By , Special to JTNews
Professor Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, will deliver the three Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures for 2002, which will be held in Kane Hall 220 at 7 p.m. on May 6, 8 and 13.
The overarching title of this year’s series is “Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning.” On May 6, Stanislawski will lecture on “In the culture of the rabbis: Asher of Reichshofen and Glikl of Hameln.” On May 8, he will speak on “Two Russian Jews: Moshe Leib Lilienblum and Osip Mandelstam.” On May 13, he will talk about “Autobiography as Farewell: Stephan Zweig and Sarah Kofman.”
Stanislawski is currently the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, the chair of the Interdepartmental Committee on Yiddish Studies and the associate director of the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies. He received his A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.
In addition to his work at Columbia, Stanislawski served as assistant professor at the University of Washington and visiting professor at Brown University, University College London, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Russian Research Center, Harvard University and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The author of countless monographs and review essays in Jewish, Russian, Polish and European intellectual history, Stanislawski has also written numerous books, including Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews, For Whom Do I Toil? and most recently, Zionism and the Fin-de-siecle, published last year by the University of California Press.
The Jewish Studies Program is a topical program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.