Aron Rodrigue

Professor of History
Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies
Chair, Department of History

Email: rodrigue@stanford.edu
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At Stanford Since 1991

Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1985

A.M.,  History, Harvard University, 1979

 B.A.,  History, University of Manchester, England, 1978 (First Class Honours)

• Modern Jewish History
• History and culture of Sephardic Jews
• The Jews of Modern France
• Minority identities
• The Ottoman Empire

Graduate courses:

• Colloquium -- Jewish History, 16th-19th Centuries
• Colloquium/Reading Course – Sephardi History
• Colloquium – European History –19th Century
• Colloquium – Theories of Imperialism  (at Indiana University)
• Research Seminar – Modern Jewish History
• Research Seminar – The Ottoman Empire

Undergraduate Courses:

• Colloquium – Jews and Muslims
• Colloquium – Modern Jewish Identities
• Colloquium – The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Emergence of Modern Turkey (at Indiana University)
• Lecture – The Jew in the Medieval World
• Lecture – The Jew in the Modern World
• Lecture – The Holocaust
• Lecture – The Ottoman Empire
• Lecture – Ten Days that Shook the World (co-taught Introduction to the Humanities course)
• Lecture – Jews in the Lands of Islam in Medieval Times (at Indiana University)
• Lecture – Jews in the Lands of Islam in Modern Times (at Indiana University)
• Lecture – Introduction to the World in the 20th Century (at Indiana University)
• Lecture/Colloquium – The Making of Modern France: State, Nation, Culture (at the Stanford Program in Paris)
• Lecture/Colloquium – “Difference” in France: Minorities, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants (at the Stanford Program in Paris)
• Lecture/Colloquium – French Colonialism and its Aftermath (at the Stanford Program in Paris)
• Lecture/Colloquium – France during World War II

BOOKS:

• Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000 (with Esther Benbassa), revised and expanded paperback edition of The Jews of the Balkans: The Judeo-Spanish Community, 15th to 20th Centuries, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
  • French version appeared under the title of Juifs des Balkans: Espaces judeé-iberiques XIVe-XXe siècles, Paris: La Découverte, 1993 (updated paperback by Seuil, 2002).Translated into Hebrew, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and German.
• Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Transition, 1860-1939: The Teachers of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993 (paperback title Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Transition, 2003). Revised and expanded version of  De l’instruction à l’émancipation: Les enseignants de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle et les Juifs d’Orient, 1860-1939, Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1989.Translated into Hebrew.

• French Jews, Turkish Jews: The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Politics of Jewish Schooling in Turkey, 1860-1925, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Translated into Turkish.

EDITED BOOKS:

• A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe: The Autobiography and Journal of Gabriel Arie (with Esther Benbassa), Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. English version of Une vie judéo-espagnole à l'Est: Gabriel Arié, Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1992.
• Ottoman and Turkish Jewry: Community and Leadership, Bloomington: Indiana University Turkish Studies Series, 1992.
• (edited catalogue with introduction) Guide to Ladino Materials in the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library, 1992.

ARTICLES:

• “Totems, Taboos, and Jews: Salomon Reinach and the Politics of Scholarship in Fin-de-Siècle France, Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society (new series), 10 (Winter 2004), pp. 1-19.
•  “Comment: The French and German Jewish “Civilizing Mission” in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century” in  Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron, and Uri D. Kaufmann, eds.,  Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models (Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck Instituts, 66), Philadelphia: Coronet Books, 2003, pp. 121-128.
• “The Ottoman Balkans” in Reeva S. Simon, Michael M. Laskier, Sara Reguer,  eds., The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 292-302.
• “The Mass Destruction of Armenians and Jews in the 20th Century in Historical Perspective” in Hans-Lukas Kieser and Dominik J. Schaller, eds., Der Völkermord and den Armeniern und die Shoah, Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 2002, pp. 303-316.
•  “The Ottoman Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of Ladino Literary Culture” in David Biale, ed., Cultures of the Jews: A New History, New York: Schocken Books, 2002, pp. 863-885.
• “Der Balkan vom 15. Bis zum 20. Jahrhundert” in Elke-Vera Kotowski, Julius H. Schoeps, Hiltrud Wallenborn, eds., Handbuch zur Geschichte der Juden in Europa, Darmstadt: Primus Verlag (2001), Vol. I, pp. 296-324
• “Léon Halévy and Modern French Jewish Historiography” in Elisheva Carlebach, John Efron, David Myers, eds., History, Jews, and Memory, Hanover: University Press of New England (1998), pp. 413-427.
• “Les enfants de Crémieux: Devenir de l’Alliance Israélite Universelle,” Les Cahiers du Judaïsme, 1 (1998), pp. 94-100.
• “Rearticulations of French Jewish Identities after the Dreyfus Affair,” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society (New Series), 2 (Fall 1996), pp. 1-26.
• “Eastern Sephardi Jewry and New Nation-States in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries” in Harvey Goldberg, ed., Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries: History and Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1996), pp. 81-88
• “Difference and Tolerance in the Ottoman Empire,” interview by Nancy Reynolds, Stanford Humanities Review, 5 (Fall 1995), pp. 81-92. Availabe also at http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/5-1/text/rodrigue.html
• “From Millet to Minority: Turkish Jewry in the 19th and 20th Centuries” in Pierre Birnbaum and Ira Katznelson, eds., Paths of Emancipation: Jews within States and Capitalism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 238-261.
• “The Beginnings of Westernization and Communal Reform among Istanbul Jewry 1854-1865” in Avigdor Levy, ed., The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995, pp. 439-456.
• “The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire” in Elie Kedourie, ed., Spain and the Jews: The Sephardi Experience 1492 and after, London: Thames and Hudson, 1992, pp. 162-188.
• “Abraham de Camondo of Istanbul:  The Transformation of Jewish Philanthropy” in Frances Malino and David Sorkin, eds., From East and West:  Jews in a Changing Europe 1750-1870.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990, pp. 46-56.
• “ L'exportation du paradigme révolutionnaire: Son influence sur le judaïsme sépharade et orientale” in Pierre Birnbaum, ed., Histoire politique des Juifs de France:  Entre universalisme et particularisme,  Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1990, pp. 182-195.

• “The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Attempt to Reform Rabbinical and Religious Instruction in Turkey” in Simon Schwarzfuchs, ed., L’Alliance dans les communautés du bassin méditerranéen à la fin du 19e siècle et son influence sur la situation sociale et culturelle, Jerusalem: Misgav Yerushalayim, 1987, pp. LIIILXX.
• “The Westernization of Turkish Jews:  The Making of a Polyglot Community,” Tarih ve Toplum (History and Society) (in Turkish), no. 31 (July 1986), pp. 1721.
• “L'artisanat juif en Turquie à la fin du 19e siècle,” Turcica: Revue des Etudes turques, 17 (1985), pp. 113126 (with Esther Benbassa). 
• “German Popular Opinion and the Jews in the Third Reich:  Recent Publications and Trends of Research on German Society and the  ‘Jewish Question,’” Yad Vashem Studies (in English and in Hebrew), 16 (1984), pp. 421435 (with Otto Dov Kulka). 
• “Jewish Society and Schooling in a Thracian Town:  The Alliance Israélite Universelle in Demotica, 1897-1924,” Jewish Social Studies, 45 (Summer-Fall 1983), pp. 263286.

AWARDS:

• Ina Levine Senior Scholar in Residence, Center for Advanced Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003-2004
• Fellow, American Academy of Jewish Research, 2002-
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1998
• Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, 1998
• National Jewish Book Council Honor Award in Sephardic Studies for the book Images..., 1994
• Translation Grant, for the book Une vie judéo-espagnole..., Maurice Amado Foundation, 1994
• Research Grant, Ministry for Research, France, 1992
• Research Grant,  Maurice Amado Foundation,  1991-1992
• Finalist, National Jewish Book Council Prize in Jewish History for the book, French Jews, Turkish Jews, 1991
• The Toledano Prize, 1989
• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988-1989
• Outstanding Young Faculty Award, Indiana University, 1988
• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1988
• Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1988
• Indiana University Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1987
• Grant-in-Aid, Indiana University, 1986
• Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship, 1985-1987

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

• Chair, Department of History, Stanford University, 2005 -
• Director, Meditarranean Studies Forum, 2005 -
• Co-Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, 2001 - 2005

• Member, American Historical Association
• Member, Association for Jewish Studies
• Member, Academic Board, Centre Alberto Benveniste pour les études et la culture sépharade, University of Paris (Sorbonne – EPHE)
• Member, Academic Advisory Board, American Sephardi Federation – Center for Jewish History, New York
• Member, Society for French Historical Studies