Michael Stanislawski
Encyclopedia
Michael F. Stanislawski is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University
. He obtained his B.A. (1973), M.A. (1975) Ph.D. (1979) from Harvard University
, and has been at Columbia since 1980. His dissertation, "Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855" was later published in 1983. Other notable books by Stanislawski include "Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky" (2001), " For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry" (1988), "Autobiographical Jews" (2004), and, most recently, "A Murder in Lemberg" (2007), which chronicles the murder of a reformist
rabbi by an Orthodox Jew
in the Ukrainian city Lemberg (now Lviv
). Stanislawski is credited as being a key intellectual in the transformation of Jewish historiography that has "embedded the narrative about the Jews in the context of Enlightenment thought, national politics, and the treatment of minorities generally."
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. He obtained his B.A. (1973), M.A. (1975) Ph.D. (1979) from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, and has been at Columbia since 1980. His dissertation, "Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855" was later published in 1983. Other notable books by Stanislawski include "Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky" (2001), " For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry" (1988), "Autobiographical Jews" (2004), and, most recently, "A Murder in Lemberg" (2007), which chronicles the murder of a reformist
Reformism
Reformism is the belief that gradual democratic changes in a society can ultimately change a society's fundamental economic relations and political structures...
rabbi by an Orthodox Jew
Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...
in the Ukrainian city Lemberg (now Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
). Stanislawski is credited as being a key intellectual in the transformation of Jewish historiography that has "embedded the narrative about the Jews in the context of Enlightenment thought, national politics, and the treatment of minorities generally."