SUP Welcomes Two New Series Editors

Jessica Marglin and Daniel B. Schwartz announced as new series editors for Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Jessica Marglin and Daniel B. Schwartz. Credit: Scarlett Freund

 

Stanford University Press is pleased to welcome Jessica Marglin and Daniel B. Schwartz as the new editors for the Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture series. They have kindly written a brief piece about their goals and excitement for the series.

We are honored and humbled to take over the editorship of the acclaimed Stanford Series in Jewish History and Culture from the previous series editors, David Biale (z’l) and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. David, who passed away last July, and Sarah brought their wide-ranging and ambitious approach to Jewish Studies to their work on the series. Together they made the Stanford Series in Jewish History and Culture a home for terrific, innovative, award-winning scholarship that, in many cases, drew in readers beyond academia. We hope to build on their success.

We are interested in books from across the gamut of modern Jewish history and culture. While we intend to maintain the series’ reputation for excellence in Sephardic and Mizrahi studies, European Jewish history, and the Jews of the Mediterranean, we are also eager to expand in new directions, particularly early modern history and culture and Jews of the Americas. We are excited to work with everyone from first-time authors to senior scholars. Our ideal book combines scholarly rigor, a fresh perspective, and lively prose. 

We look forward to this next chapter of the Stanford Series in Jewish History and Culture.

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Jessica Marglin is Professor of Religion, Law, and History, and the Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (2016) and The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean (2022).

Daniel B. Schwartz is Professor of History and Judaic Studies at The George Washington University. His research focuses on modern Jewish European and American intellectual, cultural, and urban history. He is the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (2012) and Ghetto: The History of a Word (2019). 

Comments

[LiftArt]

This announcement reflects both a deep respect for the legacy of David Biale and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, and an exciting new vision for the future of the Stanford Series in Jewish History and Culture. Their stewardship has clearly shaped the series into a distinguished platform for groundbreaking and accessible scholarship, which will undoubtedly continue to resonate beyond academic circles.

[Engelli Asansörü]

Continuity and innovation of the series: Efforts to maintain the series’ current strength while also addressing a wider range of issues, particularly new areas such as the early modern period and American Jewry.

Multidisciplinary approach: Aims to appeal to researchers from different disciplines by combining academic rigour, innovative perspectives and a lively language.

Accessibility: Encouraging work that will appeal not only to the academic community but also to the general reader.

This statement suggests the following developments in the series’ future:

Further deepening of Sephardic and Mizrahi studies, European Jewish history and Mediterranean Jewry.

Including new work in lesser-studied areas such as the early modern period and American Jewry.

Including work by both established scholars and a new generation of scholars.
Publishing more popular works that will appeal to readers outside of academia.

Total, the new editors of the Stanford Jewish History and Culture Series offer a very ambitious and exciting vision for the future of the series. This vision seems to pave the way for new studies that will make significant contributions to both the academic world and the general reader.

[Merdiven Asansörü]

this is good work guys. thanks.

[Volkan Kandemir]

Thanks for this article. Different perspectives are always good.

[Serdar Yasar]

This article offers a hopeful vision for the future of the Stanford Jewish History and Culture Series. The passionate and inclusive approach of the new editors is likely to help the series grow and develop both academically and for a broader audience. thanks