Background
Bregel, Yuri was born on November 13, 1925 in Moscow. Came to the United States, 1981. Son of Hanoch and Sarah (Indenbaum) Bregel.
Bregel, Yuri was born on November 13, 1925 in Moscow. Came to the United States, 1981. Son of Hanoch and Sarah (Indenbaum) Bregel.
Diploma in History, Moscow State University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, 1961.
Senior editor, head department, Oriental Literature Public House, Moscow, 1957-1962; research fellow, Institute Oriental Studies Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow, 1962-1973; associate professor, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1974-1977; Eliahu Elath professor of history of the Muslim peoples, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, 1978-1981; professor Uralic and Altaic studies, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1981. Visiting member School History Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, 1977-1978. Director Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana U., since 1985, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, since 1988.
Lieutenant artillery Soviet Army, 1943-1946. Member Association for Advancement of Central Asian Research, Association for Central Asian Studies.
Married Liliya Rosenberg, February 1, 1955. 1 child, Nataliya.