{{short description|American historian (born 1952)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} '''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,<ref>{{cite web|title = Faculty Bio: Michael Stanislawski| url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/lists/faculty.html|accessdate=2008-01-18|publisher = Columbia University Department of History}}</ref> 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."<ref>Hyman, P: "Recent Trends in European Jewish Historiography," The Journal of Modern History 77 (2005): 345-356</ref>
== Awards == 1984: National Jewish Book Award in Jewish History for ''Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews: The Transformation of Jewish Society in Russia, 1825-1855''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners?category=30765|title=Past Winners|last=|first=|date=|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-01-23}}</ref>
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