Guest In The Pulpit
PROFESSOR FRED LAZIN
Topic: Israel at 60: An American Jewish Perspective

Fred Lazin was born in Boston and grew up in Sharon, MA. At the University of Massachusetts in Amherst he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Cum Laude in Government and History. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. In 1975 he joined the faculty at Ben Gurion University in Israel where he helped to establish an Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies and the Dept. of General Studies. At present he is the Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government and chair of the Dept. of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. He is the author of eight books dealing with public policy in the United States, Israel and developing countries, Israeli politics and society, and Jews in American politics. His latest book is The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment.