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Michael Stanislawski

Author of Zionism: A Very Short Introduction

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About the Author

Michael Stanislawski is Nathan J. Miller Professor of History, Columbia University.

Includes the name: Michæl Stanislawski

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(yid) VIAF:46800046 (yivo)

Works by Michael Stanislawski

Zionism: A Very Short Introduction (2016) 47 copies

Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The transformation of Jewish society in Russia, 1825-1855 (1983) 33 copies

A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History (2007) — Author — 30 copies

Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky (2001) 24 copies

For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (1988) 15 copies

Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning (2004) 14 copies

Psalms for the Tsar : a minute-book of a Psalms-Society in the Russian army, 1864-1867 (1988) 2 copies

The Tsarist mishneh torah: a study in the cultural politics of the Russian haskalah 1 copy

Associated Works

The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa (1936) — Introduction, some editions — 76 copies

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Other names: STANISLAWSKI, Michael
Birthdate: 1952-01-26
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Harvard University (PhD, 1979)
Occupations: historian
Professor of Jewish History
Organizations: Columbia University
Disambiguation notice: VIAF:46800046 (yivo)

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Zionism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short… by Michael Stanislawski

A surprisingly succinct summary of the ideology's ideological sources, growth, and divisions. Unlike a lot of these Very Short Introduction's, the author has written a tight and easy-to-follow overview of a complicated subject. A must-read given world events. Needless to say, Zionism has changed a lot since Auto-Emancipation and Herzl—makes you wonder what those early guards would think of the country today.

Most interesting fact I learned: Herzl's congresses naturally had a Babel-like mix of languages and they eventually settled into a "Kongressdeutsch"—a mix of unadorned German and Yiddish. Delightful.… (more)

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For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the… by Michael Stanislawski

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National Jewish Book Award

Autobiographical Jews: Essays in Jewish Self-Fashioning (Finalist – Modern Jewish Thought and Experience – 2005)

Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The transformation of Jewish society in Russia, 1825-1855 (Winner – Jewish History – 1984)

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Works: 8
Also by: 1
Members: 166
Popularity: #127,845
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 17
Languages: 1
Favorited: 1

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