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Steven J. Zipperstein

This article is about the Stanford professor. For the legal writer, see Steven E. Zipperstein.

Steven J. Zipperstein (born 1950) is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. Zipperstein earned his B.A., M.A and Ph.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles.[1]

Steven Zipperstein
Born1950 (age 73–74)
NationalityAmerican
Academic work
DisciplineJewish history and culture
InstitutionsStanford University

In 1993 Zipperstein accepted an invitation to teach Jewish Studies for a semester at the Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia's main center for Archival Studies in Moscow.[2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.[3]

He has reviewed books for various outlets, including for the New York Times. [4] He has also served as an editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture and Society.[5]

As of 2024, Zipperstein is working on a biography of Philip Roth and has commented on the controversy surrounding another Roth biography, "Philip Roth: The Biography" by Blake Bailey. Despite that book being temporarily pulled from publication due to sexual assault allegations against Bailey, Zipperstein believes it deserves to be published due to what he sees as its thorough research. Zipperstein, who had an amicable personal relationship with Roth, plans to publish his own biography in the future. He aims to provide a deeper literary analysis of Roth's work, exploring why he held such a prominent place in the cultural landscape.[6]

Awards

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  • Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association (2006)[7]
  • Judah L. Magnes Gold Medal (1997)[8]

Books

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  • Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (2018)
  • Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (Yale University Press,2009)[9][10]
  • The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century edited volume; co-edited with Gabriella Safran (Stanford University Press, 2006)[10]
  • Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (University of Washington Press, 1999)[11][12][13][14][15]
  • Zipperstein, Steven J. (1985). The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804766845.

References

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  1. ^ "Steven Zipperstein | Department of History". history.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  2. ^ Katz, Leslie (26 March 1993). "Stanford professor brings Jewish reality to Russian students". Jewish Bulletin of Northern California.
  3. ^ "Members Elected in 2023 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences". www.amacad.org. 2023-12-01. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  4. ^ Zipperstein, Steven J. (2020-04-07). "What Were the Origins of the Holocaust?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  5. ^ "Dr. Steven Zipperstein - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". www.ushmm.org. Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  6. ^ Esenstein, Andrew (June 7 2021). "'It deserves to exist': Stanford prof who knew Philip Roth weighs in on biography controversy". JWeekly. Retrieved 7 July 2024. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Honors in Yiddish". The Forward. 2008-12-12. Retrieved 2024-07-07.
  8. ^ Correspondent (April 25, 1997). "Four to be inducted in Hebrew U.s new Hall of Fame". JWeekly. Retrieved July 7, 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Altschuler, Glen C. (15 April 2009). "Book Review: Wunderkind Lost: Rosenfeld's Passage From Home". The Forward. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  10. ^ a b Norich, Anita (November 2010). "Book Review: Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing". AJS Review. 34 (2): 438–440. doi:10.1017/S0364009410000565. JSTOR 40982854. S2CID 162916720. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  11. ^ Kobrin, Rebecca (Summer 2004). "Book review: Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity". Jewish Quarterly Review. 94 (3): 542. doi:10.1353/jqr.2004.0063. S2CID 162055892.
  12. ^ Balin, Carol B. (September 2000). "Book review: Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity". American Jewish History. 88 (3): 427. doi:10.1353/ajh.2000.0048. S2CID 161389359.
  13. ^ Halkin, Hillel (30 July 1999). "Book review: A Defense of Passion in the Study of History: A Scholar of Russian Jewry Questions His Own Relationship to His Subject; Imagining Russian Jewry; Memory, History, Identity". The Forward.
  14. ^ Roskies, David (April 2002). "Book Review: Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity". AJS Review. 26 (1): 213.
  15. ^ Lum, Rebecca (17 September 1999). "A history of Russian Jewry with memory at its core". Jewish Bulletin of Northern California.


 

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