Judith Shuval

In 1949, she immigrated to Israel and worked at the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology from Radcliffe College at Harvard University in 1955. That same year, she was appointed an adviser on immigrant absorption for UNESCO.

Awards and honors In 1959, Shuval received the Helen De-Roy prize, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In 1965, she was awarded the Israel Prize for sociology. In 1995, Hadassah awarded her the Henrietta Szold Award for public medicine and hygiene.

Publications Immigrants on the Threshold 1963 The Dynamics of Transition: Entering Medicine 1979 Social Functions of Medical Practice (with A. Antonovsky and A.M. Davies) 1970 Newcomers and Colleagues: Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel 1984 Immigrant Physicians: Former Soviet Doctors in Israel, Canada and the United States (with J.H.Bernstein) 1997 Immigration to Israel: Sociological Perspectives (with E.Leshem) 1998 [Immigration to Israel: Sociological Perspectives] Social Structure and Health in Israel (with O.Anson) 2000