Yakov rabkin biography of rory

Canadian historian

Yakov M. Rabkin (born 29 September 1945) is a professor emeritus of history at the Université de Montréal, author and public intellectual.

His published works include studies of relations between science and technology,^[1] research on cultural aspects of science,^[2][3] including studies of Jews in the scientific profession,^[4]Science Between the Superpowers (Priority Press), a study of programs for the exchange of U.S and Soviet Union scientists,^[5] as well as works on the fate of Soviet science^[6] and scientists^[7] after the dismemberment of the USSR and, more generally, on science and political freedoms.^[8] As a result of his graduate seminar on demodernization and an international conference he organized in Nice in 2016, he co-edited Demodernization: a Future in the Past,^[9] a multidisciplinary volume on reverses of modernity as a global phenome