Ph. D. in Sociology. Senior resercher, Institute for Sociology, Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE), Budapest, 1990-present. Professor, Nationalism Studies Program/Jewish Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Warsaw.

Publications include: Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity in Post-Communist Hungary in Randolph L. Braham, ed., Antisemitism and the Treatment of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe (1994), Jews and Politics in Hungary in Peter Y. Medding, ed., Values, Interest and Identity (1995), Anti-Semitism and the Young Elite in Hungary, Sociological Papers, No. 3, (1996), Antisemitic prejudices in Contemporary Hungary, ACTA, No. 16, (1999), Jewish Assimilation and Jewish Politics in Modern Hungary In: Jewish Studies at the Central European University, (1997-1999). Ed. A. Kovacs Central European University, Budapest-Warsaw, (2000).