Gabriel Gorodetsky

Who is Gabriel Gorodetsky?

Gabriel Gorodetsky is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the holder of the Rubin Chair for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Gorodetsky studied History and Russian Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and went on to obtain his Ph.D degree under the supervision of British historian E.H. Carr in Oxford. He was the director of the Cummings Center for Russian Studies at Tel Aviv University from 1991-2007. He has been a visiting fellow of St. Antony's College in Oxford in 1979 and in 1993, of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington in 1986, of All Souls in Oxford in 2006, and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Gorodetsky was also a visiting professor at the universities of Munich and Cologne, and at the Central European University in Budapest. In 2010 Gorodetsky received an honorary doctorate from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.

He is married to Dr. Ruth Herz, a judge in Cologne, judge in the RTL TV series "Das Jugendgericht", research fellow of the Centre of Criminology at the University of Oxford, author of "Recht Persönlich" and "The Art of Justice: The Judge's Perspective".