Gil Ribak

Prof. Gil Ribak is an Associate Professor at The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Born and raised in Israel, Professor Ribak came to the U.S. on a Fulbright Fellowship and completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He held several academic positions, such as the Director of the Institute on Israeli-American Jewish Relations at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. His book, "Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants", was published by Rutgers University Press in 2012. Prof. Ribak has published numerous articles in journals such as, "AJS Review", "American Jewish History", "East European Jewish Affairs", "Israel Studies Forum", "Jewish Quarterly Review", "Journal of American Ethnic History", "Modern Judaism", and "Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies", among others, as well as many book chapters, of which most recently is "Cleanliness Like That of the Germans': Eastern European Jew's Views of Germans and the Dynamics of Migration and Disillusionment", in Steven J. Gold (ed.), "Wandering Jews: Global; Jewish Migration". 

His second book is about the representation of Black people in popular Yiddish culture. In 2021-2022, Prof. Ribak served as the European Union's Marie S. Curie Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany.