Steven J. Zipperstein

Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author and editor of nine books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History; Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism; Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity; and Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. 

Zipperstein has served as editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies, the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture, and the award-winning Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series. His contributions to the field have been recognized by the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yitzhak Rabin Institute in Tel Aviv, and has twice been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales. He also taught in the Russia, Poland, and the United Kingdom, and was served as Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford for sixteen years. He holds a Ph.D in Russian and Jewish History from University of California, Los Angeles.