Education
Doctor of Philosophy (1979) from Harvard University, and has been at Columbia since 1980.
Doctor of Philosophy (1979) from Harvard University, and has been at Columbia since 1980.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (1973), Master of Arts His dissertation, Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855, was later published in 1983. 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.".
Other notable books by Stanislawski include Zionism and the Finance, Financial de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky (2001), Foreign Whom Do I Toil?: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (1988), Autobiographical Jews (2004), and, most recently, A Murder in Lemberg (2007), which chronicles the murder of a reformist rabbi by an Orthodox Jew in the Ukrainian city of Lemberg (now Lviv).