge and Interests among Jewish Summer Camp Participants in the Former Soviet Union (2012) (0)
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