Michaеl Stanislawski
Michael Stanislawski is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History, and Director Emeritus of The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, at Columbia University. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard, and specializes in Jewish, European intellectual, and Russian history, and in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. His most recent book, Zionism: A Very Short History was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. His other publications include Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews (1983), For Whom do I Toil: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (1986), Psalms for the Tsar (1986), Zionism and the Fin-de Siècle (2001), Autobiographical Jews (2005), and A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History (2007), Hebrew translation 201 . He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Israel Supreme Court Project at Cardozo Law School, and has served as a visiting professor of law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the Reichman University (formerly The Interdisciplinary Center) Faculty of Law, as well as the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town and the Jewish Studies Program of the Central European University, formerly of Budapest.