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).
