Michael F. Stanislawski (born 1952) is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University.
He obtained his B.A. (1973), M.A. (1975) Ph.D. (1979) from Harvard University,[1] and has been at Columbia since 1980. His dissertation, Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855, was published in 1983.
Other notable books by Stanislawski include Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky (2001), For Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (1988), Autobiographical Jews (2004).
His most recent book, A Murder in Lemberg (2007), chronicles the murder of a reformist rabbi by an Orthodox Jew in the Ukrainian city of Lemberg (now Lviv).
Stanislawski is credited as being a key intellectual in the transformation of Jewish historiography that has "embedded the narrative about the Jews in the context of Enlightenment thought, national politics, and the treatment of minorities generally."[2]
1984: National Jewish Book Award in Jewish History for Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855[3]
