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At the heart of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford is a distinguished faculty with a range of expertise in the fields of Jewish history, thought and literature. With primary appointments in the departments of History, Religious Studies and English, our faculty bring a rich variety of perspectives to their scholarship and teaching.

Faculty Affiliated with the Taube Center for Jewish Studies

Zachary Baker
(Yiddish Studies, East European Jewry, Judaica Bibliography)
Judaica/Hebraica Curator, University Libraries
Green Library HRG
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
E-mail: zbaker@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1054
Fax: (650) 725-1068

Joel Beinin
(Middle Eastern Politics, the Arab-Israeli Conflict)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 326
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: beinin@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-4956
Site: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/beinin_joel.html

Jonathan Berger
Department of Music
Knoll 303
Stanford, CA 94305
E-mail: brg@ccrma.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-4971 x301
Site: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~brg/

Arnold Eisen, Professor Emeritus
(Modern Jewish Thought, Modern Jewish Community)
Department of Religious Studies
E-mail: arneisen@stanford.edu
Site: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/relstud/faculty.html

Amir Eshel, Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies
(German and Jewish Literature, Hebrew Literature)
Department of German Studies
Building 260, Room 202
Stanford, CA 94305-2030
E-mail: eshel@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723 0413
Site: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/german/faculty/eshel.html

John Felstiner, Professor Emeritus
(Holocaust Literature, European Jewish Literature)
Department of English
Building 460, Room 327
Stanford, CA 94305-2087
E-mail: felstiner@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-4722
Site: http://english.stanford.edu/

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities
(American Literature, Jewish American Literature)
Department of English
Building 460, Room 420
Stanford, CA 94305-2087
E-mail: sfishkin@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-1804
Site: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/fishkin

Charlotte Fonrobert
(Rabbinic Culture, Classical Judaism, Gender Studies)
Department of Religious Studies
Building 70, Room 71B
Stanford, CA 94305-2165
E-mail: fonrober@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1713
Site: http://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/people/fonrobert

Avner Greif
Department of Economics
Stanford, CA 94305
E-mail: avner@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-8936
Site: http://www-econ.stanford.edu/faculty/greifhp.html

Katherine Jolluck
(History of Modern Eastern Europe/Poland/Russia/Soviet Union, Women & War, Gender & Nationality)
Department of History
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: jolluck@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-1884
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/jolluck_katherine.html

Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Chair in Education and Jewish
School of Education
Stanford, CA 94305-3096
E-mail: aykelman@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-0795
Site: http://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/aykelman

Mark Mancall, Professor Emeritus
(History of Zionism, State of Israel, Bible)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 119
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: mmancall@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-5630
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/mancall_mark.html

Norman Naimark
(Eastern Europe)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 113
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: naimark@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-2674
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/naimark_norman.html

Reviel Netz
(History of pre-modern Mathematics)
Department of Classics
Building 110
Stanford, CA 94305-2145
E-mail: reviel.netz@stanford.edu
Site: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/people/faculty/reviel-netz

Jack Rakove
(US History)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 117
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: rakove@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-4514
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/rakove_jack.html

Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, and Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities - Director, Stanford Humanities Center
(Modern Jewish History, Sephardic and French Jewry)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 238
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: rodrigue@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-1585
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/rodrigue_aron.html

Gabriella Safran, Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies
(19th C. Russian literature, Yiddish language and literature)
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Building 40, Room 42K
Stanford, CA 94305-2006
E-mail: gsafran@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-4414
Site: http://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/gabriella-safran

Vered Shemtov, Eva Chernov Lokey Senior Lecturer in Hebrew Language and Literature
(Hebrew language and Literature)
Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages
Building 240, Room 206
Stanford, CA 94305-2006
E-mail: vshemtov@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1559
Site: http://www.stanford.edu/class/hebrew/about/vered.html

Lee Shulman, Professor Emeritus
School of Education
Stanford, CA 94305-3096
E-mail: shulman@stanford.edu
Site: http://www.leeshulman.net

Peter Stansky, Professor Emeritus
(Modern British History, Anglo-Jewish History)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 236
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: stansky@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-2663
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/stansky_peter.html

Amir Weiner
(Modern Russian and Soviet History, WWII and Holocaust in Ukraine)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 336
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: weiner@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-3527
Site: http://history.stanford.edu/people/weiner_amir.html

Steve Weitzman
(Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Religion)
Department of Religious Studies
Building 70, Room 71L
Stanford, CA 94305-2165
E-mail: sweitzma@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 721-2059
Site: http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/weitzman

Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education
(Teaching and learning of history, the nature and development of historical consciousness)
School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3096
E-mail: wineburg@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-4411
Site: http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/contents/sam_wineburg.html

Steven Zipperstein, The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History
(Modern Jewish History, Russian and East European Jewry)
Department of History
Building 200, Room 11
Stanford, CA 94305-2024
E-mail: steven.zipperstein@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-5660
Site: https://humanexperience.stanford.edu/zipperstein