Fred Lazin

Abensohn Professor
Department of Sociology

• Additional Positions at AU

  Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor
  
• Dr. Lazin comes to AU from Ben Gurion University, where he was named Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government in 1991. He has authored over sixty scholarly articles and chapters in books. He has written and edited ten books dealing with public policy in the United States, Israel, and developing countries, Israeli politics and society and Jews in American politics. He received the Israel Political Science Association's award for the outstanding English language book on politics in 2005 for The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics; Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment. His pioneering research on the response of American Jewish organizations to German Jewish refugees in the 1930s opened a new field in Holocaust Studies. As a visiting professor he will teach Israeli Society and Israeli Politics.

• Degrees

  MA, PhD University of Chicago