Fred A. Lazin

Fred Lazin was born in Boston. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Cum Laude at UMASS. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He joined Ben Gurion University in Israel in 1975 where he chaired the Politics Department and directed the H. H. Humphrey Center for Social Ecology and the Overseas Student Program (OSP).

He has been a Visiting Scholar at University of Bordeaux (FR), University of Sydney (AU), NYU, and Fudan, Nanjing and Henan Universities (CN). Fred has also taught at American U., UCLA, and CUNY.

He has authored over eighty scholarly articles and book chapters and twelve books. His pioneering research on the response of American Jewish organizations to German Jewish refugees in the 1930s opened a new field in Holocaust Studies. He received the Israel Political Science Association's award for the outstanding book in 2005 for The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics; Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment. In 2019 Lexington Books published his American Christians and the National Interreligious Task Force for Soviet Jewry; A Call to Conscience.

Fred’s current research focusses on European Jewish refugees in Shanghai from 1937 to 1951.