פרופסור יעקב רואי

EDUCATION

1973    Ph.D. International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
              Dissertation: "Soviet-Israeli Relations, 1947-1954"
1964    M.A.  Jewish History (with distinction), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
             Thesis: "The Attitude of the Yishuv to the Arabs, 1880-1914"
1954    B.A.  History, Cambridge University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003-         Professor Emeritus
2001-02     Director, Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University
1998-2004 Zvi and Sara Berger Chair of Russian Jewish History
1995-96     Visiting fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
1990-2003 Full Professor, Russian History, Tel Aviv University
1989-90     Visiting Professor, Georgetown University
1988-2013 Member Editorial Board/Internatioanl Advisory Board, Central Asian Survey
1987-88     President, Israeli Association for Slavic and East European Studies  
1986-87     Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University
1983          Fellow, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. 
1982-90     Associate Professor, Russian History, Tel Aviv University 
1977-82     Director, Russian and East European Research Center, Tel Aviv University 
1974-82     Senior Lecturer, Russian History (tenured), Tel Aviv University 
1972-74     Lecturer, Russian History, Tel Aviv University 
1971-72     Instructor, School of History, Tel Aviv University 
1970-71     Visiting Research Associate, Shiloah Center, Tel Aviv University 
1966-70     The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University 
1960-65     Research Worker, Weizmann Archives, Rehovot 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 Professor Emeritus

2001-2002 Director, Cummings Center, Tel Aviv University

1998-2004 Zvi and Sara Berger Chair of Russian Jewish History

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2002-2004 Two-year research grant, Israel Academy of Sciences.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Islam in the Soviet Union from World War II to Gorbachev. London/New York: Christopher Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2000.

Islam in the CIS: A Threat to Stability? London/Washington, Royal Institute of International Affairs/Brookings Institution, 2001.

EDITED BOOKS

(with Yehoshua Freundlich and Dov Yaroshevski) Documents on Israel-Soviet Relations 1941-1953. London: Frank Cass, 2000.

(with Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yosef Gorny), Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and Divergence. Leiden: Brill, 2003

Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia. London: Frank Cass, 2004.

(with Zvi Gitelman) Revolution, Repression and Revival: The Soviet Jewish Experience. Seattle: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

(with Boris Morozov) The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War. Washington, D.C.,and Stanford (CA): Woodrow Wilson Center and Stanford University, 2008.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

"Islam, State and Society  in Central Asia," Helsinki Monitor (Special issue, 2003), pp. 242-53.

"Introduction," in Vladimir Babak, Demain Vaisman and Aryeh Vasserman (eds.), Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan. London: Frank Cass, 2004, pp.1-18.

"Islam in the FSU – An Inevitable Impediment to Democracy?" in Yaacov Ro'i  (ed.), Democracy and Pluralism in Muslim Eurasia, pp. 101 – 116.

(with Alon Wainer) "Muslim identity and Islamic practice in post-Soviet Central Asia," Central Asian Survey, vol. 28, no. 3, Sept. 2009, pp. 303 – 322.

 “Religion, Israel, and the Development of Soviet Jewry’s National Consciousness, 1967 – 91,” in Zvi Gitelman (ed.), Jewish Life after the USSR. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003, pp. 13-26.

“Israeli – Soviet Relations, 1941 – 1953: Introductory Note,” and “The Deterioration of Relations: From Support to Severance,” The Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 22, No.1 (2003), pp.1-3, 21-36

"The Reconstruction of Jewish Communities in the USSR, 1944 – 1947," in David Bankier (ed.), The Jews are Coming Back: The Return of the Jews to their Countries of Origin after WWII. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2005, pp. 186 – 205.

 “The Religious Life of the Bukharan Jewish Community in Soviet Central Asia after World War II,” in Ingeborg Baldauf, Moshe Gammer and Thomas Loy (eds.), Bukharan Jews in the 20^th Century: History, Experience and Narration. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2008, pp. 57 – 75.

"Soviet Jewry from Identification to Identity," in Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny and Yaacov Ro'i (eds.), Contemporary Jewries: Convergence and Divergence. pp. 183 – 193.

"Introduction," in Zvi Gitelman and Yaacov Ro'i (eds.), Revolution, Repression and Revival, pp. 1 – 12.

"Soviet Policy toward the Six Day War through the Prism of Moscow's Relations with Egypt and Syria," in Yaacov Ro'i and Boris Morozov (eds.), The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War, pp.1 – 42.

"The Soviet Jewish Reaction to the Six Day War," ibid., 251 – 267.

"The Visit to Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan of Israeli ambassador to Moscow Yosef Avidar and his Wife, Yemima Tchernovitz (1956): Excerpt from Yemima's Diary," Mizrekh, [Vol. 1], pp. 141 – 170.

"חג הפסח מול המשטר הסובייטי," בר-אילן, כ"ד-כ"ה, תשמ"ט, ע"ע 173 – 195.

"העמדה הסובייטית כלפי קיומה של ישראל," בתוך בנימין נויברגר (עורך), דיפלומאטיה בצל עימות: סוגיות נבחרות ביחסי החוץ של ישראל, 1948 – 1978. האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 1984, ע"ע 405 – 427.

"כינון יחסים בין ישראל לברית-המועצות שבהנהגת גורבצ'וב," בתוך בנימין נויברגר (עורך), מלחמות והסדרים: סוגיות נבחרות ביחסי החוץ של ישראל. האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, 1992, ע"ע 401 – 416.

"יחסי ברית-המועצות/רוסיה – ישראל, 1948 – 2005," בתוך בנימין נויברגר (עורך), מדיניות חוץ בין עימות להסדרים, 1948 – 2008. האוניברסיטה הפתוחה,2008, ע"ע 907 – 927.