Prof. Gur Alroey – Rector

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Rector Gur Alroey is a historian of Jewish history in modern times and Head of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities between 2016-2020.

Prof. Alroey received his PhD in 2001 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main fields of research are Jewish migration in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Early Zionism and the Territorial Ideology.

Prof. Alroey is the author of six books and dozens of articles. His most recent book, “An Unpromising Land: The Jewish Migration to Palestine in the Early Twentieth Century,” was published by Stanford University Press.

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