Authors
Serving as a forum for their collective knowledge, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe includes articles written by more than 450 internationally recognized scholars. This encyclopedia brings their research together for the first time. Authors are listed in alphabetical order by last name. The directory also includes the authors’ credentials and enumerates the articles they have contributed to the encyclopedia. Click on the alphabetical list below to find an author.
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Sabar, Shalom
Professor of Jewish Art and Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Safirman, Costel
Head of Research and Library Services, Jerusalem Film Center
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Safran, Gabriella
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, California
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Sagiv, Gad
Doctoral candidate in Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
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Salant, Yankl
Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, New York
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Salmon, Laura
Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione Linguistica e Culturale, Università degli Studi di Genova (Genoa)
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Salmon, Yosef
Professor of Modern Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba
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Salmon-Mack, Tamar
Independent Scholar, Jerusalem, Israel
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Samet, Moshe
Independent Scholar, Jerusalem, Israel
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Sanders, Ivan
Adjunct Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
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Saperstein, Marc
Principal and Professor of Jewish History, Leo Baeck College–Center for Jewish Education, London
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Saposnik, Arieh Bruce
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literatures, Arizona State University
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Schaeper, Silke
Retrospective Cataloguer, Library, St. John’s College, Oxford
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Schedrin, Vassili
Doctoral candidate in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
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Schochet, Elijah J.
Professor of Rabbinics, University of Judaism, Los Angeles
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Schrijver, Emile G. L.
Curator of Special Collections, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Schwartz, Shuly Rubin
Associate Professor of Jewish History and Dean of Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
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Schwarz, Jan
Senior Lecturer, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Chicago
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Schwarzfuchs, Simon
Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Schweitzer, Gábor
Research Fellow, Magyar Tudomános Akadémia Jogtudományi Intézetének, Budapest
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Šedinová, Jiřina
Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature, Institute for Near Eastern and African Studies, Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Prague)
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Seidman, Naomi
Koret Professor of Jewish Culture, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
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Seltzer, Robert M.
Professor of History, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Senkevitch, Anatole Jr.
Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
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Shaked, Malka
Professor Emeritus, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Shaler, Ahuva
Independent Scholar, Reḥovot, Israel
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Shalit-Rudnik, Shulamit
Independent Scholar, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Shandler, Jeffrey A.
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Shanes, Joshua
Assistant Professor, Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, College of Charleston, South Carolina
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Shapiro, Robert Moses
Assistant Professor of East European Jewish Studies, Holocaust Studies, and Yiddish, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
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Shaus, Yacov
Theatrical and Cinematographical Critic, Vesty (newspaper), Tel Aviv
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Shelhav, Shulamit
Senior Editor, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Kibbutz Tzora, Israel
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Sherman, Joseph
Woolf Corob Fellow in Yiddish Studies, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and University Research Lecturer, University of Oxford
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Shilo, Shmuel
Joseph Tanenbaum Professor of Jewish Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Shneer, David
Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for Judaic Studies, Denver University
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Shnirelman, Alexander
Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University, Montreal
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Sholokhova, Lyudmila
Yiddish Acquisitions and Catalog Librarian, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
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Shore, Marci
Assistant Professor of
History, Yale University
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Shrayer, Maxim D.
Professor of Russian and English, Chair, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, and Co-Director, Jewish Studies Program, Boston College
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Shternshis, Anna
Assistant Professor of Yiddish and Yiddish Literature, University of Toronto
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Shulman, Nisson
Adjunct Instructor in Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University, New York
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Shumsky, Dimitry
Mandel Scholar, Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Sicher, Efraim
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba
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Silber, Marcos
Lecturer in Jewish History, University of Haifa
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Silber, Michael K.
Senior Lecturer in Jewish History and Head, Department of the History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- Bacher, Simon
- Ballagi, Mór
- Ben Chananja
- Bratislava
- Budapest
- Chorin, Aharon
- Einhorn, Ignác
- Fleckeles, El‘azar ben David
- Friesenhausen, David
- Historiography: Historiography in Hungary
- Holländer, Leó
- Hungary: Hungary before 1918
- Josephinian Reforms
- Kahana, Yehudah
- Lichtenstein, Hillel
- Löw, Leopold
- Löw, Yirmiyahu
- Magyar Zsidó Szemle
- Munk, Me’ir Avraham
- Natonek, Yosef
- Neustadt, Adolf
- Orthodoxy
- Paneth, Yeḥezkel
- Pápa
- Rosenthal Family
- Schlesinger, Akiva Yosef
- Schwab, Löw
- Sighet Marmaţiei
- Sofer, Mosheh
- Theben, Koppel
- Ullmann Family
- Weiss, Marcus Nissa
- Wodianer Family
Silberklang, David
Editor, Yad Vashem Studies; and Adjunct Lecturer, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Simon, Robert
Head, Department of Oriental Studies, Magyar Tudomános Akadémia Nyelvtudományi Intézet, Budapest; and Professor of European Studies, Institute for Social and European Studies, Szombathely, Hungary
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Sinkoff, Nancy
Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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Slobin, Mark
Professor of Music, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
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Spector, Scott
Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of History; Faculty Associate, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; and Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan
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Spector, Shmuel
Independent Scholar, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
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Spitzer, Shlomo
Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Stampfer, Shaul
Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Stanciu, Măriuca
Sef Serviciu Informare Stiintifică– Automatizare, Biblioteca Academiei Române, Bucharest
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- Adam
- Brauner, Victor
- Curierul Israelit
- Egalitatea
- Gaster, Moses
- Ghelerter, Litman
- Halevy, Meyer Abraham
- Iancu, Marcel
- Iser, Iosif
- Mântuirea
- Maxy, Max Hermann
- Porumbacu, Veronica
- Psantir, Iacob
- Renaşterea Noastră
- Sterian, Margareta
- Stern, Adolphe
Stanislawski, Michael
Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University
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Steinlauf, Michael C.
Associate Professor of History, Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania
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Sunshine, Andrew
Assistant Dean of Students, School of General Studies, Columbia University
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Szalai, Anna
Independent Scholar, Kiryat Ono, Israel
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Szaynok, Bożena
Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Department of History, Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Wrocław, Poland)
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Szeintuch, Yechiel
Professor of Yiddish Language and Literature, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dov Sadan Institute, Israel
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