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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, Associate Professor
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
Building 70, Room 72F
Stanford, CA 94305-2165
E-mail: arneisen@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-0467
Site: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/relstud/faculty.html

Amir Eshel
(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
(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
(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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/jolluck_katherine.html

Mark Mancall
(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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/naimark_norman.html

Reviel Netz
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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/rakove_jack.html

Aron Rodrigue
(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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/people/rodrigue_aron.html

Gabriella Safran
(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://www.stanford.edu/dept/slavic/faculty/safran.html

Vered Shemtov
(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

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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/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://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/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) 723-3322
Site:http://www.stanford.edu/dept/relstud/faculty.html

Sam Wineburg
(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
(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