Faculty Updates Norman Naimark, the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, currently serves as the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division, which the Taube Center for Jewish Studies is a part of. Most recently he co-edited a book with Ronald Grigor Suny and Fatma Muge Gocek entitled A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011). In addition, he was elected Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Jack Rakove’s book Beyond Believe, Beyond Conscience: The Radial Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies. Aron Rodrigue, the Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture, finished his five-year term as Director of the Stanford Humanities Center at the end of the summer of 2013 and has been on a much-deserved research leave in 2013-14. In 2013, he was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture et Communication, and the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques, Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale, both awarded by the Republic of France. Most recently, he has published A Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012), which he edited with his former student Sarah Abrevaya Stein (see Alumni Updates). In addition, he published a paper, “Reflections on Millets and Minorities: Ottoman Legacies,” which appeared in a collection edited by Riva Kastoryano, Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization (Routledge, 2013). Noah Rosenberg, who joined the Department of Biology recently, edited and published—together with outgoing Director Steven Weitzman—From Generation to Generation: The Genetics of Jewish Populations, a special issue of the journal Human Biology (2013, vol. 85, pp. 817939).
Gabriella Safran, the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, has been working on two research projects, both involving literature and the history of listening: one on the 20th-century valorization of Jewish speech style in Russia and the United States, and another on the pre-revolutionary construction of Eastern European voice as mysterious and soulful. As chair of the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and director of the Slavic Department, she is involved with the teaching of modern languages and literatures throughout the university. During the summer of 2014, she joined a folklore expedition to Siberia. Vered Karti Shemtov moved from the Middle Eastern Studies Program to the Department of Comparative Literature and is now the Eva Chernov Lokey Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Comparative Literature. In 2012, she co-edited with Amir Eshel and Hannan Hever a special issue of Jewish Social Studies (JSS 18:3, Spring/Summer 2012) on History and Responsibility: Hebrew Literature Facing 1948 (18, Number 3, Spring/Summer 2012). That same year she also published her book Changing Rhythms: Towards a Theory of Prosody in Cultural Context (in Hebrew) with Bar Ilan Press in Israel. In addition, she was nominated to be the head of the Literature Committee at the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Steve Zipperstein, the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, expects to complete the writing of his cultural history of Russian Jewry in the early the 20th century by spring 2015. During a sabbatical leave in spring 2014, he was named the first Jacob Kronhill visiting senior scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. In June 2014, he gave a keynote address at the Central European University’s conference on “Narratives of Violence,” and in September 2014, he will be a visiting Professor at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization. For a full list of Jewish Studies Faculty please visit our website: http://jewishstudies.stanford.edu/faculty
Recent Faculty Books and Journals
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