Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College
Mervin F. Verbit is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College
at the City University of New York and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a doctorate from Columbia University. He is also the Director of the North American
Jewish Data Bank at the CUNY Graduate School. Dr. Verbit, who specializes in the sociology of religion and in contemporary Jewry, has been visiting professor at several institutions,
among them Bar Ilan University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and Yeshiva University. Dr. Verbit has served as
president or chairman of several organizations linking
academicians to the Jewish community and as an active leader
in national Jewish affairs. |
