Dr. Vladimir (Ze’ev) Khanin

 

Personal

Name:

Vladimir Emmanuilovich Khanin

Born

29 September 1959, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

Family status:

Married to Isana Khanin, two sons, Igor (1988 b) and Adir (1997 b)

 

Education

1976-81

History and English Dept, Pedagogical Institute of Yaroslavl

1981

Diploma: Teacher (MA) in History, Sociology and English

1982-87

Post-Graduate course, Institute for African Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

1989

Diploma: Candidate of Sciences, Ph.D. in History (Political Science, African Politics and Contemporary History)

1991

Post-Doctorate Course, Institute for Russian and Soviet Studies (Soros Scholarship) and Senior Associate Fellow, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK

 

Teaching and Research

1992à

Lecturer, Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University

1993à

Lecturer in Jewish History, Mechina le-Olim and Academic Fellow, the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

1991-92

Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Zaporozhye Branch, St. Petersburg Institute of Political Science and Public Administration`

1987-91

Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of Social Studies, Industrial Institute of Zaporozhye

1984-89

Senior Lecturer of Modern History and Oriental & African Studies at the Department of History, State University of Zaporozhye

 

Languages

English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian

 

Visiting Lectureships

1991

Visiting lecturer in East European Politics, School of Languages and European Studies, Polytechnic of North London, UK

1995

Visiting Israeli Professor in Jewish History, Department of Jewish Studies, International Solomon University, Kiev, Ukraine

1995

Visiting Professor in Oriental Studies, Dept. of History, Zaporoshye State University, Ukraine

1996

Visiting lecturer in Zionism and Modern Israeli Society Studies, College of Oriental and African Studies, Moscow State University, Russia

 

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

1991

Post-Doctorate Soros Fellowship, St.Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK

1993,1994

Awards, Yoram-Shnitser Foundation for Research in Jewish History, Tel-Aviv

1993

Grant, Institute for Jewish Diaspora Research, Tel-Aviv University

1994-1995

Fellowship, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1994à

Grant (with Fellowship), Agmon Research Project, Tel-Aviv University

 

Fields of interest

Political science - General
Comparative and ethnic politics
Israeli Government and Politics
East European and Third World politics
Sociology, politics and history of East European Jewish communities

 

Courses taught

Political Science - General
1.An Introduction to Political Science ;
2.World Politics and the Basic Theories of International Relations;
3.The Political Economy of Corruption

Regional Politics
4. Power and Politics in the Post-Soviet States;
5.The Post-Colonial Third World Politics;
6. USSR/CIS in Transition: the Social, Economic and Political Prospects;
7. Israeli Government and Politics;
8. Military and Politics in Africa;
9. Political Parties and Political Movements in Africa in Comparative Perspective;
10. Ruling Groups, State-Society Relations and Political Regimes in Contemporary Africa

Jewish Studies
11. An Introduction to Jewish History;
12. An Introduction to Jewish Anthropology;
13. Israel and the Jewish Diaspora;
14. The History of Zionism and the Modern State of Israel;
15. An Introduction to Jewish Political Tradition

General History
15. An Introduction to East European History;
16. An Introduction to Modern History of Asia and Africa

 

Publications

Books and Monographs

  1. Intra-political Struggle in Nigeria: Genesis, Nature and Role of the Political Parties of the Second Republic (1979 - 1983). Ph.D. Thesis. Moscow, Institute for African Studies, 1989 (in Russian)
  2. Ethnic-Regional Groups and Political Struggle in Nigeria (Moscow: Inst. for African Studies Pub.) 1989 (in Russian)
  3. [Ed., et al] The Jewish History and Jewish Culture in the Ukraine, Vol. 3 (Kiev: AJOC Pub.) 1996
  4. [Ed., et al] The Jewish History and Jewish Culture in the Ukraine, Vol. 4 (Kiev: AJOC Pub.) 1997
  5. Jewish Life in the Ukraine after the Second World War: Emigration and Crises of National Identity, 1944-1987 (London: Frank Cass) 1998 (forthcoming)

    Chapters in Books

  1. ‘Technocracy and Its Role in Non-Formal Structures of Power (the Nigerian Case)’. - in: Vasilyev, A. et al (Eds.): Evolution Ways and Social Role of Modern African Intelligencia (Moscow Inst. for African Studies Pub.) 1987 (in Russian)
  2. ‘Political Parties of the Second Republic: Their Formation and Social Base’ - in: Vasilyev A (ed.) Nigeria: Power and Politics (Moscow: “Nauka” Pub.) 1988 (in Russian)
  3. ‘Non-Formal Structures of Power: Institute of Political Parties in African Conditions’. - in Vasilyev A., Sledzevsky I. (eds.) Africa Today: Records and Prospects of Development. Evolution of Political Structures (Moscow: “Nauka” Pub.) 1990
  4. ‘Adaptation of the European Model to the African Condition: Ethnic and Political Pluralism in Nigeria’ - in: Ibid.
  5. ‘Socio-Political Aspects of Jewish Repatriation from the Ukraine: the Case of Dniepr Region’. - in: The Jewish Population of the Southern Ukraine: the Past and Contemporary Times (Zaporozhye, Communar Pub.) 1991
  6. [et al] ‘East Africa’ - in: Gonen, A. et all (eds.). The Peoples of the World (New York: Henry Hold Ltd. and Co. Ltd.) 1993
  7. ‘Ukrainian Jewish Identity in the Crossroads of Cultures: Historical Factors and Contemporary Experience’. - in: Shain, M. and Gillman, S. (eds.) Jews at the Frontier (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1998) (forthcoming)

    Articles in Academic Journals

  1. ‘Civil and Military Politicians in Nigeria: Confrontation or Partnership?’ - in: Narody Azii y Afriki (Peoples of Asia and Africa) 1986, No 4 (in Russian)
  2. ‘The Ukrainian Exodus’ - in: W.R.E.: Oxford Journal Opinion and International Affairs, December, 1991
  3. ‘Why Do Jews Leave the Ukraine?’ - in: Reports of the Refugee Studies Group, (Oxford: Queen Elizabeth House) 1992
  4. ‘The Yang People of Ukraine: Social Values and Anti-Semitism’. - in: The Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 1994, No 25 (18)
  5. ‘The Jewish School Education in the Contemporary Ukraine’. - in: Yehudei Brit Ha-Moetsot Ba-Ma’avar (Soviet Jews in Transition), Jerusalem , 1995, No 3 (18) (in Hebrew)
  6. ‘The Ukrainian Jewry: Social Consciousness and the Problem of Jewish Identity’. - in: Shvut: Jounal of East European Jewish History and Culture (Tel-Aviv), 1996, No 4
  7. ‘Jewish Institutions and Jewish Politics in the Ukraine: Some Principal Trends and Aspects’. - in: Yehudei Brit Ha-Moetsot Ba-Ma’avar (Soviet Jews in Transition) Jerusalem, 1996, No 4 (19) (in Hebrew)
  8. ‘Political Structures and the Nature of Political Conflicts in the Newly Emergent States (the Case of Black Africa and the Eastern Europe)’. -in: Review of African Political Economy (London), 1997 (forthcoming)
  9. ‘The Ukrainian Communist Establishment Vs Jewish Emigration: a Newly Found Document of the Post-Detente Era’. - in: Ha-Apala (Escape), Tel-Aviv, 1997, Vol. 2 (in Hebrew) (forthcoming)
  10. ‘Ukrainian Post-Communist Establishment, Public Opinion and the Jewish Community of the Independent Ukraine’. - in: The Jews in Eastern Europe (Jerusalem), 1998 (forthcoming)
  11. ‘The “African Tradition” and the “New European Modernity”: the Structure and Conflict in Nigeria and in the Ukraine’. - in: Filosofs’ka ta Sociolohichna Dumka (Philosophical and Sociological Thought), Kiev, 1998 (in English and Ukrainian) (forthcoming)
  12. ‘Evolution of Political Institutions and the Problem of Civil Society in Africa’. - in: Skhidny Vistnyk (Oriental Herald), Kiev, 1998 (in Ukrainian) (forthcoming)
  13. ‘A Rabbinical Revolution? Religion, Power and Politics in the Contemporary Ukrainian Jewish Movement’. - in: Jewish Political Studies Review, Jerusalem (forthcoming)
  14. ‘Jewish Politics in the Post-Communist World: Personality, Ideology and Conflict in the Contemporary Ukrainian Jewish Movement’. - in: The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Washington (forthcoming)

    Papers, presented at scientific meetings

  1. ‘Western Europe and Africa: tStart of Social Synthesis (the Medieval Heritage and Modernity)’. - Paper, presented at the Seminar on International Relations in Europe in the Middle Ages, Zaporozhye, May, 1989.
  2. ‘Party Institutions and Prospects for Political Stability in Nigeria’. - Paper, presented at the International “Nigerian Readings” Conference, Moscow, October, 1990
  3. ‘Religion and Ethnicity in Nigeria: the Political Aspect’. - Paper, presented at the Conference on Islam, State and Society, Moscow, February, 1991.
  4. ‘The Political Culture of Ukraine’. - Paper, presented at the Scientific Seminar “Maxism, Culture, Society”, St.Peter’s College, University of Oxford, UK, December, 1991
  5. ‘The Political Experience of the Third World Countries and Prospects for Ethnic Politics in the Ukraine’. - Paper, presented at the Conference on The Problems and Methods of Research of the National Relations in the Ukraine, Kiev, April, 1992.
  6. ‘Sociological Methods of Research of the Jewish Repatriation from the Ukraine’. - Paper, presented at the Conference on Jewish Historiography in the Ukraine: Records and Prospects, Kiev, August, 1992.
  7. ‘Political Conflicts in the Transition Societies: the Case of Black Africa and the Post-Soviet States’. - Paper, presented at the of Scientific Seminar Africa Studies Unit, Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January, 1993
  8. ‘Jewish Emigration from the Ukraine in 1990s: the Problem of Motivations’. - Paper, presented at the International Conference “Russian Jews in Three Continents” Tel-Aviv, December, 1993
  9. ‘Ethnicity, Confessionalism and Migration in Political Conflicts: the Three Cases (Nigeria, Ukraine and Israel)’ - Paper, presented at the International Conference on Ethnicity, Religion and Migration in New States, Bishkek, September, 1994
  10. ‘The Ethnic Trap: Nigerian Fiction-Literature on Power and Corruption in Africa’. -Paper, presented at the International Conference “Breaking the Boundaries: Beyond the Land of Kush. Literature and Culture in Africa South of Sahara”, Tel-Aviv, July, 1995
  11. ‘Israel and the Problems of Identity of Ukrainian Jews (the Case of Dniepr Region)’.- Paper, presented at the International Conference on Jewish History and Jewish Culture in the Ukraine, Kiev, August, 1995
  12. ‘Popular Islam and Violence in West Africa’. - Paper, presented at the Conference on Violence and Politics in Africa, Tel-Aviv University and Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv, January, 1996
  13. ‘Contemporary Ukrainian Politics: a Way to a Liberal Democracy?’ - Paper, presented at the Conference on Problems of Democratization in the Middle East and the Eastern Europe, - Tel-Aviv University and Open University of Israel, Tel-Aviv, June, 1996
  14. ‘An Oppressed Section of the Dominant Minority: Identity, Social Consciousness and Culture Orientations of Modern Ukrainian Jewry’. - Paper, presented at the International Conference “Jews at the Frontier”, Cape Town, August 1996
  15. ‘The Land of Israel in the Consciousness of Contemporary Ukrainians’. Paper, presented at the International Scientific Conference "Jerusalem in Slavonic Culture", Jerusalem December, 1996

Other publications include:

3 book reviews, 34 encyclopedia items, 35 compilations of didactic materials for academic learning

 

Research Projects

1. The Students from the Third World Countries in the Ukrainian Universities: the Problem of Social Adaptation. - (Research Division, Industrial Institute of Zaporozhye), 1988

2. Scientific Research in Higher Educational Establishments and Market Economy; the Social and Psychological Aspects - (Research Division, Industrial Institute of Zaporozhye), 1989

3. The 1990 General Elections in the USSR: the People’s View - (Zaporozhye, Regional Center for Public Opinion Studies) 1990

4. The Social Values and Orientations of East Ukrainian Youth - (Zaporozhye Scientific Research Center for Youth Problems) 1992

5. The Youth of Dniepr Region: Attitudes Towards State and Politics - (Zaporozhye Scientific Research Center for Youth Problems) 1992

6. The Social and Historical Aspects of Development of the Jewish Communities in the Ukraine - (Tel-Aviv, Yoram-Shnitzer Foundation for Research in Jewish History and the Institute for Jewish Diaspora Research, Tel-Aviv University), 1993 - present

7. Ukraine: the Problem of Political Stability and the Prospects for Economic Cooperation (Tel-Aviv, Institute for International Trade and Investment, College of Administration) 1993

8. Patrons and Clients: Politicians and Political Struggle in Nigeria (1960s - 1990s) - (Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 1994 - 1996

9. The Jewish Emigration and Attitudes Towards Israel in the Post World War II Ukraine. - (in collaboration with Agmon Research Project, Tel-Aviv University) 1994 - now

10. Academic Evaluation of the Jewish Studies Program at the International Solomon University, Kiev, Ukraine - (the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in Diaspora, Bar-Ilan University and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) 1996

11. Academic and Political Background to the Creation of the Unified System of the Jewish Education in the Ukraine - (the Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in Diaspora, Bar-Ilan University and Joint Authority for Jewish Zionist Education, Jewish Agency for Israel), 1996

12. The Revival of Organized Jewish Life in the Contemporary Ukraine: Models, Trends and Prospects, 1987-1997 (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs), currently

 

Public Lectures

‘1991 Moscow Coup and Aftermath’ (the Social Science Faculty, University of Oxford, UK, November, 1991)

‘Israel, Jewish Diaspora and the Problem of Restoration of Jewish Life in the Ukraine’ (the Rabbi Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in Diaspora, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, July, 1994)

 

To Make Contact

Address - Office:

Dept Middle Easter and African History, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Israel

Address - Home:

Moshav Avi’ezer 112/1, DN. Ha-Ela 99860, Israel

Tel:

972-3-6409450/9990 (office) 972-2-9990782 (home)

Fax:

972-3-6409457

E-mail:

khanin@post.tau.ac.il

 

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