Dr. Alex Valdman is a social historian of modern Eastern Europe and the Russian-speaking Jews focusing on questions of social mobility, education, historical memory and diasporic self-identification. He is a researcher at the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University and Head of the History Division at the Kaye Academic College of Education. His first book, titled Problems of Discipline: Education, Activism, and the Origins of the Jewish Intelligentsia in the Russian Empire, was recently published by the Magnes Press of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His other publications include, among others, 'A Miracle in Minsk: Secondary Education and Social Mobility in the Pale of Settlement before 1887' (Jewish Social Studies), 'Shaʼul Ginsburg and the Non-Radical Pattern in Jewish-Russian Historiography' (Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History), and 'School, Empire, and the Provincial Roots of Civil Activism in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia' (The Russian Review).
