Zvi Gitelman

Zvi Gitelman is a professor of political science that teaches Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.

Gitelman received a Ph.D., an M.A., and a B.A. degree from Columbia University. He has usually written about the connection of ethnicity and politics especially in former Communist countries. He has also written about Israeli politics, East European politics, as well as Jewish political attitude. Gitelman received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983.

He is married to Marlene Gitelman. He has two children, and six grandchildren.^{[citation needed]}