- Shaul Stampfer
Shaul Stampfer (1948-) is a researcher of East European Jewry specializing in Lithuanian
yeshiva s, and Jewish demography, migration and education.Biography
Shaul Stampfer, born in
Atlanta , Georgia, graduated from Lincoln High School in 1965, received his BA from theYeshiva University in 1970 and his Ph.D. from theHebrew University of Jerusalem in 1982. [http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/Profs/HU/jewish%20history/stampfer.htm]Academic career
In 1989-1992 Stampfer was a head of the Institute for Jewish Studies in
Moscow and helped to establish the city's Jewish University. Stampfer is currently a professor of Soviet and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University. [http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/stampfer.html] His book on Lithuanian yeshivas (published in Hebrew in 2005) has been translated into English and is scheduled for publication by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.Published work
*"The Pushke and Its Development," "Cathedra" 21 (Oct. 1981): 89 - 102 (in Hebrew).
*"The 1764 census of Polish Jewry," "Bar-Ilan" 24-25(1989): 41-147.
*“The Geographical Beckground of East European Jewish Migration to the United States before World War I,” in Ira A. Glazier and Luigi De Rosa (eds.), "Migration across Time and Nations: Population Mobility in Historical Contexts" (New York & London, 1986), pp. 220-230.
*“Literacy Among East European Jewry in the Modern Period: Context, Background and Implications” in: S. Almog (ed.), "Transition and Change in Modern Jewish History: Essays Presented in Honor of Shmuel Ettinger" (Jerusalem, 1987), pp. 63-87 (in Hebrew).
*"The Social Implications of Very Early Marriage in Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century," in Ezra Mendelsohn and Chone Shmeruk (eds.), "Studies on Polish Jewry: Paul Glikson Memorial Volume"(Jerusalem 1987), pp. 65 - 77 (in Hebrew).
*"Heder Study, Knowledge of Torah, and the Maintenance of Social Stratification in Traditional East European Jewish Society," "Studies in Jewish Education" 3(1988): 271-289.
*"Remarriage Among Jews and Christians in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe," "Jewish History" 3,2(1988): 85-114.
*"L'amour et la famille chez les Juifs d'Europe orientale a l'epoque moderne," in Shmuel Trigano (ed.), "La Societe Juive A Travers L'histoire", vol. 2 (Paris 1992), pp. 435 - 468.
*“Gender Differentiation and Education of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe”, "Polin" 7 (1992): 459-483.
*“Patterns of Internal Jewish Migration in the Russian Empire,” in Yaacov Ro’i (ed.), "Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union" (Ilford, 1995), pp. 28-47.
*"Dormitory and Yeshiva in Eastern Europe," in "Religious Dormitory Education in Israel" (Jerusalem 1997), pp. 15-28 (in Hebrew).
*"Hungarian Yeshivot, Lithuanian Yeshivot and Josef Ben David," "Jewish History" 11,1(1997): 131-141.
*"The 1764 Census of Lithuanian Jewry and What It Can Teach Us," "Papers in Jewish Demography" 1993 (Jerusalem 1997) pp. 91 - 121.
*"Aspects of Population Growth and Migration in Polish-Lithuanian Jewry in the Modern Period," in T"he Broken Chain / Polish Jewry Through the Ages" (Jerusalem 1997) (in Hebrew).
*"Jewish Population Patterns in Pre-Partition Lithuania and Some of Their Implications," "Scripta Hierosolymitana" 38(1998)/ "Studies in the History of the Jews in Old Poland in honor of Jacob Goldberg", pp. 189 - 223.
*“What Happened to the Extended Jewish Family? Jewish Homes for the Aged in Eastern Europe,” "Studies in Contemporary Jewry" XIV (1998): 128-142.
*“Hasidic Yeshivot in Inter-War Poland”, "Polin" 11(1998): 3-24.
*"What actually happened to the Jews of Ukraine in 1648?" "Jewish History" 17,2(2003): 207-227.References
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