Michael Zand

Background

Zand, Michael was born on April 16, 1927 in Kamenets-Podolsk, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Isaac and Tehilla (Shenker) Zand.

Education

Master of Arts summa cum laude, Moscow State University, 1950. Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Hebrew Union College. Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, 1971.

Career

Research worker Institute of Tajik language and literature Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, 1951-1957. Head philological department Norody Azii i Affriki Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1958-1962, research worker Institute Oriental Studies, 1962-1971. Professor Persian and Tajik literature Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1971-1995, head department Indian, Iranaian and Armenian Studies Israel, 1981-1995, professor emeritus Israel, since 1995.

Achievements

• Michael Zand has been listed as a noteworthy anthropologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Active dissent movement of intellectuals and Jewish dissent movement Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1967-1971. Member Presidium, Israel Public Council for Soviet Jewry, 1971-1979, executive council World Hebrew Union, 1976-1981, council for Higher Education, Israel, 1976-1986, Israel Council, World Jewish Congress, 1978-1982. Fellow Jewish Academy Arts and Sciences (United States).

Member Israel Oriental Society, Association for Jewish Studies United States of America (honorary), Anjoman-e Ostadan-e Zaban-o Adabiyyat-e Farsi (Iran, foreign), Association Study of the Nationalities (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and E. Europe).

Connections

Married Ninella Sheinin, November 19, 1949. Children: Inna, Eliyahu.

Father:

Isaac Zand

Mother:

Tehilla (Shenker) Zand

Spouse:

Ninella Sheinin

child:

Inna Zand

child:

Eliyahu Zand