Professor Benjamin Pinkus' major studies are centered
on the National question; Extra-territorial National Minorities
in the Soviet Union (Germans, Poles, etc.);
Modern Jewish History;
The Zionist Movement in Russia and in the Soviet Union
and Soviet-Israeli and French-Israeli Relations, 1947-1969;
The Jews of the U.S.S.R in the Gorbachev Era.
Prof. Pinkus Received The Bialik Prize for Jewish Thought,
Tel Aviv, 1994

Selected Publications

Books

• Thése de doctorat: le Dépérissement de L'etat selon le marxisme-léninisme en U.R.S.S.: théorie et pratique, Paris, 1970, 2 vols.
• The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967. A Documented study, Cambridge 1989, Cambridge University Press and Israel Academy of Sciences. Awarded the Keneneth  B. Smilen Literary  Award for the best book on Jewish Themes, New York 1985.
• Die Deutschen in der Sowjetunion Geschichte einer nationalen Minderheit im 20. Yahrhundert Baden-Baden 1987.
• The Jews of the Soviet Union, The History of a National Minority, Combrige, 1988.
•  Evrei I Evreiski narod (The Jews and the Jewish People) 1948-1953. Introduction, Documents and Notes), Jerusalem, 1973, 7 vols.

Prof. Benjamin Pinkus (Emeritus)