Uzi
Rebhun

Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellow ; Roberta and Stanley Bogen Visiting Scholar

Research Topic

American Jews and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Bio

Uzi Rebhun is the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-Diaspora Relations and head of the division of Jewish Demography & Statistics and the A. Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University. He has written extensively on international and internal migration, the Jewish family, group identity, Israel-Diaspora relations, and antisemitism. 

Rebhun completed his doctorate in 1997 at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was trained as a post-doc at the Center for the Study of World Religions of Harvard University (1997–98).

Selected publications

  • “Inter-Country Variations in Covid-19 Incidence from a Social Science Perspective,” Migration Letters 18.4 (2021): 413–23.
  • “The Golden Jubilee of the First National Jewish Population Survey: A Critical Assessment of the Demographic Study of American Jews, 1970-2020”. American Jewish Year Book 2022: 3–59.
  • Jews and the American Religious Landscape, Columbia University Press (2016).

Fellowship

2020–2021

Delving into some of the most pressing debates within US history and Jewish history, and examining vital questions shaping Jewish cultural studies, literary theory, and social scientific inquiry

2024–2025

Exploring health through the intersection between bodies and systems, language and physicality, religion and science, and beyond.