Background
Valery Engel was born in Moscow, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
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Valery Engel
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In 1983 he graduated from the history faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University.
Career
In October 1987 he created the Jewish Historical Society. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the department of Hebraic at the University of Sorbonne. From 2001 to 2008 he worked as executive vice president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJC).
He was the first vice-president of the World Congress of Russian Jewry.
Politics
He has served as the Deputy Chairman of the international human rights movement "World without Nazism" (WWN), the first deputy of the World Congress of Russian Jewry, the president of the European Centre for the Development of Democracy in Latvia, and is a member of the European Jewish Parliament, where he represents Latvia. In June 2010 he became deputy chairman of World without Nazism, and since 2011 he has headed the European Centre for Democracy.
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In 1995, at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Science, he defended his thesis on "The Jewish Question in Russian-American relations late XIX - early XX centuries.". Doctor of Philosophy in History.
Membership
Since the mid-80s, Engel has been an active member of the independent Jewish Movement in Russia, and was one of the founders of the Vaad of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Other positions he has held include President of the Association for Jewish Studies and Jewish culture from1990-1993, member of the executive committee of the World Jewish Congress from 1991-1996, and member of the Advisory Council on National-Cultural Autonomy of the Russian government from 1996-2000.
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