He has worked for over three decades in the field of cultural and political history of science. His work on the history of science in Russia and the Soviet Union, on the role of scientists in the collapse of the USSR, on post-Soviet science, his comparative analyses of science under political oppression has brought him recognition as a foremost expert in this field. He has also consulted major international organization as well as Canadian government agencies on issues related to this field of expertise. Professor Rabkin developed an interest in Jewish studies soon after his emigration from Russia. Besides university courses taken in Baltimore, Jerusalem and Montreal, he has also studied at the Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalaim, the Pardes Institute, the Shalom Hartman Institute and the Bet Morasha Centre for Advanced Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, at the Centre Rachi in Paris as well as in private sessions with several rabbis. He has published scholarly and general articles on Jewish and Israeli topics and has given lectures on Judaica and Jewish history in several countries. He was among the founders of the Russian Jewish programme at the Jewish Community Center in Montreal in the mid-1970s. He assisted Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz of Jerusalem to open the first overt Jewish educational institution in Moscow in 1988. He was an Associate Member of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs for over a decade. He also founded and directed the House of Jewish Knowledge, a Judaica adult education programme in Russian in Montreal in the 1990s. His publications include Science between the Superpowers, a study of Soviet-American relations in science and technology (Priority Press, 1988), The Interaction of Scientific and Jewish Cultures in Modern Times (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), Diffusion of New Technologies in Post-Communist Europe (Kluwer, 1997), a major overview of science in pre-Revolutionary Russia that appeared in L’Europe des sciences (Seuil, 2001) and a comparative analysis on science in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in Science and Ideology (Routledge, 2003). Professor Rabkin’s most recent book is A Threat from Within: a Century of Jewish opposition to Zionism (Zedbooks/Fernwood, 2006; originally published in French under the title Au nom de la Torah: une histoire de l’opposition juive au sionisme, PUL, 2004). This book, nominated for the Governor General Award in Canada in 2006, is now available in six languages. He has published over a hundred scholarly articles on the entry of Jews into modern science, on science and religion interface, on relations between science and cultures. His analyses of Jewish and Israeli issues have appeared in Tikkun, Jewish Chronicle, Passages, Aqdamot and La Presse de Montréal. Fluent in several languages, including French, English, Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish, Professor Rabkin has presented over two hundred scholarly and professional papers. He has received research awards from Belgium, Canada, France, Israel and the United States. Address: Professor Yakov M Rabkin, Département d'histoire, Université de Montréal, CP 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7 Telephone: (514) 343 7218; e-mail: yakov.rabkin@umontreal.ca.