# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alek-d-epstein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:31:17.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alek-d-epstein"
name: "Alek D. Epstein"
slug: "alek-d-epstein"
description: "Alek D. Epstein is a Russian-Israeli sociologist of culture and politics. He divides his time between Jerusalem and Moscow, taking part in a number of academic, educational, social change, and civil rights activism projects in both countries. He has published more than 200 manuscripts in various scientific journals and collections and authored more than 20 books on Israel and the Middle East."
tagline: "Sociologist; Political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alek_D._Epstein_in_Kiev_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1975-04-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             4.875
  historical:           4.811844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  239
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/alek.d.epstein"
    handle:    "alek.d.epstein"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://openu.academia.edu/AlekDEpstein/CurriculumVitae"
sources:
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    title: "اليك د"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alek_Epstein"
    title: "Alek Epstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alek_Epstein"
    title: "Alek Epstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alek_D._Epstein"
    title: "Alek D. Epstein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BF%D1%88%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA"
    title: "Эпштейн, Алек"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q531682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump