Reuven Enoch is Prof. of the Israeli Heritage department of Ariel University and  serves as the Head of the Institute of the Institute for research of Jewish Communities of The Caucauses and Central Asia. He published 10 books and over 50 articles and translated 6 books. Prof. Enoch received his PhD from the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. From 1975 to 1992 (immigration to Israel) Prof. Enoch was a docent and in 1980-1992 served as the deputy dean of the Faculty of Philology at the same university. After the immigration Prof. Enoch served as the research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute in 1995-2010. Prof. Enoch teaches at Ariel University since 1999.