Gal
Levy
Gal Levy
Research Topic
Diversity, Ethnicity, and Belonging: American Jewry Transformed?
Bio
Gal Levy serves as a senior teaching faculty member and researcher at the Open University of Israel. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Kansas (2014–2015) and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Cambridge University (2017–2018). Additionally, he was a visiting associate professor at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan (2022–2023). He was the founding director of NYU Tel Aviv, serving from 2008 to 2013. His extensive publications focus on the intersection of ethnicity, education, and citizenship. His current research explores emerging identities and activism among young American Jews.
Levy received his Ph.D. from London School of Economics and Political Science.
Selected publications
- “Mizrahi Education,” in Black Brick: Mizrahim Write a New Israeli Reality, ed. H. Zubeida and R. R. Bendriham (Hebrew; Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2025), 190–96.
- With Maoz Rosenthal and Ishak Saporta, “Ethnic Demons and Class Specters: Ethnic and Class Voting in Israel Revisited” (Hebrew), in Elections in Israel, 2019–21, ed. M. Shamir and G. Rahat (Taylor and Francis, 2022), 297–331.
