Role: Researcher
Email: zeevle@tauex.tau.ac.il
Scope of Research:
Modern History of Nationalities, Minority Groups, Cultures and Religions in Central Asia and Caucasus
Academic Background:
Dr. Zeev Levin is a scholar of the history of Jewish communities in the East, Central Asia, and the Iranian sphere, with a broad academic background and many years of accumulated research experience. He completed his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. His postdoctoral training was carried out at Tel Aviv University and at the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, where he further developed an interdisciplinary research agenda combining social and cultural history, the study of identities, collective memory, and the documentation of Jewish communities that have disappeared or are in the process of disappearing.
Over the years, Dr. Levin has published scholarly articles and edited academic volumes with leading journals and presses, initiated and led international research and documentation projects, and organized conferences and research workshops in collaboration with academic institutions in Israel, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Europe.
Alongside his scholarly work, he is actively engaged in fostering international academic cooperation and in making research knowledge accessible to wider audiences, both within academia and among the general public.
Selected Publications:
- Zeev Levin, “From local to global: transformations of Bukharan Jewish community organization in the twentieth century,” Nationalities Papers, 42 (2), 2014, 321-335.
- Zeev Levin, Collectivization and Social Engineering, Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939 (Brill Academic Publishers, 2015).
- Zeev Levin, “Jews in Central Asia.” in: Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. ed. Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com - Zeev Levin (Guest Editor), East European Jewish Affairs (EEJA) "Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II: German occupation, Soviet evacuation, and the imagined relationship between these two experiences", 46(1) (2016).
- Zeev Levin, Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Central Asia: Bukhara and Afghanistan (Yad Ben-Zvi, 2018) (Hebrew)
- Zeev Levin, Jewish Evacuees and Deportees in the Soviet Union, 1939-1946 (Hazit ha-Kavod, Jerusalem: 2020). (Russian)
- Zeev Levin, “Religious, National or Cultural? A Case Study of Frameworks for Jewish Education in Post-Soviet Central Asia,” Central Asian Survey, 40 (3) 2021, 368-381.
- Zeev Levin, “Central Asian Republics and the State of Israel: Relations on a Firm but Low Fire”, in Rotem Kowner and Yoram Evron eds. Israel-Asia Relations in the 21st Century, (Routledge, London: 2023), pp. 185-200.
- Zeev Levin (Guest Editor), Central Asian Survey (CAS), “Jews and their Neighbors in Central Asia and the Caucasus” 44(2),(2025)
- Zeev Levin, and Viacheslav Konstantinov, “Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles”, Central Asian Survey, 44 (2) 2025, 162-182.
