Dr. Alek Epstein

Updated: January 2009

 

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   Personal

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   Education

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   Fields of Research

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   Academic Appointments

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   Teaching Experience

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   Summer Schools and Mini-Courses

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   Sponsored Research

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   Grants and Awards

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   Participation in International Scientific Cooperation

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   Scientific Editorship

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   Membership on Editorial Boards

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   Membership in Professional Societies

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   Mass-Media Projects

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   Invited Reviews

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   List of Publications

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   Books

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   Edited Volumes

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   Published Manuscripts in Various Fields
     Intellectuals in Politics: The Israeli Case
     Military, Disobedience and Political Protest in Israel
     Issues in Israeli History
     Contemporary Israeli Politics
     The Arab-Israeli Conflict and its Impact on Israeli Society
     Development of Israel Studies: Ideologies and Research
     Multiculturalism: Policy Issues - Israeli Case and its Theoretical Implications
     Language and Collective Identities in Israel
     Tourism and Identity: Russian Jews in Jerusalem
     Higher Education and Science in Israel
     Immigrant Teenagers in the Israeli Educational System
     Jewish Identity and Education in Israel and the Diaspora
     Other Publications

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   Papers Presented at Scientific Conferences and Research Seminars

          
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  Education

1995

B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1997

M.A., Sociology and Anthropology (cum laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thesis: The Changing Patterns of Conscientious Objection as an Indicator for the Altering Relations Between State, Military, and Civil Society in Israel (1947-1997)
Supervisors: Baruch Kimmerling and Martin van Creveld

2001

Ph.D., Political Sociology and Contemporary Social History of Israel
Dissertation: The Involvement of the Academic Community in the Public Discourse on the Formation of the Israeli Political Culture in the Period of Labour Movement Hegemony
Supervisor: Baruch Kimmerling (1939-2007)

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  Fields of Research

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Israeli history and politics

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History of the Arab-Israeli conflict

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Intellectuals' influence on the emergence of civil society

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Civil-military relations and conscientious disobedience

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Development of Israel studies as a research field in various countries

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Emergence of the Palestinian refugee problems and unsuccessful attempts to solve it

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Immigrant scientists' and teachers' professional and social integration in Israel

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  Academic Appointments

1999-

Academic teaching faculty member and Coordinator (since 2007)for Academic Cooperation with the Russian Universities, Chais Program in Jewish and Israel Studies in Russian - Department of Sociology and Political Science, Open University of Israel, Raanana

1999-

Lecturer (since 2004 - Adjunct Professor of Sociology of Israel), Sociology of Israel, Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State Lomonosov University and the Jewish University of Moscow

2004-

Associate Professor, Sociology of Israel, Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State Lomonosov University and the Jewish University of Moscow

2000-2001, 2005-2006, 2009 -

Lecturer, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Chais Center for the Jewish Studies

2007-2008

Lecturer, Tafnit School of Management, Jerusalem

2000-2001

Guest lecturer, School of Communication and Journalism, Bloomfield College of Management, Tel-Aviv

1997-2000

Instructor, Tutor and Lecturer's assistant, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1997-1999

Lecturer's assistant, Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  Teaching Experience

1999-

Open University of Israel - courses taught: "Government and Politics in Israel," "Israel: The First Decade," "From National Home to a State in the Making: The Jewish Community in Palestine between the World Wars," "Democracy and National Security in Israel"

1999-

Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State Lomonosov University and the Jewish University of Moscow - courses taught: "Social Structure of Israel," "Contemporary Israel: Historical and Socio-Political Introduction" [with Dr. Ekaterina Usova], "The Formative Years of Israeli Statehood," "Conflicts and Cleavages in Multicultural Democratic Society: The Case of Israel," seminar; "Israeli Educational System, 1948-1998 - Sociological Account," seminar; "Israeli Foreign Policy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict", seminar; "Israel and the Palestinians: Conflict and Negotiations," seminar; "Israeli Public Thought: Historical Roots and Current Trends," seminar.

2000-2001, 2005-2006

Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Chais Center for the Jewish Studies - Courses taught: "Israeli Society: Historical Roots and Contemporary Socio-Political Agenda," "The State of Israel: Society and Politics," "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Socio-Political Processes in Israeli Society," "Political Parties, Elections and Government Crises in Israel," "Educational System and Society in Israel" (with Dr. Semyon Goldin).

2007-2008

Tafnit School of Management, Jerusalem. Courses taught: "Mass Communication, Society and Politics: Israel in Comparative Perspective"; "Media and Public Opinion Formation"; "Media and Globalization".

2000-2001

School of Communication and Journalism, Bloomfield College of Management, Tel-Aviv. Course: "Politics, Society and Press in Israel".

2001

Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Education and Politics in Multicultural Societies".

1997-2000

School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Assistant, M.A. courses and seminars: "Sociological Theories and Educational Research," "Research Methods in Sociology of Education," "Controversial Issues in Israeli Education System," "Higher Education as an Agent of Socialization of Israeli Youth," "Assessment in Education," "Social Psychology in Educational Organizations," and B.A. course, "Education and Social Differentiation".

1997-1999

Department of Communication and Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lecturer's assistant, Course: "Politics and Press in Israel".

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  Summer Schools and Mini-Courses

Moscow, Russia, 20-23 December 2002, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel and the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "Government and Politics in Israel" (with Dr. Ilan Ben-Ami).

Kiev, Ukraine, 16-19 May 2003, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel, Yad VaShem Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "Commemoration of the Holocaust in Israel" (with Dr. Irit Abramski).

Irkutsk, Russia, 7-12 August 2003, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel and the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "Israel and Europe".

Kiev, Ukraine, 24-27 June 2004, seminar of the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "The Jewish World before and after the Holocaust" (with Minna Koifman).

Novosibirsk, Russia, 13-16 August 2004, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel and the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "The Emergence of the Israeli Statehood".

Moscow, Russia, 13-17 May 2005, Open University of Israel - mini-course, "Current Trends in Israel Studies".

Minsk, Belorussia, 27-30 May 2005, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel and the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "From the Holocaust to Statehood".

Frankfurt, Germany, 3-6 June 2005, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel and the Jewish Agency in Germany - mini-course, "Israel and Germany: A Road to Reconciliation".

Moscow, Russia, 13-19 July 2005, "Sefer" Summer School in Jewish Studies - mini-course, "Israel and the Palestinian Arabs in Context of Regional and World Politics".

Moscow, Russia, 2-6 February 2006, "Sefer" Winter School in Jewish Studies - mini-course, "The Mosaics of Contemporary Israel: National, Ethnic and Confessional Groups".

Kiev, Ukraine, 28 June - 2 July 2006, seminar of the Jewish Agency - mini-course, "Teaching Zionism and Israeli Statehood: Sources, Focal Points and Methods".

Moscow, Russia, 13-19 July 2006, "Sefer" Summer School in Jewish Studies - mini-course, "Between Zionism and Post-Zionism: Israeli Intellectuals in Search of a National Idea".

Tomsk, Russia, 1-4 December 2006, Department of International Relations, University of Tomsk - mini-course, "The Main Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict".

Moscow, Russia, 1-4 February 2007, "Sefer" Winter School in Jewish Studies - mini-course taught "Higher Education and Science in Israel: Sociological Perspective".

Tomsk, Russia, 26-28 March 2007, Department of International Relations, University of Tomsk - mini-course taught "Israel among the Nations: Selected Topics in Foreign Policy".

Wurzburg, Germany, 25-28 May 2007, joint seminar of the Open University of Israel and the Jewish Agency in Germany - mini-course taught "Israel in the Middle East".

Moscow, Russia, 11-17 July 2007, "Sefer" Summer School in Jewish Studies - mini-course taught "Democracy and National Security in Israel: State, Society and Law".

Ekaterinburg, Russia, 13-16 April and 19-21 May 2008, Department of International Relations, Ural State University - mini-course taught "Israel: Government, Politics and International Relations".

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  Sponsored Research

2008

Principal investigator, the study "One Year of Studies in Israel: To Whom and What Does It Contribute? Sociological Examination" // Funding: MASA - The Project for Long Term Programs in Israel.

2008

Associate researcher, the study "Commemorating the Holocaust: Evaluation of the Activities and Educational Impact of the Shorashim ("The Roots") Program" (Principal investigator - Dr. Zeev Khanin) // Funding: The Jewish Agency for Israel - Claims Conference.

2002-2006

Principal investigator, the study on the development of sociology of the Israeli society as a research field in various countries // Funding: Research Department, Shalem Center, Jerusalem (first stage); Authority for Research and Development, Open University of Israel (second stage).

1999-2003

Principal investigator, the study of inter-cultural dialogue between scientists and teachers from the former USSR and their Israeli colleagues // Funding: Authority for Research and Development, Open University of Israel - Center for Academic and Educational Relations with the CIS and the Baltic States, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Planning and Research Division, Ministry of Immigrants' Absorption.

1998-2000

Research associate in the study of Russian-speaking immigrant intellectual elite in construction of collective identities and subcultures in Israel Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Principal investigator - Baruch Kimmerling).

1996-1999

Research assistant, NCJW Research Institute for the Innovation in Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research projects:
(1) Higher education in the changing Israeli society - students' perspective (Principal investigator - Yechezkel Dar)
(2) An evaluation of the implementation of the Shenhar Committee report: Jewish education in the state sector Junior-High Schools (Principal investigators: Aharon Ben-Avot and Nura Resh)
(3) Multicultural perspectives on pedagogical reforms - an evaluation of the impact of intercultural bridge-making in educational systems
(4) New immigrants' from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia and Israeli-born students' expectations from their teachers & friends (Principal investigator - Rita Sever)

1997-1999

Research assistant in the study of mass-media representation of negotiations between Israel and Jordan before and after the peace agreement, Department of Communication and Journalism and Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Principal investigators: Gadi Wolfsfeld and Yoram Peri)

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  Grants and Awards

1996

Research fellowship from the Center for Human Rights, the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem to study the history of pacifist movement and the impact of the "constitutional revolution" on the legal status of conscientious objectors in Israel.

1998-2000

Scholarship from the Governmental Center for Immigrant Scientists' Absorption.

1998

Research grant from the Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the History of Israel (Institute of the Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for the study of Israeli intellectuals' influence on the emergence of civil society in MAPAI era.

1999

Theodor Herzl research scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1999

Research fellowship from Minerva Center for Human Rights, the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the study of the influence of Israeli scholars' on the elaboration of public consensus on human rights and civil liberties (1948-1977).

2000

Research fellowship from the Lavon Institute for the History of the Israeli Labor Movement for the study of relations between the academic and the political elites from the formation of "Min Ha'Yesod" group till the fading of the Movement for Peace and Security.

2000

Research fellowship from the Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences.

2001

Research fellowship from the David Asseo Foundation and the Open University of Israel Authority for Research and Development for the study of immigrant scientists' professional integration in Israel and the cultural issues related to the dialogue between Israeli-born and immigrant scientists.

2003

Research fellowship from The Leslie and Vera Keller Foundation for the Enhancement of the Jewish Heritage for the study of international community's policy regarding the problems of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab refugees after the first Arab-Israeli War (1948) and the emergence of the State of Israel.

2004

Research fellowship from the Open University of Israel Research Authority for "Israel Studies in Russia(n) - Teaching, Research and Publications".

2004-2006

Research fellowship from the International Association of Jewish Educators and the Oranim Academic College for "Development of the Jewish Education Programs in Russia and the Future of the Russian-Jewish Intellectual Frontiers".

2008

Member of the International Biographical Centre (Cambridge, England) list of Leading Educators of the World.

Biography included in the following directories: 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, 5th edition (Cambridge: Melrose Press, 2008) and Who's Who in the World, 26th edition (New Jersey: Marquis, 2009).

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  Participation in International Scientific Cooperation

Organizer and co-chairperson (together with Professor Andrey Fedorchenko), International conference "Contemporary Israel: Politics, Culture and Society", Moscow, Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies and Moscow State University, September 8-11, 2000. The first scientific conference in Russia completely dedicated to the study of the Israeli society. The papers were presented by more than 30 leading scholars from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, Columbia University, Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences).

Organizer and co-chairperson (together with Dr. Savely Volfson), 3 sessions on contemporary Israel and Israel-Diaspora relations within the framework of the 13th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (Moscow, January 31 - February 2, 2006).

Organizer and co-chairperson (together with Dr. Alexander Lokshin and Dr. Savely Volfson), 5 sessions on Zionism, the Jewish community in the Mandatory Palestine and contemporary Israel within the framework of the 14th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (Moscow, January 30 - February 1, 2007).

Organizer and co-chairperson (together with Dr. Alexander Lokshin), double session "Jewish community of Palestine/Eretz Israel and the State of Israel on the International Arena: a Historical Perspective" and co-chairperson (together with Dr. Savely Volfson), double session "Social and Demographic Profile of the Israeli Society", the 15th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (Moscow, January 29-31, 2008).

Organizer and chairperson, session "Jewish community of Palestine/Eretz Israel during the Mandate days" and session "Contemporary Israel: Politics and Society", the 16th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (Moscow, February 3-5, 2009).

As a coordinator for academic cooperation with the Russian universities at the Chais program in Jewish and Israel studies in Russian at the Open University of Israel, Alek D. Epstein pushed forward contacts with various top-ranked Russian universities. Since 2006, the agreements were signed with the Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO); Lobachevsky State University of Nizhniy Novgorod; Ural State University (Ekaterinburg); State University of Tomsk; Center of International Studies of Kazan State University, etc. Alek D. Epstein lectured in all of these universities; his articles were published in various journals and collections issued by each of the five abovementioned institutes of higher education.

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  Scientific Editorship

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Scientific editor of the Russian edition of the Open University of Israel course "Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Part I. The Founding of Israeli Democracy" (4 vols., 732 pp., published in 2001) and "Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Part II. Society, Economics and Culture" (4 vols., 870 pp., published in 2002-2003).

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Scientific editor of the Russian edition of "Electing Dictatorship: Why Palestinian Democratization Failed" by Daniel Polisar (83 pp., published in 2003 by the Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies) and other texts, authored by the Shalem Center's scholars Dan Schueftan, Michael Oren and Yagil Henkin (published in Russian in Contemporary Middle East and New Century. International Russian-Jewish Journal).

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Scientific editor of the Russian edition of "Theodor Herzl - Up Close and Personal. In Pursuit of the Zionist Vision" (a set of 28 interlocking panels and brochures, including an exhibition handbook [32 pp.], an educator's handbook for teachers [73 pp.] and a visitor's guide [24 pp.], published in 2004 by the World Zionist Organization).

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Author and scientific editor, "State of Israel", 20 encyclopedic entries (575 pp.) + 203 photos, The Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian on the Web (Jerusalem: The Society for Research on Jewish Communities, 2004-2005; together with Nina Kheimets).

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Scientific editor, "Zionism and the Jewish community in Eretz-Israel/Palestine", 227 encyclopedic entries, The Jewish Lexicon in Russian (Jerusalem: The Society for Research on Jewish Communities, 2007).

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Scientific editor of the Russian edition of the Open University of Israel course "From National Home to a State in the Making: The Jewish Community in Palestine between the World Wars" (2 vols., 316 pp. and 448 pp., published in 2006; 2 vols., in preparation).

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Scientific editor of the Russian edition of "Search for Identity Between Assimilation and Immigration: Russian Jewry in the Twentieth Century" by Baruch Gur-Gurevitz (vol. 1, 384 pp., published in 2007, vol. 2, 416 pp., published in 2008 by the Open University of Israel).

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Scientific editor of the Russian edition of the Open University of Israel course "Democracy and National Security in Israel" ((vol. 1, 368 pp., published in 2007; vol. 2, 376 pp., published in 2008; vol. 3, in preparation).

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  Membership on Editorial Boards

1999-

Bibliotheca Judaica, Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2000-2004

Jewish Education, in Russian, published by St. Petersburg Jewish University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2003-2004

New Century, International Jewish Journal in Russian

2007 -

Editorial council, Nizhniy Novgorod Journal of Research in International Relations, in Russian

2008 -

Editorial council, Euro-Asian Studies (Kazan State University), in Russian

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  Membership in Professional Societies

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International Institute of Sociology

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International Society for Political Psychology

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International Society for Intellectual History

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European Sociological Association

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Israeli Sociological Society

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Israeli Political Science Association

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  Mass-Media Projects

Lecturer, "Open Radio University" - The Open University Project for REKA Radio Broadcasts ("Voice of Israel" in Russian), supported by the AVI CHAI Foundation. Various mini-courses in Israel studies (a total of 72 programs, all mediated by Elana Raveh), each approximately 24 minutes long, were recorded and broadcast between March 2004 and December 2005 and from January to June 2007 (44 programs were issued later on the Audio CDs), as follows:

"Studies in the History of Zionism and the State of Israel" (Introductory course, 13 programs, broadcast, March - May 2004)

"Trends in Zionism: Studies in the History of Modern Jewish Nationalism" (9 programs, broadcast, October - November 2004 and July 2005); issued on audio CDs

"From a National Home to the State-in-the-Making: Palestine/Eretz-Israel During the British Mandate" (6 programs, broadcast November - December 2004)

"The First Decade of the Israeli Statehood" (8 programs, January - February 2005)

"Wars and Diplomacy: Israel in the Middle East" (6 programs, February - April 2005)

"Israeli society - A Multi-Cultural Mosaic" (6 programs, April - May 2005)

"Education and Society in Israel" (7 programs, May - July 2005)

"Urbanization and Agricultural Development in Israel" (5 programs, November 2005)

"Zionist Ideology or Zionist Ideologies?" (9 programs, January - March 2007).

Course "The Mosaics of Contemporary Israel: National, Ethnic and Confessional Groups" (5 video lectures, each approximately 20 minutes long + an electronic reader) - "e-Academy" - the joint project of the Jewish Agency, the Open University and the Chais Center (2006).

Analyst and commentator, Vesty and Novosty, the leading Israeli newspapers in Russian (more than 70 essays published from 2001 to 2008).

Analyst, commentator and columnist, The Jewish News, The Russian Jewish Congress weekly (24 essays were published in 2002-2007, 22 columns were published in 2006).

Analyst and commentator, International Jewish Gazette, Moscow (18 essays published from 2006 to 2008).

Dozens of additional essays and interviews were published in various newspapers and journals in Russian.

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  Invited Reviews

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Various international scientific journals: Language in Society (Cambridge University Press); Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development ("Multilingual matters", Britain); New Global Development (Louisiana State University, USA); Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (University of Sussex, Britain)

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Various Israeli journals: Theory and Critics (The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem), Journal of the Jewish University, Moscow-Jerusalem and publishing houses ("Ramot" publishing house, Tel-Aviv University)

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Universities (graduate theses, Moscow State Lomonosov University; The Jewish University of Moscow)

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Public organizations (Avi-Chai Foundation, Jerusalem; Authority for Small Businesses in Israel)

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Member (since 2007), Ministry of Education Committee for Nostrification of academic degrees obtained abroad. Fields of expertise: Sociology, Educational research, Migration studies

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Member (since 2007), Baruch Kimmerling Prize Committee for the best graduate student paper, International Association of Israel Studies

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  List of Publications

  Books

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Alek D. Epstein, An Everlasting Confrontation. Israel and the Arab World: Wars and Diplomacy (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies, 2003 [in Russian]), 216 pp., including 4 maps, paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-081-4.
2nd edition: Alek D. Epstein, Wars and Diplomacy. Arab-Israeli Conflict in the 20th Century (Kiev: "Spirit and Word" Publications - Institute of the Jewish Studies, 2003 [in Russian]), 215 pp. + 4 maps and 32 historical photos, hardback and paperback editions. ISBN 966-7888-43-6.

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Alek D. Epstein, Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem: History and Politics (Moscow: Institute of the Middle Eastern Studies, 2005 [in Russian]), 193 pp., including 3 tables, paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-147-0.

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Alek D. Epstein, Israel in the Era of "Post-Zionism": Academy, Ideology and Politics (Moscow: Institute of the Middle Eastern Studies, 2006 [in Russian]), 126 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-155-1.

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Alek D. Epstein, After the Collapse of the "Road Map": The Attempts to Mitigate the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Moscow: Institute of the Middle Eastern Studies, 2006 [in Russian]), 108 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-166-7.

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Alek D. Epstein, Israel's War Against Hezbollah and Its Impact on the Middle Eastern Politics (Moscow: Institute of the Middle Eastern Studies, 2006 [in Russian]), 181 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-169-1.

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Alek D. Epstein (2006). Politicide and Ethnic Cleansings in the USSR, 1918-1953 (Raanana: The Open University of Israel), 231 pp., including an introduction by Professor Yair Auron and attachments [in Hebrew]. ISBN 978-965-06-0911-5.

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Alek D. Epstein, Confronting HAMAS: Israel, Jordan and PNA face to face with Islamic fundamentalism (Moscow: Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2007 [in Russian]), 164 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-5-89394-186-9.

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Gregory Melamedov and Alek D. Epstein, Diplomatic Struggle over Jerusalem. An Offstage History (Moscow - Jerusalem: Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies - Institute of the Middle Eastern Studies - Gesharim Publishing House, 2008 [in Russian]), 416 pp., hardback edition. ISBN 978-5-93273-277-6.

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Alek D. Epstein, Israel and (Non) Administered Territories: Between Annexation and Withdrawal (Moscow - Jerusalem: Institute of the Middle Eastern Studies - Gesharim Publishing House, 2008 [in Russian]), 288 pp., hardback edition. ISBN 978-5-93273-283-0.

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  Edited Volumes

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Alek D. Epstein and Andrey V. Fedorchenko (eds.), Mass Migration and Its Impact on the Israeli Society. Collection of seventeen original essays authored by Israeli and Russian scholars (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Open University of Israel, 2000 [in Russian]), 393 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-052-2.

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Alek D. Epstein (ed.), Foreign Policy and Judicial System in the Ben-Gurion Era. Collection of four essays + historical photos and editor's introduction; published as a part of the series "Israel: The First Decade of Independence" (Tel-Aviv: Open University of Israel, 2001 [in Russian]), 164 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 965-06-0597-5.

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Alek D. Epstein and Andrey V. Fedorchenko (eds.), Contemporary Israel: Politics and Society. Collection of eighteen original essays authored by Israeli and Russian scholars + 16 historical photos (Moscow/Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Gesharim Publishing House - Open University of Israel, 2002 [in Russian]), 448 pp., hardback edition. ISBN 5-93273-095-1.

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Ilan Ben-Ami and Alek D. Epstein (eds.), Israeli Society in the Light of Arts and Culture. Collection of eleven essays authored by Israeli sociologists, anthropologists and historians + 39 historical photos; published as a part of the series "Israel: The First Decade of Independence" (Tel-Aviv: Open University of Israel, 2003 [in Russian]), 288 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 965-06-0700-5.

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David Breakstone, Alek D. Epstein and Ludmila Dymerskaya-Tsigelman (eds.), The Zionist Imperative: An Anthology of Contemporary Thinking. Collection of seventeen essays authored by Israeli and American intellectuals and public figures + 16 historical photos (Moscow - Jerusalem: Gesharim Publishing House, 2003 [in Russian]), 168 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-93273-141-9.

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Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Palestine-Israeli Conflict in the Mirror of Public Opinion and International Diplomacy (after the Camp David Summit and the Beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada). Collection of six essays and various documents (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies, 2004, in Russian), 278 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-134-9.

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Alek D. Epstein (ed.), In Search of Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict: Three Years after Camp David and Taba Talks. Collection of three essays and twenty-one UN and Israeli documents and peace proposals (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies, 2004 [in Russian]), 181 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 5-89394-109-8.

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Alek D. Epstein and Vladimir (Zeev) Khanin (eds.), Every Seventh Israeli: The Jews of the Former Soviet Union - Patterns of Social and Cultural Integration. Collection of eight essays authored by sociologists, political scientists and linguists (Jerusalem - Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2007), 256 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-7382-12-7.

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Sonya Michaeli, Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (eds.), National Priorities: Immigration and Integration in Israel in the Beginning of the 21st Century. Collection of thirteen essays authored by sociologists, political scientists, philosophers and linguists + 9 attachments (Jerusalem: Ministry of Immigrants Absorption - The Jewish Agency for Israel - Bar-Ilan University, 2007 [in Hebrew]), 304 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-7382-13-4.

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Benyamin Neuberger, Ilan Ben-Ami and Alek D. Epstein (eds.), Democracy and National Security in Israel. Volume 1. Military and Politics in the Jewish Democratic State. Collection of ten essays authored by political scientists and lawyers + 16 historical photos (Raanana: Open University of Israel, 2007 [in Russian]), 368 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-06-0934-4.

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Benyamin Neuberger, Ilan Ben-Ami and Alek D. Epstein (eds.), Democracy and National Security in Israel. Volume 2. Military and Society in the Shadow of Arab-Israeli Conflict. Collection of nine essays authored by political scientists and lawyers + 16 historical photos (Raanana: Open University of Israel, 2008 [in Russian]), 376 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-06-0976-4.

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Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Post-Soviet Jewry: Identity and Education. Collection of eighteen essays (Jerusalem: The Jewish Agency for Israel - Open University of Israel, 2008), 411 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-91238-1-0.

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Zeev Khanin, Alek D. Epstein and Velvl Chernin (eds.), Constructing the National Identity: Jewish Education in Russia Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War. Collection of nine essays (Jerusalem: The Jewish Agency for Israel - Bar-Ilan University: Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, 2008), 240 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-91238-0-3.

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Alek D. Epstein and Vadim A. Kuzmin (eds.), Israel, Russia and the World. Collection of eighteen essays (Ekaterinburg: Ural State University - Open University of Israel, 2008), 156 pp., paperback edition. ISBN 978-965-91238-2-7.

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Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Jewish State at the Beginning of the 21st Century. An Anthology of Contemporary Israeli Social and Political Thought. Collection of twelve essays (Moscow - Jerusalem: Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies - The Shalem Center - Gesharim Publishing House, 2008 [in Russian]), 423 pp., hardback edition. ISBN 978-5-93273-269-5.

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  Published Manuscripts in Various Fields

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Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Defending Democracy and Civil Rights: Jerusalem's Academic Community in the Era of State-Building". Jewish Political Science Review, 13 (1-2), pp. 63-103.

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Alek D. Epstein (2000). "The Creators of Hegemony or Alienated Outsiders? The Role of Israeli Intellectuals in the Society-Building". Zionism. Studies in the History of the Zionist Movement and of the Jewish Community in Palestine (Tel-Aviv University), 22, pp. 261-282 [in Hebrew].

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Alek D. Epstein (2002). "For the Sake of Freedom: The Role of the Jerusalem Academic Community in the Development of Critical Discourse in the Crucial Years of the State-Building". Kathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv, 106, pp. 139-176 [in Hebrew].

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Alek D. Epstein (1999). "March of the Lonely. Jerusalem Academic Community in Times of Triumph of Political Zionism (1948-1967)". Journal of the Jewish University. Moscow-Jerusalem. History. Culture. Civilization, 2 (20), pp. 156-180 [in Russian].

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Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Genesis of the Israeli Intelligentsia and the Development of Civil Society in Israel". Time for Search (Jerusalem: "Teena" Cultural Association), 5, pp. 68-81 [in Russian].

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Alek D. Epstein (2001). "The Role of Israeli Intellectuals in the Development of Public Discourse on Political and Judicial Issues". In Alek D. Epstein (ed.), Foreign Policy and Judicial System in the Ben-Gurion Era (Tel-Aviv: Open University of Israel), pp. 126-161 [in Russian].

7

Alek D. Epstein (2008). "From "Brit Shalom" to "Hug 77" - Political Movements Lead by the Hebrew University Professors in Comparative Perspectives", in Adi Gordon (ed.), Brith Shalom and Bi-National Zionism: The 'Arab Question' as a Jewish Question (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University - The Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History - Carmel Publishing House), pp. 195-224 [in Hebrew].

8

Alek D. Epstein (2003). "Labyrinths of Illusions. Intellectuals and their Struggle for the Israeli Future", in Ilan Ben-Ami and Alek D. Epstein (eds.), Israeli Society in the Light of Arts and Culture (Tel-Aviv: Open University of Israel), pp. 253-277 [in Russian].
Also published in Nota Bene. Journal of Literature and Public Affairs (Jerusalem), 2 (2004), pp. 128-142 [in Russian].

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  v  Military, Disobedience and Political Protest in Israel

9

Alek D. Epstein (1999). "In Search of Legitimacy: Development of Conscientious Objection in Israel from the Founding of the State to the Lebanon Campaign". Israeli Sociology (Tel-Aviv University), 1 (2), pp. 319-354 [in Hebrew].
Republished in: Benyamin Neuberger and Ilan Ben-Ami (eds.), Democracy and National Security in Israel. Reader (Open University of Israel, 2001), pp. 110-145.

10

Alek D. Epstein (1998). "For the Peoples of the Promised Land. Intellectual and Social Origins of Jewish Pacifism in Israel". Journal of Israeli History (Frank Cass, London), 19 (2), pp. 5-20.

11

Alek D. Epstein (2003). "On the Collapse of the Normative Framework of Citizens' Commitment to the Army in the 1990s". In Majid Al-Haj and Uri Ben-Eliezer (eds.), In the Name of Security. The Sociology of Peace and War in Israel in Changing Times (Haifa University Press / Pardes Publishers), pp. 215-239 [in Hebrew].

12

Alek D. Epstein (2002). "The Freedom of Conscience and Sociological Perspectives on Dilemmas of Collective Secular Disobedience - The Case of Israel". Journal of Human Rights, 1 (3), pp. 305-320.

13

Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Mutiny in the 6th Military Jail and the Patterns of Public Protest in the Changing Israeli Society: Causes and Implications of the Greatest Mutiny of Prisoners in the IDF". Democratic Culture (Bar-Ilan University - Israel Democracy Institute), 4-5, pp. 13-54 [in Hebrew].

14

Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Violating the Mores, Seizing the Guards: The Riot of the 'Youth of Perestroika' in an Israeli Military Jail". Terrorism and Political Violence, 14 (2), pp. 123-138.

15

Yechezkel Dar, Shaul Kimhi, Nurit Stadler, Alek D. Epstein (2000). "The Imprint of the Intifada. Response of Kibbutz Born Soldiers to Military Service in the West Bank and Gaza". Armed Forces and Society (USA), 26 (2), pp. 285-311; original Hebrew version: Megamot: Behavioral Sciences Quarterly, 39 (4), pp. 420-444 [published in 1999].

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  v  Issues in Israeli History

16

Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Political Zionism, Ideology of "Spiritual Center" and the Foundation of the State of Israel", in: Oleg Budnitsky et al. (eds.), Russian Zionism: History and Culture (Moscow: "The House of the Jewish Book" - "Sefer" Academic Association), pp. 52-69 [in Russian].

17

Alek D. Epstein (2008). "National Movement without Common Language and Territory: on the Uniqueness of the Social-Reform Ideology of the Jewish Statehood Rebirth", in Victoria Mochalova (ed.), Questions of Jewish History. Proceedings of Sefer Center 2007 Scholarly Conferences in Jewish Studies. In Memoriam of Professor Rashid Kaplanov (Moscow: 'Sefer' Center), pp. 234-254 [in Russian].

18

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "People's Diplomacy and Its Consequences: Israeli Envoy Golda Meir's Visits to the Moscow Choral Synagogue in September-October 1948", in Alexander Lokshin (ed.), The Moscow Choral Synagogue. 100 Years (Moscow: "The House of the Jewish Book" - "Sefer" Academic Association), pp. 177-203 [in Russian].

19

Alek D. Epstein, Mikhail Mikhalev and Dmitry Maryasis (2001). "The Paradoxes of Israeli Democracy. Ben-Gurion's Epoch and Its Political Heritage". Sources (Ukraine), 9, pp. 8-35 [in Russian].

20

Alek D. Epstein and Stanislav Kozheurov (2008). "The Crucial June of 1967: the Unification of Jerusalem as the Israeli Capital". In Alek D. Epstein and Vadim A. Kuzmin (eds.), Israel, Russia and the World. Collection of eighteen essays (Ekaterinburg: Ural State University - Open University of Israel), pp. 35-41 [in Russian].

21

Moshe Kenigstein and Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Kibbutz - The Success and the End of the Collectivist Utopia", in Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Society, Economics and Culture. Unit 1, The Agricultural Settlements (Tel-Aviv: Open University of Israel), pp. 91-106 [in Russian].

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  v  Contemporary Israeli Politics

22

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "The Unique Features of the Israeli Political System and Political Culture". In Alexey D. Voskresensky (ed.), Political Systems and Politics Cultures in the East (Moscow: State University of International Relations), pp. 235-261.
Republished in Contemporary Israel: Political System. Social, Ethnic and Religious Structure (Tomsk: Tomsk University Press, 2005), pp. 5-37.

23

Vladimir Khanin and Alek D. Epstein (2005). "Contemporary Israeli Society: Ethnic, Social and Religious Structure". In Alexey D. Voskresensky (ed.), Ethnic and Confessional Groups in the East: Cleavages and Interactions (Moscow: State University of International Relations), pp. 260-293.
Republished in Contemporary Israel: Political System. Social, Ethnic and Religious Structure (Tomsk: Tomsk University Press, 2005), pp. 38-69.

24

Alek D. Epstein (1999). "The High Court of Justice as a Dominant Political Institution of Israel: Socio-Political Implications of the 'Constitutional Revolution'". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 8, pp. 223-243 [in Russian].

25

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "From Aaron Barak to Dorith Beinish: Political Echo of the Change of Supreme Court Heads". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 32, pp. 96-122 [in Russian].

26

Alek D. Epstein and Assaf Gvili (2001). "Where are they Running? The Primaries Candidates' Propaganda as an Indicator of the Changing Political Culture of Israel". Politika. The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 7, pp. 47-62 [in Hebrew].

27

Alek D. Epstein and Vladimir Marchenko (2002). "The Rise and the Decline of the Israeli Left Parties". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 13, pp. 190-208 [in Russian].

28

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2002). "Crisis of Parliamentarism in Israel". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 16, pp. 237-257 [in Russian].

29

Alek D. Epstein (2003). "The Second Triumph of Ariel Sharon. The Analysis of 16th Knesset General Elections and Perspectives of the New Government". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 18, pp. 107-134 [in Russian].

30

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "From Ariel Sharon to Ehud Olmert: New Israeli Ruling Party and Its Electorate". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 30, pp. 301-320 [in Russian].

31

Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Mass-Media and Political Changes in Israel". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 12, pp. 291-307 [in Russian].
Republished in Alek D. Epstein and Andrey Fedorchenko (eds.), Contemporary Israel: Politics and Society (Moscow - Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Gesharim Publishing House - Open University of Israel, 2002), pp. 159-180.

32

Alek D. Epstein, Alisa Vladimiro and Tatyana Solopova (2004). "Electoral Behavior of the Russian-speaking Israelis and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Psychology and Politics". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 21, pp. 150-174 [in Russian].
Republished in the Russian version of The Euro-Asian Jewish Year Book - 2003 (Kiev: Dukh i Litera, 2004), ed. by V. Likhachev et al., pp. 253-283.

33

Alek D. Epstein and Rais Suleimanov (2008). "The History and the Historiography of the Russian-Israeli Relations". In Alek D. Epstein and Vadim A. Kuzmin (eds.), Israel, Russia and the World. Collection of eighteen essays (Ekaterinburg: Ural State University - Open University of Israel), pp. 85-94 [in Russian].

34

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Russia and Israel: A Romance Aborted?" Russia in Global Affairs, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 180-190.
Also published in the Russian version of Russia in Global Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 195-205.

35

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2002). "Towards Civil Society or Theocracy: Governmental Support for the Non-Governmental Religious Organizations". Time for Search (Jerusalem: "Teena" Cultural Association), 6, pp. 112-130 [in Russian].

36

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "A Neglected Human Capital: Underemployment of the Immigrants from the CIS in the Israeli Labor Market and its Public Sector". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 27, pp. 233-250.
Also published as a position paper, in Hebrew and Russian (Jerusalem: ESOD Public Committee, 2005), 18 pp. + 16 pp., including tables and notes.

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  v  The Arab-Israeli Conflict and its Impact on Israeli Society

37

Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Arab-Israeli Conflict and Its Influence on the Israeli Society". Continent (Russian State University of Humanities), 111, pp. 260-274 [in Russian].

38

Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Search for Its Solution", in Alek D. Epstein and Andrey Fedorchenko (eds.), Contemporary Israel: Politics and Society (Moscow - Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Gesharim Publishing House - Open University of Israel), pp. 213-238 [in Russian].

39

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2003). "The Impact of the Six-Day War on the Political Dynamics of the Contemporary Middle East". Vostok / Oriens (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow), 2, pp. 72-84 [in Russian].

40

Alek D. Epstein and Ivan Filippov (2003). "Israel and the Arab World: Is There Any Chance for Peace?". Cosmopolis. Journal of International Politics, 2, pp. 96-109 [in Russian].
Also published in Asia and Africa Today, 1 (2003), pp. 31-38 [in Russian]. A brief version was published in Jews of Euro-Asia, 1(2) (2003), pp. 20-26 [in Russian]. The English version entitled "Twelve False Axioms of the Arab-Israeli Conflict" was published in Jews of Euro-Asia, 1(2) (2003), pp. 26-32.

41

Alek D. Epstein and Vladimir Marchenko (2002). "Between Neutrality and Political Involvement: Military, Government and Society in Israel". In V. Akhmedov (ed.), Military and Politics in the Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), pp. 227-247 [in Russian].

42

Alek D. Epstein and Olga Zaitceva (2002). "Dual Periphery: Dilemmas of Self-Identity of the Arab Citizens of Israel". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 14, pp. 275-298 [in Russian].

43

Alek D. Epstein and Gregory Melamedov (2003). "The Bi-National Jewish State. T. Or Committee Report and the Problems of the Arab Citizens of Israel". Contemporary Middle East (Moscow Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), 20, pp. 17-34 [in Russian].

44

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2005). "British Governance in Palestine (1917 - 1948): Between the Jews and the Arabs". Cosmopolis. Journal of International Politics, 1 (11), pp. 98-109 [in Russian].

45

Alek D. Epstein (2005). "Could the Peace Be Reached Earlier? The History of the Secret Negotiations between the Zionist Movement and the King Abdullah of Jordan" (on Yoav Gelber's "Jewish-Transjordanian Relations, 1921-1948" and "Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue, 1948-1953"). Jewish Review of Books, 8, pp. 82-94 [in Russian].

46

Alek Epstein (2005). "In Search of Nonviolent Coexistence despite the War: Jews and Arabs of Palestine/Eretz-Israel in 1948". Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"), part 2, pp. 413-427 [in Russian].

47

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2003). "The Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem: History, Politics and Historiography". Time to Search (Jerusalem), 8, pp. 55-74 [in Russian].
Also published in Cosmopolis. Journal of International Politics, 3 (5) (2003), pp. 63-77 [in Russian].

48

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2004). "The Formation of the Palestinian Diaspora: Analysis of the Unique Historical Circumstances". Diasporas. Independent Scientific Journal (Moscow), 1, pp. 214-238 [in Russian].
Republished in: Diasporas. Independent Scientific Journal (Moscow), 3 (2005), pp. 230-254 [the issue includes the best essays, published in the journal since its establishment in 1999].

49

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2004). "What Happened and What Did not Happen: The Yishuv, the End of the Mandate and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem". Gesher. Journal of Jewish Affairs (World Jewish Congress), 149, pp. 57-78 [in Hebrew].

50

Alek D. Epstein and Anastasya Listopadova (2003). "In Search of the Solution of the Palestinian Refugee Problem: Israeli and Arab States' Positions (Historical Review)". New Century. Russian-Jewish Journal, 3, pp. 44-56 [in Russian].

51

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "A Weapon to Destroy Israel: Arab States' Struggle against Solving the Palestinian Refugee Problem". "Jerusalem Summit" Papers, 27 pp.

52

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "Political Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Status Negotiations". In Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Palestine-Israeli Conflict in the Mirror of Public Opinion and International Diplomacy after the Camp David Summit and the Beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), pp. 11-67 [in Russian].

53

Alek D. Epstein and Gregory Melamedov (2004). "Israelis' and Palestinians' opinions on the Jerusalem Problem". Cosmopolis. Journal of International Politics, 3(9), pp. 142-153 [in Russian].

54

Alek D. Epstein, Gregory Melamedov, Alisa Vladimiro and Tatyana Solopova (2004). "The Israeli and Palestinian Public Opinion on the Possible Approaches to the Settlement of the Conflict". In Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Palestine-Israeli Conflict in the Mirror of Public Opinion and International Diplomacy after the Camp David Summit and the Beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), pp. 177-218 [in Russian].

55

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "Three Years after Camp David and Taba Talks: In Search of Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict". In Alek D. Epstein (ed.), In Search of Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict: Three Years after Camp David and Taba Talks. (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), pp. 20-38 [in Russian].

56

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "Ariel Sharon's Politics toward the Palestinians". In Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Palestine-Israeli Conflict in the Mirror of Public Opinion and International Diplomacy after the Camp David Summit and the Beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada (Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies), pp. 219-240 [in Russian].

57

Alek D. Epstein (2008). "The Political Costs of the 'Disengagement': Critical Reassessment", in Haim Misgav and Udi Lebel (eds.), In the Shadow of the Disengagement: Strategic Dialogue in Crisis (Academic College of Netanya - Jerusalem: Carmel Press), pp. 98-120 [in Hebrew].

58

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "Controversial Tendencies of Development of the Jewish Settlements in the Administrated Territories in the Situation of Political and Juridical Uncertainty" // Analytical Records (Moscow State University for International Relations - Ministry for Foreign Affairs), 3 (8), pp. 29-52 [in Russian].

59

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "One More Islamic Revolution: Israel, the 'HAMAS State' and the Middle Eastern Policy of the US and Russia". Cosmopolis. Journal of International Politics, 1(15), pp. 11-25 [in Russian].

60

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "After the Road Map". Russia in Global Affairs, vol. 4 (3), pp. 100-111.
Also published in the Russian edition of the same journal: "After the Road Map: Is There a Chance for Peace?". Russia in Global Affairs, vol. 4 (3), pp. 181-192.

61

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "The Impact of the Arab-Israeli Conflict on the Political Behavior of the "'Russian" Israelis'". Social Issues in Israel, no. 2, pp. 94-115 [in Hebrew].

62

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Islamic Outpost in Gaza and Middle Eastern Politics". Cosmopolis. Journal of International Politics, 2 (18), pp. 104-116 [in Russian].

63

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Another Failure: Israeli Public Opinion on the Israeli-Syrian Negotiations, 2004-2006". Vestnik of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, no. 4, pp. 157-164 [in Russian].
Also published in Contemporary Middle East, no. 31 (2007), pp. 125-142 [in Russian] .

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  v  Development of Israel Studies: Ideologies and Research

64

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "The Decline of Israeli Sociology". Azure. Ideas for the Jewish Nation (Shalem Center, Jerusalem), 16, pp. 78-108.
Also published in Hebrew: Tchelet. Journal of the Israeli Thinking (Shalem Center, Jerusalem), 15 (2003), pp. 89-117.
Also published in Russian in Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Jewish State at the Beginning of the 21st Century. An Anthology of Contemporary Israeli Social and Political Thought (Moscow - Jerusalem: Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies - The Shalem Center - Gesharim Publishing House, 2008), pp. 306-348.

65

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "The Current Sociological Agenda of Israel Studies in Israel/USA and Russia: a Reexamination". Israel Studies Forum, 19 (3), pp. 83-98.

66

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2004). "Questioning the Role of Army in a Nation-Building: The Development of Critical Discourse on Civil-Military Relations in Israel", in C. Danopoulos, D. Vajpeyi and A. Bar-Or (eds.), Civil-Military Relations, Nation-Building and National Identity: Comparative Perspectives (Westport: Praeger Publishers), pp. 169-182.

67

Alek D. Epstein (2000). "Changing Attitude to the Changing Society. The Development of Israel Studies in Russian". Israeli Sociology (Tel-Aviv University), 3 (1), pp. 189-200 [in Hebrew].

68

Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Development of Israel Studies, 1980s-1990s: Major Trends and New Tendencies". Vostok / Oriens (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow), 1, pp. 172-180 [in Russian].

69

Alek D. Epstein (2008). "Baruch Kimmerling and His Intellectual Legacy", in Elena Nosenko (ed.), Israel Through "Russian" Eyes: Identities and Cultures (Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies - Natalis Press), pp. 17-32 [in Russian].

70

Alek D. Epstein (2008). "What Has Been Done and What Remains to Be Done: Reconsidering the Development of Academic Jewish and Israel Studies in Russian", in Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin, Alek D. Epstein and Velvl Chernin (eds.), Constructing the National Identity: Jewish Education in Russia Twenty Years after the End of the Cold War (Bar-Ilan University: The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education - The Jewish Agency for Israel), pp. 131-156.

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  v  Multiculturalism: Policy Issues - Israeli Case and its Theoretical Implications

71

Alek D. Epstein (1999). "State-Mediated "Hierarchy of Diversities" and the Freedom of Individual Self-Identification: Towards a Dynamic Liberal Model of Multiculturalism". New Global Development: Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare (USA), 15, pp. 36-51.

72

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2000). "Immigrant Intelligentsia and its Second Generation: Cultural Segregation as a Road to Social Integration?". Journal of International Migration and Integration (Canada), 1 (4), pp. 461-476.

73

Alek D. Epstein, Nadezhda Kazakova and Alexey Tomilin (2000). "Sociological Analysis of the Integration of Various Immigration Waves in the Israeli Society". In A. Epstein and A. Fedorchenko (eds.), Mass Migration and Its Impact on the Israeli Society, pp. 8-35. Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies [in Russian].

74

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2001). "Israel Between 'Ethnographical Multiculturalism' and Separatist Pluralism. Discussing an Integration of the Russian-Speaking Community During the Last Decade". Mifne. Forum for Social Issues (Yad Yaary and Yad Tabenkin Research Centers), 35, pp. 23-29 [in Hebrew].

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  v  Language and Collective Identities in Israel

75

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Confronting the Languages of Statehood: Theoretical and Historical Frameworks for the Analysis of the Multilingual Identity of the Russian Jewish Intelligentsia in Israel". Language Problems and Language Planning (Netherlands -USA), 25 (2), pp. 121-143.

76

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Language Education in the Trilingual Situation: The Post-Soviet Jewish Intelligentsia in Israel between State, Community and Labor Market", in Alek Epstein and Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin (eds.), Every Seventh Israeli: The Jews of the Former Soviet Union - Patterns of Social and Cultural Integration (Jerusalem - Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University), pp. 85-116.
Also published in Spanish translation in Roland Terborg and Laura García Landa (eds.), Los retos de la planificaci?n del lenguaje en el siglo XXI [The Challenges of Language Planning in the XXI Century] (Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Centro de Espenanza de Lenguas Extranjeras, 2006), pp. 443-473 .

76a

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2005). "Adult Language Education in a Multilingual Situation: The Post-Soviet Immigrants in Israel". Adult Education in Israel, 8, pp. 40-65.

77

Nina Kheimets, Shulamit Kopeliovich and Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Language Policy and the Dilemmas of Collective Identity in Israel". In Alek D. Epstein and Andrey Fedorchenko (eds.), Contemporary Israel: Politics and Society. Moscow - Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Gesharim Publishing House - Open University of Israel), pp. 48-67 [in Russian].
A brief version was republished in Jews of Euro-Asia, 3(4) (2003), pp. 24-30 [in Russian]. The English version entitled "The Language Mosaic of the Contemporary Israel" was published in Jews of Euro-Asia, 3(4) (2003), pp. 24-30.

78

Alek Epstein (2006). "A State of Jewish Diasporas: The Ethno-Linguistic Diversity of the Israeli Mass-Media". Diasporas. Independent Scientific Journal (Moscow), 3, pp. 222-260 [in Russian].

79

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2006). "The Linguistic Diversity of the Israeli Mass-Media". Hed Ha'Ulpan Ha'Hadash, 91 [in Hebrew].

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  v  Tourism and Identity: Russian Jews in Jerusalem

80

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2001). "Looking for Pontius Pilate's Footprints Near the Western Wall: Russian Jewish Tourists in Jerusalem". Tourism, Culture and Communication (USA - Australia), 3 (1), pp. 37-56.

81

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2000). "Jerusalem Celestial and Terrestrial: The Capital of Three Religions as Seen by Russian Tourists". Sources (Ukraine), 6, pp. 8-49 [in Russian].

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  v  Higher Education and Science in Israel

82

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2005). "Languages of Science in the Era of Nation-State Formation: The Israeli Universities and their (non)Participation in the Revival of Hebrew". Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 26 (1), pp. 12-36.

83

Alek D. Epstein (2000). "Higher Education in Israel in the Epoch of Social Transformations". Higher Education in Russia, 6, pp. 138-149 [in Russian].

84

Victoria Libin and Alek D. Epstein (2004). "Structural Reforms and New Priorities of the Israeli Higher Education System at the Beginning of the 21st Century". Jewish Education (St. Petersburg Jewish University - Hebrew University, Jerusalem), 1-2, pp. 171-186 [in Russian].

85

Alek D. Epstein and Victoria Libin (2003). "Psychometric Entrance Tests in the Israeli Universities: Current Dilemmas". Open Education, 5, pp. 61-71 [in Russian].

86

Alek D. Epstein, Nina Kheimets and Nathan Patlas (2000). "Immigrant Scientists from the USSR: Socio-Linguistic Self-Identification and Professional Integration in Israel". Sociology: Theory, Methods and Marketing (Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), 3, pp. 51-68 [in Russian].

87

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2001). "English as a Central Component of Success in the Professional and Social Integration of Scientists from the Former Soviet Union in Israel". Language in Society (Cambridge University Press), 30 (2), pp. 187-215.

88

Alek D. Epstein, Nina Kheimets and Nathan Patlas (2000). "Scientists, Institutes of Higher Education and the Challenge of Mass Migration in the Epoch of Socio-Political Changes: Past, Present and Future of the Israeli Higher Education System". In A. Epstein and A. Fedorchenko (eds.), Mass Migration and Its Impact on the Israeli Society, pp. 150-181. Moscow: Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies [in Russian].

89

Alek D. Epstein and Michael Uritsky (2002). "Cultural Values of Science and Cultural Values of Scientists: Immigrant Researchers from the Post-Soviet Countries in Israel". Diasporas. Independent Scientific Journal, 4, pp. 87-115 [in Russian].

90

Alek D. Epstein, Nina Kheimets and Michael Uritsky (2003). "The Impact of Intercultural Bridging on the Immigrant Scientists' Integration in Israel". Gadish. Adult Education Annual, 8, pp. 137-155 [in Hebrew].

91

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Social Scientists within the Transnational Russian-Jewish Diaspora". In M. Kenigstein (ed.), The 'Russian' Face of Israel: Social Portrait, pp. 442-465. Moscow - Jerusalem: Gesharim Publishing House [in Russian].

92

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2005). "Languages of Higher Education in Contemporary Israel". Journal of Educational Administration and History, 37 (1), pp. 55-70.

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  v  Immigrant Teenagers in the Israeli Educational System

93

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Israeli Educational System and the Proposals for Its Reform". In Tatyana Karasova (ed.), State of Israel: Politics, Economics and Society, pp. 134-158. Moscow: Institute of Middle Eastern Studies [in Russian].

94

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2000). "Cultural Clash and Educational Diversity: Immigrant Teachers' Efforts to Rescue the Education of Immigrant Children in Israel". International Studies in Sociology of Education (Britain), 10 (2), pp. 191-210.

95

Alek D. Epstein (2000). "The Challenge of Excellence as a Response to the Difficulties of Absorption: New Immigrants in the Israeli Education System". The Jews of the Soviet Union in Transition, 4 (19), pp. 181-195 [in Hebrew].

96

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2003). "The Day after Finishing the Ulpan. On the Russian-Speaking Adolescents' Need for the Educational Frameworks Founded by Immigrant Teachers". Hed Ha'Ulpan Ha'Hadash, 85, pp. 17-29 [in Hebrew].

97

Alek D. Epstein (2007). "A 'Russian' Concept of the Jewish Education: Challenges and Drawbacks of Educational Enterprises Commenced by the FSU Immigrant Teachers in Israel", in Pnina Peri (ed.), Education in a Multicultural Society: Israeli Experience (Jerusalem: Carmel Press, 2007), pp. 143-172 [in Hebrew].

98

Alek D. Epstein (2000). "Russian Teachers as the Reformers of the Israeli Education System: Ten Years of the Mofet Association". Jewish Education (St. Petersburg Jewish University - Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 1, pp. 29-54 [in Russian].

99

Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Alienation Despite Similarity. New Immigrant Teenagers' Among their Israeli-born Peers". The Jews of the Former Soviet Union in Israel and in the Diaspora, 20-21, pp. 217-238 [in Hebrew].

100

Rita Sever and Alek D. Epstein (2002). "Marginalization and Demarginalization of Immigrants: Diversity Management Strategies in Education", in Joshua D. Freilich, Graeme Newman, S. Giora Shoham and Moshe Addad (eds.), Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime, pp. 271-288 (Dartmouth, Britain: Ashgate).

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  v  Jewish Identity and Education in Israel and the Diaspora

101

Alek D. Epstein (2003). "State of Israel, Jewish Education and National Identity of the Post-Soviet Jewry", in David Breakstone, Alek D. Epstein and Ludmila Dymerskaya-Tsigelman (eds.), The Zionist Imperative: An Anthology of Contemporary Thinking (Moscow - Jerusalem: Gesharim Publishing House), pp. 134-144 [in Russian].

102

Alek D. Epstein, Nina Kheimets and Moshe Kenigstein (2005). "Educational Programs and National Identity of the Russian-Speaking Jewry", in Konstantin Burmistrov and Alexander Militarev (eds.), Between Myth and Reality. Problems of Jewish Identity and Civilization in History and Today (Moscow: The Jewish University in Moscow), pp. 272-298.

103

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (2006). "Between Ethnocentrism, Israeli-Centrism, and Cosmopolitism: Analyzing the National Identity of the Russian-Speaking Jewry". In Russian Jewish Emigrants after the Cold War, ed. by Olaf Gloeckner, Evgenija Garbolevsky, and Sabine von Mering (Brandeis University: The Center for German and European Studies), pp. 120-134.

104

Alek D. Epstein (2006). "Who is a Jew: Two Remarks". In Who is a Jew in Our Day? Discussion on the Question of Jewish Identity, ed. by Maya Leibovitch, David Ariel-Joel and Motti Inbari (Tel-Aviv: Yedioth Ahronoth Books - Contemporary Judaism Series), pp. 77-86 [in Hebrew].

105

Alek D. Epstein (2003). "Continuity and Change in the Characteristics of the Identity of the Russian-Speaking Jews in Israel and in Diaspora". Gesher. Journal of Jewish Affairs (World Jewish Congress), 147, pp. 19-33 [in Hebrew].

106

Alek D. Epstein (2001). "Problems of Jewish Education Development in Plural Societies: Israeli and Russian Experience". Roots (Magazine of Public University for Jewish Culture in Central Russia and Volga Region), 16, pp. 56-72 [in Russian].

107

Alek D. Epstein and Kirill Demidov (2001). "The Formation of Jewish Identity in Secular Schools of Israel and the Diaspora". Jewish Education (Petersburg Institute for Jewish Studies - Hebrew University of Jerusalem), 2, pp. 19-36 [in Russian].

108

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "The Past, Present and Future of the Russian Jewry as a Research Problem". Roots (Magazine of Public University for Jewish Culture in Central Russia and Volga Region), 21, pp. 42-54 [in Russian].
Enlarged version entitled "Revisiting Our Knowledge on the Russian Jewry". New Century. Russian-Jewish Journal, 2 (8), pp. 68-79 [in Russian].

109

Alek D. Epstein (2004). "In the Mirror of Mutual Expectations: Russian-Speaking Immigrants and the Israeli Society". New Century. Russian-Jewish Journal, 3 (9), pp. 150-158 [in Russian].

110

Alek D. Epstein (2005). "'New Ashkenaz' and the Multi-Cleavage Israeli Society: Unrealized Dialogue between the Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and the Israeli Society", in Rubik Rozental (ed.), The Heart of the Matter. Redefining Social and National Issues. In Honor of Yair Zaban (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House), pp. 128-139 [in Hebrew].

111

Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin and Alek D. Epstein (2006). "Cultural Continuity, Renewal and Immigration: Consciousness and Identity Conformations of Russian Speaking Jews", in Uri Cohen, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Avi Bareli and Ephraim Ya'ar (eds.), Israel and Modernity. In Honor of Moshe Lissak (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi - Tel-Aviv University - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), pp. 505-520 [in Hebrew].
* Also published in Spanish translation in Paul Mendes-Flohr, Yom Tov Assis y Leonardo Senkman (eds.), Identidades judias, modernidad y globalizacion (Jerusalem: Centro Internacional Para la Ensenanza Universitaria de la Cultura Judia, 2007), pp. 493-511.

112

Dmitry Sanoyan and Alek Epstein (2006). "New Post-Zionist Diasporas: Israelis Abroad". Diasporas (Moscow), 1, pp. 200-223.

113

Sonya Mikhaeli, Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein (2007). "Looking for a New Approach: Reducing Emigration and Strengthening the Ties with the Israelis Abroad", in Sonya Michaeli, Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets (eds.), National Priorities: Immigration and Integration in Israel in the Beginning of the 21st Century (Jerusalem: Ministry of Immigrants Absorption - The Jewish Agency for Israel - Bar-Ilan University), pp. 201-209 [in Hebrew].
A revised version was also published in Russian: Alek D. Epstein, Sonia Mikhaeli and Nina Kheimets (2008). "Preserving the Jewish Majority: Towards Israeli National Doctrine of Preventing Emigration and Strengthening the Ties with the Citizens Abroad", in Elena Nosenko (ed.), Israel Through "Russian" Eyes: Identities and Cultures (Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies - Natalis Press), pp. 84-101.

114

Alek D. Epstein (2008). "Russian Jews and the State of Israel: Past, Present and Future", in Alek D. Epstein (ed.), The Post-Soviet Jewry: Identity and Education (Jerusalem: The Jewish Agency for Israel - Open University of Israel, 2008), pp. 382-411.

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115

Alek D. Epstein (2000). "Intellectual Origins of Erich Fromm's Social Thought". The Time to Search (Jerusalem: "Teena" Cultural Association), 3, pp. 44-55 [in Russian].

116

Alek D. Epstein (1998). "The Mutual Agreement on Future War. Russian Historians' Discussion on Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Beginning of the Second World War in the Light of Victor Suvorov's 'Ice-Breaker'". Twenty Two: Moscow-Jerusalem, 109, pp. 159-188 [in Russian].

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  Papers Presented at Scientific Conferences and Research Seminars

1

Alek D. Epstein, "In Search for Legitimacy: Development of Conscientious Objection in Israel from the Founding of the State to the Lebanon Campaign". Paper presented at the History Department Research Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 26, 1997 [in Hebrew].

2

Alek D. Epstein, "Legitimacy of Disobedience: Conscientious Objection and Civil Protest as a Reflection of State - Society Interrelations". Paper presented at the Historical Society of Israel workshop, Maale-Ha'hamisha, December 28-30, 1997 [in Hebrew].

3

Alek D. Epstein, "From Giorah Neuman to Gadi Elgazi: The Appearance of Selective Conscientious Objection in Israel in the 1970s". Paper presented at the 29th Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Haifa, University of Haifa, February 24-25, 1998 [in Hebrew].

4

Alek D. Epstein, "The Israeli Association of Conscientious Objectors: Ideology of Pacifism in a Society under Siege". Paper presented at the First International Conference on "Third Sector Research in Israel", Beer-Sheva, Ben-Gurion University, March 15-16, 1998 (published in the conference proceedings, pp. 9-18) [in Hebrew].

5

Alek D. Epstein, "Pacifism as Seen by the Law and by Society: Is There No Recognition of Conscientious Objection in Israel?". Paper presented at Minerva Center for the Human Rights Research Seminar, Belgian House, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 26, 1998 [in Hebrew].

6

Alek D. Epstein, "The Creators of Hegemony or Alienated Outsiders? The Role of Israeli Intellectuals in the Society-Building". Paper presented at the Institute of Jewish Studies Research Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 21, 1998 [in Hebrew].

7

Alek D. Epstein, "Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Israeli Secondary Education - Theoretical Approaches and Research Findings". Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on "Education and the Challenge of Time", Haifa, International Congress Center, July 7-9, 1998 [in Hebrew].

8

Alek D. Epstein, "Shmuel Ettinger and the Mission of Historian in the Nation-building Process". Paper presented at the Historical Society of Israel symposium on "Historian and Society" dedicated to the late Prof. Shmuel Ettinger, Zalman Shazar Center - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November 5, 1998 [in Hebrew].

9

Alek D. Epstein, "Identity, Self-Identification and the Right to Culture: Pedagogical Dilemmas in Multicultural Society". Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the Janusz Korczak Association in Israel, December 15-17, 1998 (published in the conference proceedings, pp. 131-134) [in Hebrew].

10

Alek D. Epstein, "Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity, Transcdisciplinarity: Models of Curriculum Integration in Israeli Junior-High Schools". Paper presented at the Conference on "Education in Israel - Between Everyday Difficulties and the Challenge of 21st Century", organized by the Ministry of Education, Tel-Aviv, Ramada Renaissance Hotel, December 20-21, 1998 [in Hebrew].

11

Alek D. Epstein, "The Emergence of Civil Society in Israel - The Role of Scholars". Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on "Third Sector Research in Israel", Beer-Sheva, Ben-Gurion University - Dead Sea, Hayatt Regency Hotel, March 10-11, 1999 [in Hebrew].

12

Alek D. Epstein and Rita Sever, "The Unique Potential of the Academic Third Sector Organizations in the Development and Implementation of the Models of Immigrants Absorption: The Case Study of YES Project at the NCJW Research Institute for the Innovation in Education". Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on "Third Sector Research in Israel", Beer-Sheva, Ben-Gurion University - Dead Sea, Hayatt Regency Hotel, March 10-11, 1999 [in Hebrew].

13

Alek D. Epstein, "The First Multicultural Mutiny in the IDF and the Patterns of Public Protest in the Changing Israeli Society". Paper presented at the 30th Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Rishon LeZion, College of Management, March 15-16, 1999 [in Hebrew].

14

Alek D. Epstein, "An Abolished Agreement: Public and Legal Debate on the Mutiny of Prisoners in the 6th Military Jail in August 1997". Paper presented at the Institute of Criminology Research Seminar, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 12, 1999 [in Hebrew].

15

Alek D. Epstein, "On the Collapse of the Normative Framework of Citizens' Commitment to the Army in the 1990s". Paper presented at the Conference on Military and Civil Society in Israel, University of Haifa, May 5-6, 1999 [in Hebrew].

16

Alek D. Epstein, "6th Military Jail, August 1997 - the Most Distinguished Mutiny of Prisoners in the IDF and its Implications on the Further Development of the Critical Paradigm of Ethnicity and Military in Israel". Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University, June 17, 1999 [in Hebrew].

17

Rita Sever and Alek D. Epstein, "Marginalization and Demarginalization of Immigrants - The Role of Educational Systems' Diversity-Management Strategies". Paper presented at The International Conference on Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime, Jerusalem - Maale Ha'Hamisha, July 6-8, 1999.

18

Alek D. Epstein, "Searching for Cross-Cultural Dialogue in the Era of Globalization: Towards a Dynamic Model of Liberal Multiculturalism". Paper presented at the 34th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University, July 11-15, 1999.

19

Rita Sever and Alek D. Epstein, "Personal and Contextual Marginality of Immigrant Students in Israel - Redefining the Notion of Immigrant Integration in an Era of Globalization". Paper presented at the 34th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University, July 11-15, 1999.

20

Rita Sever and Alek D. Epstein, "The Impact of CIS Immigrant School Students Length of Stay in Israel on their Expectations from Teacher and Personal Marginality". Keynote paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Integration of Immigrant and Minority Children. Jerusalem, July 18-20, 1999.

21

Alek D. Epstein, "Questioning the Central Role of the Military in Society-Building: The Role of Israeli Intellectuals in the Development of Critical Discourse on Civil-Military Relations in a Democracy Under Siege". Paper presented at the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society Triennial Conference "Nationalism and National Security", Beer-Sheva, Ben-Gurion University - Sde Boker Campus, July 13-16, 1999.

22

Alek D. Epstein, "Representing the Nation's Conscience on Basic Political Questions. The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge - Insights from the Israeli Experience". Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Intellectuals, Intelligentsia and Society, Moscow State University, September 28-30, 1999.

23

Nathan Patlas, Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "Creating the Community of Scholars: Consolidation and Development of Institutionalized Networks of Scientists from the Former Soviet Union in Israel". Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Intellectuals, Intelligentsia and Society, Moscow State University, September 28-30, 1999.

24

Alek D. Epstein, "Intelligentsia and the Political Authorities in Israel: the Role of the Cultural Elite in the Society-Building". Paper presented at the Institute of Oriental Studies Research Seminar, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, October 25, 1999 [in Russian].

25

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "New Immigrant Scientists from the Former Soviet Union in Israel - Patterns of Professional Integration and Social Self-Identification. Research Findings". Paper presented at the 31st Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Tel-Aviv University, February 14-15, 2000 [in Hebrew].

26

Alek D. Epstein, "Brit Shalom, Ihud, Min Ha'Isod and The Movement for Peace and Security - Political Movements lead by the Hebrew University Professors (1925-1973)". Paper presented at the 3rd Conference on "Third Sector Research in Israel", Beer-Sheva, Ben-Gurion University - Dead Sea, Hayatt Regency Hotel, March 29-30, 2000 [in Hebrew].

27

Alek D. Epstein, "Jerusalem Academic Community and the Ideology of Statism". Paper presented at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry Research Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 3, 2000 [in Hebrew].

28

Alek D. Epstein, "The First Rebellion of the "Youth of Perestroika" in Israel: Cross-Cultural Determinants of the Most Distinguished Mutiny of Prisoners in the Israeli Military Jail". Paper presented at the International Conference on Post-Soviet Youth: A Comparative Study, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 22-23, 2000 (published in the conference proceedings, pp. 23-26).

29

Alek D. Epstein and Asaph Gvili, "Between Parliamentarism and Policy-Making: Primaries Candidates Propaganda as an Indicator of the Changing Political Culture of Israel". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 25, 2000 [in Hebrew].

30

Alek D. Epstein, "An Utopian Vision of the Cultural Center in Bi-National State and the New Reality of 1948: New Challenges to the Jerusalem Academic Community after the Founding of State". Paper presented at the Conference on Utopia and Dystopia: Vision, Imagination and Politics, Tel-Aviv, Open University of Israel, May 30-31, 2000 [in Hebrew].

31

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "Immigrant Teachers' Educational Initiatives in the Society of the 'Separatist Pluralism': The Case of 'Russian' Elitist Schools in Israel". Paper presented at the session on "The Cultural Politics of Schooling in Israel: Gender, Ethnicity and Social Opportunities" at the 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Tel-Aviv University, June 25-27, 2000.

32

Alek D. Epstein, "The Role of Jerusalem Academic Community in the Advancement of Ideals of Civil Rights During the Formative Years of Israeli State-Building". Paper presented at the session on "Intellectuals in the XXth Century: From Totalitarianism to Human Rights" at the 7th conference of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), August 14-18, 2000, University of Bergen, Norway (published in the conference proceedings on CD-ROM).

33

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "In Search of Roots to Be Remembered: Constructing the Image of Multiple "Axis Mundi" - Russian Jewish Tourists in Jerusalem". Paper presented at the session on "The God Who Comes to Mind: The Persistence of God in Post-Modern Consciousness and Aesthetics" at the 7th conference of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), August 14-18, 2000, University of Bergen, Norway (published in the conference proceedings on CD-ROM).

34

Alek D. Epstein, "Governmental Institutions and Electoral Campaigns: The Stability of Instability". Paper presented at the International Conference "Contemporary Israel: Politics, Culture and Society", Institute of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies, Moscow, September 8-11, 2000 [in Russian].

35

Alek D. Epstein, Nina Kheimets and Nathan Patlas, "Scientists, Institutes of Higher Education and the Challenge of Mass Migration in the Epoch of Socio-Political Changes". Paper presented at the International Conference "Contemporary Israel: Politics, Culture and Society", Moscow, Institute for Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies, September 8-11, 2000 [in Russian].

36

Alek D. Epstein, "Re-framing the Discussion on Multiculturalism in the Israeli Educational System: Between Civil Society's Search for the Separatist Pluralism and the Authorities' Demand of Transition to Acculturation". Paper presented at the 32nd Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February 5-6, 2001 [in Hebrew].

37

Alek D. Epstein, "Israel Studies in Russia(n): Challenges and Frontiers". Paper presented at the conference on Jewish Studies in Russian: Past and Future, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, April 30, 2001 [in Hebrew].

38

Alek D. Epstein, "Zionism and the Establishment of the State of Israel". Paper presented at the International Conference "Centers of the Russian Zionism", Moscow, October 22-23, 2001 [in Russian].

39

Alek D. Epstein, "The 'Russian' Way to Be Jewish. Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union as a Part of the Collective Portrait of Israeli Jewry". Paper presented at the Conference Portrait of Israeli Jewry. Beliefs, Observances, and Values among Israeli Jews, Israeli Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, May 27, 2002 [in Hebrew].

40

Alek D. Epstein, "Towards Civil Society or Theocracy: Governmental Support of Non-Governmental Religious Organizations". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Tel-Aviv University, June 20, 2002 [in Hebrew].

41

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein, "Mass Migration as a Challenge for the Language Policy: Russian-Speaking Community in Israel". Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 16-19, 2002.

42

Alek D. Epstein, "Running to the Parliament or Marching through the Parliament: Narratives of the Primaries Candidates in Israel". Paper presented at the International Society of Political Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 16-19, 2002.

43

Alek D. Epstein, "Continuity and Change in the Patterns of Identity of the Russian-Speaking Jews in the CIS countries, in Israel and in Diaspora". Paper presented at the World Jewish Congress Research Seminar on the Patterns of the Jewish Identity in the Contemporary World, Jerusalem, Zalman Shazar Center, January 1, 2003 [in Hebrew].

44

Alek D. Epstein, "The Development of the Israeli Sociology: From a Self-Mobilized Science to a Pluralistic Discourse - and Back?". Paper presented at the 34th Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Beit-Berl College, February 3-4, 2003 [in Hebrew].

45

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "The Third Sector Organizations' Contribution to the Improvement of the Immigrant Intelligentsia's Integration in the Israeli Society", Paper presented at the 34th Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Beit-Berl College, February 3-4, 2003 [in Hebrew].

46

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein, "From the Hebrew University to HUJI.AC.IL: Higher Education and Identity in Contemporary Israel". Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 15, 2003.

47

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein, "Language of Science in the Era of Nation-State-Formation: The Israeli Academia and Its (Non)Participation in the Revival of Hebrew, 1924-1948". Paper presented at the 6th European Sociological Association Conference, Murcia, Spain, September 23-26, 2003.

48

Alek D. Epstein, "In Search of Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine-Israeli Conflict: Three Years after Camp David and Taba Talks", Paper presented at the Research Seminar Arab-Israeli Conflict: Two Years after September, 11, Moscow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, December 2, 2003 (published in the conference proceedings, pp. 3-14) [in Russian].

49

Alek D. Epstein and Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin, "The 'Russian' Community Electoral Behavior and the Arab-Israeli Conflict". Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University, March 25, 2004 [in Hebrew].

50

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein, "Between the Maintenance of Russian and the Shift to Hebrew-English Bilingualism: The Formation of 'Triglossia' among the Post-Soviet Jewish Intelligentsia in Israel". Paper presented at the International Conference The Russian Language outside Russia, University of Haifa, May 9-10, 2004.

51

Alek D. Epstein, "The Zionist Century as a Subject of Sociological Discourse in Israel, USA and Russia". Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies "Israel: The Prospects for Reinvigoration", Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 14-16, 2004.

52

Alek D. Epstein, "The Rise and the Decline of Mutual Expectations: Russian-Speaking Immigrants and the Israeli Society". Paper presented at the International Conference Russian-Speaking Jewry in Contemporary World, Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University, June 14-16, 2004.

53

Nina Kheimets and Alek D. Epstein, "Scientific Communication in the Era of Globalization: Theoretical and Comparative Framework". Paper presented at the 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology "Social Change in the Age of Globalization", Beijing, China, July 7-11, 2004.

54

Alek D. Epstein, "Analyzing the Zionist State-Building as a Unique Social Experience: Formation and Development of the Israeli Sociology". Paper presented at the 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology "Social Change in the Age of Globalization", Beijing, China, July 7-11, 2004.

55

Alek D. Epstein, "Political Dialogue between Israel and Jordan before Signing of the Peace Treaty" (1947-1994). Paper presented at the Conference 10 Years of the Signing of the Peace Treaty between Israel and Jordan: Problems and Prospects of Middle East Peace Settlement at the Present Stage, Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies, December 3, 2004 [in Russian].

56

Alek D. Epstein, "Challenges of the Jewish Education Among the Russian-Speaking Israeli Students". Paper presented at the conference "The Jewish Education in the Public Schools. Ten Years after the Shenhar Committee Report", Jerusalem: The Van Leer Institute, January 25-27, 2005 [in Hebrew].

57

Alek D. Epstein, "In Search of Peaceful Coexistence despite the War: The Jews and Arabs of Palestine/Eretz-Israel in 1948". Paper presented at the Twelfth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, February 1-3, 2005 [in Russian].

58

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "Globalization against English? The Development of Mass Communication in Foreign and Community Languages in Israel". Paper presented at the 37th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden, July 5-9, 2005.

59

Alek D. Epstein, "From "Brit Shalom" to "Hug 77" - Political Movements lead by the Hebrew University Professors Before and After the Foundation of the State of Israel". Paper presented at the symposium "Brith Shalom" and the Hebrew University" within the framework of the 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August 2, 2005 [in Hebrew].

60

Alek D. Epstein, "Full Gas in Neutral: The Role of the United Nations and Other International Mediators in the Arab-Israeli Conflict". Paper presented at the symposium "Conflict Areas and the Resources of a Dialogue in Middle East" within the framework of the 3rd Annual Conference of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations", Rhodes, Greece, October 5-9, 2005.

61

Alek D. Epstein, "Jewish Settlements in the West Bank After the Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza: Political and Judicial Dilemmas". Paper presented at the conference "The Middle East: Permanently Unstable Region", Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, December 19, 2005 [in Russian].

62

Alek D. Epstein, "In the Name of Hitler, Stalin and Sheikh Yassin: Politicized Academics and their (Ab)use of Freedom of Speech". Paper presented at the International Conference "Academic Freedom and the Politics of Boycotts" (session "Political Engagement, Academic Integrity and Freedom of Speech: Where to Draw the Line?"), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, January 25-26, 2006.

63

Alek D. Epstein, "Unofficial Diplomacy: Golda Meir's Visits to the Moscow Choral Synagogue, September-October 1948". Paper presented at the 13th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, January 31 - February 2, 2006 [in Russian].

64

Alek D. Epstein, "Ariel Sharon and his Political Legacy". Paper presented at the 13th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, January 31 - February 2, 2006 [in Russian].

65

Alek D. Epstein, "An Impact of the Arab-Israeli Conflict on the Community-Formation of the 'Russian' Israelis". Paper presented at the International Conference on "Two Waves of Mass Migration to Israel: 1950s and 1990s", Tel-Aviv University, February 14-16, 2006 [in Hebrew].

66

Alek D. Epstein, "Without Arafat and Sharon: The New Realities of the Middle Eastern Most Important Conflict after the General Elections in the PNA and Israel". Paper presented at the Conference The Contemporary Middle East: Old and New Conflicts, Moscow State University for International Relations, April 21, 2006 [in Russian].

67

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "Between Globalization and Localization: The Linguistic Diversity of the Israeli Mass-Media". Paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society, Raanana, The Open University of Israel, June 4, 2006.

68

Alek D. Epstein, "Illusion of Kadima's Triumph: Socio-Demographic Analysis of the General Elections' Results". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Raanana, The Open University of Israel, June 15, 2006 [in Hebrew].

69

Alek D. Epstein, "Another Kind of European Nationalism in the Mediterranean: Elaborating on the Unique Features of the Zionist Ideology". Paper presented at the session "Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean" at the 10th conference of The International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Malta, July 24-29, 2006.

70

Alek D. Epstein, "The Role of Superpowers in the Mediation of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: What Went Wrong and What Could Be Done?". Paper presented at the symposium "The Middle East: Imperatives of Modernization and Development" within the framework of the 4th Annual Conference of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations", Rhodes, Greece, September 27-30, 2006.

71

Alek D. Epstein, "Israel Studies in Russia and Abroad, 1991-2006: Developments, Trends and Dilemmas". Paper presented at the International conference "Russia - Israel: 15 Years of the Reestablished Diplomatic Relations". Moscow, The Diplomatic Academy, October 12-13, 2006 [in Russian].

72

Alek D. Epstein, "Is There a 'Russian' Elite in Israel?". Paper presented at the International Conference "Russian-speaking Jewry in Global Perspective: Power, Politics and Community", Ramat-Gan, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, October 17-19, 2006 [in Russian].

73

Alek D. Epstein, "Keeping Terror in Mind: The Middle Eastern Experience and Its Implications". Paper presented at the International roundtable "International Cooperation and Diplomacy Against Extremism and Terrorism". Moscow, Institute of Religion and Politics - Public Council of Russian Federation, November 14, 2006 [in Russian].

74

Alek D. Epstein, "To Prevent the War: Redefining International Mediators' Mission in the Middle East". Paper presented at the International roundtable "Is There a Chance for the Middle Eastern Peace Process?". Moscow, The Diplomatic Academy, December 11, 2006 [in Russian].

75

Alek D. Epstein, "Commemoration, Suppression or Attrition? The Days of Stalin in the Russian Collective Memory". Paper presented at the roundtable Genocide in the East, Genocide in the West. Raanana, The Open University of Israel, January 4, 2007 [in Hebrew].

76

Alek D. Epstein, "National Movement without Common Language and Territory: On the Uniqueness of the Social-Reform Ideology of the Jewish Statehood Rebirth". Paper presented at the 14th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, January 30 - February 1, 2007 [in Russian].

77

Alek D. Epstein, "Those Who Stayed: Russian Jewry after the Mass Emigration - Ethnic Identity and Community Life". Paper presented at the International conference Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants in Israel and Germany: Policies, Realities, Lessons, Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute, 21-22 March 2007 [in Hebrew].

78

Alek D. Epstein, "Russian Media in Israel: History, Current Trends and Prospects for the Future". Paper presented at Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants in Israel and Germany: Policies, Realities, Lessons, Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute, 21-22 March 2007 [in Russian].

79

Alek D. Epstein, "Intellectuals' Freedom and Intellectuals' Accountability: Israeli Scholars' (Mis)interpretations of History in Comparative Perspective". Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Intellectual History, Birkbeck College, University of London, April 17-20, 2007.

80

Alek D. Epstein, "After Sharansky: 'Russian' Political Leaders in Israel - an Elite without Successors?". Paper presented at the Association for Israel Studies 23rd Annual Conference Israel as an Immigrant Society: Between the Melting Pot and Multiculturalism, Raanana: The Open University of Israel, June 11-13, 2007.

81

Alek D. Epstein, "The Jewish Intelligentsia from the Former Soviet Union and the Israeli Culture - An Unpredicted Meeting". Paper presented at the Conference 40 Years after the Six-Day War - 40 Years after the Beginning of Emigration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel, Raanana: The Open University of Israel, June 20, 2007.

82

Alek D. Epstein, "Ethos of Return with Jerusalem/Al-Quds in its Heart. Israelis and the Palestinians: Parallels Meet?". Paper presented at the symposium "The Middle East in inter-civilization relations" within the framework of the 5th Annual Conference of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations", Rhodes, Greece, October 10-14, 2007.

83

Alek D. Epstein and Nina Kheimets, "'Our Israeli-Born Children Also Speak with a Russian Accent': Additive Biculturalism of the FSU Immigrants in Israel". Paper presented at the 39th Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Society, Tel-Aviv University, February 12-13, 2008 [in Hebrew].

84

Alek D. Epstein, "Zionism as a National Project of the Russian Jewry". Paper presented at the 15th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, January 29-31, 2008 [in Russian].

85

Alek D. Epstein, "Russian Jews' Contribution to the Formation of the Israeli Statehood". Paper presented at the International Conference Russia, Israel and the World: Past, Present and Future, Yekaterinburg State University, May 19-20, 2008 [in Russian].

86

Alek D. Epstein, "Learning from Experience? Why Did the 'Road Map To Peace in the Middle East' Fail?". Paper presented at the 31st Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Political Psychology, Paris, France, July 9-12, 2008.

87

Alek D. Epstein, "Paradigm Shift in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: From Ethnic to Religious", Paper presented at the International Conference Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Europe, Mediterranean and Post-Soviet States, Moscow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, December 11, 2008 [in Russian].

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