Maaty Frenkelzon

Maaty is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Tel Aviv University. His dissertation examines political language in revolutionary Russia after 1917. In the lab, he coordinates the BSF project, “One War, Two Destinations: Crisis Migration, Cultural Stress, Well-Being, and Mental Health among Ukrainian War Migrant Families in the US and Israel,” which examines mental health and social adaptation in migration, with a particular focus on the impact of war on families who relocated from Ukraine to the United States or Israel following the Russia–Ukraine war.

His broader research interests include visual documentation, Russian and Soviet history, the post-Soviet space, migration and Russian-speaking communities, historical memory, archival methodology, the relationship between language and the world in historical research, and the integration of LLM systems into academic research.

Outside academia, Maaty enjoys literature, poetry, cinema, hiking in nature, and spending time with his wife, Tanya, and their dog, Yanka.