Balázs was born in Budapest, and lives in Tel Aviv. He is currently a researcher at the Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University and at the Department of Jewish Peoplehood, University of Haifa. He is also a research fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA). He was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Haifa in 2021-2022, where he taught courses on the history of East-Central-European Jewry, and Holocaust memory.  He is a member of the editorial board of the journal K. Jews, Europe and the XXIst century, and the book review editor of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism. Balázs Berkovits was trained as a philosopher and a sociologist in Hungary and France (wrote his PhD on the philosophy of Michel Foucault), and obtained a Nationalism Studies degree at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. He has published on topics related to social theory, the epistemology of the social sciences, antisemitism, antizionism, and Hungarian Jewry. He is currently working on a study on the reemergence of the “Jewish problem” in contemporary works of philosophical, social and political criticism, and on various projects, which deal with the relationship between conspiracy theories, critique, and antisemitism. As a journalist, he occasionally writes about the political and social situation in contemporary Hungary.