Gil Ribak

About Me

Hello!

I am a scholar and public educator of Modern Jewish history. Currently I serve as the Shirley D. Curson Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona.

My scholarship and expertise have been acknowledged for their contribution and innovation both nationally and internationally. In the past several years, I have won several prestigious international fellowships, which include the European Union’s Marie S. Curie Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at Freiburg, Germany; the “Social Relevance of the Humanities” fellowship, awarded to me by the Center for Advanced Study – Sofia (Bulgaria), developed with financial support by the Porticus Foundation (Netherlands); and a research fellowship by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (Germany), among others.

I am the author of two books and numerous journal articles and book chapters – please see the publication section. Throughout my scholarly work, I utilize the four languages that I read and speak fluently – English, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish. I am an immigrant, who is a first-generation college student (not to mention graduate school student), born and raised to a blue-collar family in Israel.

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