About

Aron Rodrigue is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History in the Department of History at Stanford University. He holds a Ph.D. and an A.M.. in History from Harvard University, and a B.A. with First Class Honours from the University of Manchester. His academic work focuses on Jewish culture and history, contributing to the understanding of Jewish studies through his teaching and research at Stanford. As a faculty member at the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, he is involved in advancing the university's mission in Jewish studies and related fields.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Law
• Ancient history
• Archaeology
• History

Selected publications

• Acknowledgments

  University of California Press eBooks · 2023

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science

  Acknowled gmentsThis particular task of translation has been nothing if not a group effort.Our gratitude goes, first and foremost, to Leïla Sebbar, for her ongoing commitment to telling nuanced, complex stories from parts of the world too often shrouded in stereotype, and for entrusting us with the project of bringing these stories to an even larger readership.Our appreciation also goes to Patrice Rötig, founder and editor-in-chief of Éditions Bleu autour (the publishing house responsible for the original French version of this volume), for his permission to translate this work.We also thank his co-editor, Emmanuelle Boucaud, for her prompt replies to so many administrative queries.A small team of translators are at the heart of this project, animated by a sense of mission and, as is unfortunately too often the case, for no financial gain of their own.And so we are indebted to Jane Kuntz, Rebekah Vince, and Robert Watson for their linguistic skill, their cultural acumen, and for their good will.Numerous scholars and experts in the field responded generously to various calls for help.We are grateful to Aomar Boum, Nouri Gana, Ali Iğmen,

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• Prologue: The Long Twilight

  Modernity, memory and identity in South-East Europe · 2022 · 1 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Ancient history
  • History
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• The Rabbinical Seminary in Italian Rhodes, 1928–38: An Italian Fascist Project

  Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 2019-01-01

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  The Italian Fascist government of the island of Rhodes established a rabbinical seminary in 1928. The aim was not only to train rabbis, giving them a modern education, but also to create vectors of Italian influence in the Sephardi communities where the rabbis would assume duties once they graduated. The establishment of this institution was a response to the acute crisis in the education and formation of modern rabbis, especially chief rabbis, among the Sephardim of the Levant. The new seminary relied on the financial support of the Italian government and on subsidies from Jewish communities. The seminary closed because of financial difficulties in 1938, at the same time that antisemitic legislation was introduced in Italy.

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• Jews and Muslims

  University of Washington Press eBooks · 2015-12-31

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  Illuminates the history of the many Jewish communities that lived in predominantly Muslim lands before European colonialism and the emergence of Zionism and Arab nationalism led to mass departures of Jews in the mid-20th century, offering a unique perspective, from within, on the historical background of some of the most vexing problems of the modern Middle East.

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• Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times

  2015-08-14 · 17 citations

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  AcknowledgmentsA Note on the DocumentsMapIntroductionAn Overview of the Alliance's ActivitiesPART ONE THE SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS OF THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLEInstruction in the Alliance SchoolsThe Alliance Teaching CorpsPART TWO THE DISCOURSE OF THE ALLIANCE TEACHERS AND THE CIVILIZING OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE LANDS OF ISLAMThe Moralizing AgendaThe Emancipation and Reformation of WomenThe Transformation of the Social Structure of the Jewish CommunityThe Critique of Traditional JudaismThe War of LanguagesA Portrait of the CommunitiesThe Impact of the West and the Alliance SchoolsPART THREE THE ALLIANCE TEACHER AS POLITICAL ACTIVIST AND POLITICAL OBSERVERThe Task of ProtectionThe Teacher as Patriot and Advocate of the JewsThe Age of NationalismConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex of Personal NamesIndex of Place Names

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• A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe

  University of Washington Press eBooks · 2015-12-31

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  Autobiographical texts are rare in the Sephardi world. Gabriel Arié’s writings provide a special perspective on the political, economic, and cultural changes undergone by the Eastern Sephardi community in the decades before its dissolution, in regions where it had been constituted since the expulsion from Spain in 1492. His history is a fascinating memoir of the Sephardi and Levantine bourgeoisie of the time. For his entire life, Arié—teacher, historian, community leader, and businessman—was caught between East and West. Born in a small provincial town in Ottoman Bulgaria in 1863, he witnessed the disappearance of a social and political order that had lasted for centuries and its replacement by new ideas and new ways of life, which would irreversibly transform Jewish existence. A Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe publishes in full the autobiography (covering the years 1863-1906) and journal (1906-39) of Gabriel Arié, along with selections from his letters to the Alliance Israélite Universelle. An introduction by Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue analyzes his life and examines the general and the Jewish contexts of the Levant at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries.

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• Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur

  Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur · 2014-01-01

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• Salonica in Jewish Historiography

  Jewish History · 2014-11-03 · 3 citations

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• Editors’ Introduction

  Stanford University Press eBooks · 2012-01-11

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• Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1938–1940

  AltaMira Press eBooks · 2011-01-01

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  <JATS1:p>Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938–1940 is the second volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context." This volume brings together in an accessible historical narrative a broad range of documents—including diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, reports, Jewish identity cards, and personal photographs—from Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe and beyond Europe's borders. The volume skillfully illuminates the daily lives of a diverse range of Jews who suffered under Nazism, their coping strategies, and their efforts to assess the implications for the present and future of the persecution they faced during this period. Volume II begins with Kristallnacht in 1938 and continues through the Jewish flight out of Germany, the onset of World War II, the forced relocation of the Jews of Europe to the East, and the formation of Jewish ghettos, particularly in Poland.</JATS1:p> <JATS1:p>The twelve chapters, divided into four parts, track the trajectory of German expansion and anti-Jewish policies chronologically, attesting to a clear progression of persecution over time and space. At the same time, they reflect the vast differences in the responses of Jewish communities, groups, and individuals within and beyond the Germans' grasp, differences that resulted both from the unevenness of the Reich's policy toward Jews as well as the varied backgrounds, traditions, expectations, and life histories of Jews affected by German policy. This volume raises essential questions, such as: What was the spectrum of Jewish perceptions and actions under Nazi domination? How did Jews affected directly, or others standing on the outside, view the situation? In what ways were Jews able to influence their own fate under persecution? What role did Jewish tradition play in how the present and future were interpreted? The answers inherent in the documents are often varied or inconclusive; nonetheless these sources add considerably to our understanding of the Holocaust.</JATS1:p>

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Frequent coauthors

• Чад Алан Голдберг

  10 shared

• Bill Cronon

  New York University

  9 shared

• Lee Wandel

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  9 shared

• Tamir Moustafa

  Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de Sciences Po

  9 shared

• Jon Ivry

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  9 shared

• Leo Greenbaum

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  9 shared

• Elaine Marks

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  9 shared

• Rachel Brenner

  University of Utah

  9 shared

Labs

• Aron Rodrigue LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Jewish Studies

  Stanford University

  2005

• M.A., Jewish Studies

  Stanford University

  2000

• B.A., Jewish Studies

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1998