Steven J. Zipperstein

Ph.D in Russian and Jewish History,
UCLA, 1980
Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History; Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University
Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University; Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
CGIS South, Room S314
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
zipperst@fas.harvard.edu

Department of History
Building 200, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
650.725.5660

Research Interests
Russian and East European Jewish history; modern Jewish history; history of Zionism; biography.

Current Projects
Comprehensive history of Russian and East European Jewish history from the 18th century to the present (writing a book under contract with Houghton Mifflin).

Selected Publications
The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881 (Stanford UP, 1985).

Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism (U of California, 1993).

Imagining Russian Jewry; Memory, History, Identity (U of Washington Press, 1999).

Co-editor, with Jonathan Frankel, Assimilation and Community in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge UP, 1988).

Co-editor, with Aron Rodrigue, Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society.