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Jonathan Dekel-Chen

Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen

Academic Chairman
+972-2-5881948
jonathan.dekel-chen@mail.huji.ac.il

 

Starting in 2024, Jonathan Dekel-Chen resumed his position as an Academic Chairman of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry for an additional term.  

Jonathan Dekel-Chen is the Rabbi Edward Sandrow Chair in Soviet & East European Jewry at the Hebrew University. He holds a dual appointment in the Department of Jewish History and in the Department of General History. He served as the Academic Chairman of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry from 2009-2015 and Chairman of the Russian Studies Department and Jewish History Department. Prof. Dekel-Chen has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania (2008-2009), Columbia University (2015-2016), and Rutgers University (2021-2022). His research and publications deal with the modern Jewish world, Applied Humanities, transnational philanthropy and advocacy, non-state diplomacy, agrarian history, and migration.

In 2014 he co-founded the Bikurim Youth Village for the Arts in Eshkol, which provides world-class artistic training for gifted, under-served high school students from throughout Israel.

 

Semion Goldin

Dr. Semion Goldin

Academic Coordinator
+972-2-5881771
semyon.goldin@mail.huji.ac.il

Dr. Goldin is responsible for the programmatic development and administrative aspects of the Nevzlin Center. Semion Goldin received his PhD cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His dissertation published as monograph, focuses on Russian army policy towards Jews from 1914 to 1917. Dr Goldin teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published several articles on various topics of East European Jewish history in the twentieth century.

Current Academic Board

Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, chairman

Prof. Alexander Kulik

Prof. Eli Lederhendler

Dr. Julia Rubanovich

Prof. Giddon Ticotsky

Prof. Yfaat Weiss

 

Past Academic Boards

2019 - 2021

Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, chairman
Prof. Israel Bartal
Dr. Ofer Dines
Prof. Eli Lederhendler
Dr. Julia Rubanovich
Prof. Yfaat Weiss

2016 - 2019

Prof. Alexander Yakobson, chairman
Prof. Israel Bartal
Prof. Daniel Blatman
Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Dr. Tamar Hess
Prof. Alexander Kulik
Prof. Moche Taube

2012 - 2016

Prof. Moshe Taube, chairman
Prof. Israel Bartal
Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Dr. Vladimir Khazan
Prof. Alexander Kulik
Prof. Gur Ofer
Prof. Alexander Yakobson

2009 – 2012
Prof. Moshe Taube, chairman
Prof. Israel Bartal
Prof. Uri Bialer
Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Prof. Dan Diner
Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Dr. Alexander Kulik
Prof. Gur Ofer
Prof. Gideon Shimoni

2006 – 2009
Dr. Alexander Yakobson, chairman
Prof. Mordechai Altshuler
Prof. Israel Bartal
Dr. Daniel Blatman
Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen
Prof. Dan Diner
Prof. Jonathan Frankel (z”l)
Dr. Korina Kagan
Prof. Avraham Novershtern
Prof. Shaul Stampfer
Prof. Moshe Taube

2003 – 2006
Prof. Eli Lederhendler, chairman
Prof. Mordechai Altshuler
Prof. Israel Bartal
Prof. Mara Beller (z”l)
Prof. Uri Bialer
Dr. Yitzhak Brudny
Prof. Dan Diner
Prof. Jonathan Frankel (z”l)
Dr. Michael Silber
Prof. Leona Toker
Prof. Avraham Novershtern
Prof. Alexander Yakobson