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My research interests are spread across a wide field. My first project dealt with center-periphery relations in the interwar USSR, as well as informal diplomacy, both seen through the history of Jewish agricultural settlement in the Soviet Union. I have also devoted considerable time to the research of agricultural settlement in the modern Jewish world, together with its interactions with ethnic and international politics. Most recently, my research has focused on transnational Jewish philanthropy, migration, and diaspora studies. In 2003 I began a five-year term as Director of the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; since 2009, I have served as its Academic Chairman.