Lebenslauf
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Daniel Tsadik
Updated: January 2013
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Permanent address: 475 West 186 St. Apt. 2D. New York, NY 10033, USA.
Tel.: +917-736-5586.
E-mail address: daniel.tsadik@aya.yale.edu, tsadikim@
2. HIGHER EDUCATION
(in chronological order)
1992-1994: The Hebrew University: B.A: summa cum laude, 1994.
Departments: 1) Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. 2) Jewish Thought.
1995-1996: The Hebrew University: M.A studies: an individually designed program.
1996-1998: Yale University: M.A: History Department, 1998.
1998-2002: Yale University: PhD: History Department, 2002.
2002/3: Tel-Aviv University: Post-Doctorate: Dayan Center for the research of Islam
and the Middle East.
2003/4: The Hebrew University: Post-Doctorate: The Golda Meir Fellowship Trust.
2004: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study: Working group modernity and Islam.
2005/6: The Hebrew University: Post-Doctorate: The Warburg Fellowship of the Institute for Judaic Studies.
2007:University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies: Working group Jews and Muslims.
3. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
(in chronological order)
1995/6:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
2001:
Teacher at Yale University.
2002/3:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
Adjunct Professor at Tel-Aviv University.
2003/4:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
2004/5:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
Coordinator of the Summer Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University.
2005/6:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
Coordinator of the Summer Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University.
2006/7:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
Coordinator of the Summer Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University.
2007/8:
Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University.
Coordinator of the Summer Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, Rothberg International School, Hebrew University.
Adjunct Professor at Tel-Aviv University.
2008/9-2011:
Assistant Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies at the Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University.
Visiting Assistant Professor, The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University (YIISA).
2011/2-Present:
Assistant Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies at the Revel Graduate School for Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).
4. MEMBERSHIP IN A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
1) Association for Jewish Studies (AJS).
2) Ha-Hevra Ha-historit ha-Israelit, החברה ההיסטורית הישראלית.
3) International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS).
4) International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS).
5. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Yale University, 2002: “Foreign Intervention, Majority, and Minority: The Status of the Jews during the Latter Part of Nineteenth Century Iran (1848-1896).”
BOOKS
1) Between Foreigners and Shi‘is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
The book is being translated to Persian.
To date, the book has been reviewed by:
1) Norman Stillman (blurb).
2) Abbas Amanat (blurb).
3) Nikki Keddie (blurb).
4) Vera Moreen (blurb).
5) Michael Rubin. Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2008.
6) L. D. Loeb, Choice, October 2008.
7) Shaul Stampfer, Religious Studies Review, 34, number 4, December 2008, 313.
8) Houman Sarshar, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 26 (2009), 119-121.
9) Moojan Momen, Bahai Studies Review, 15 (2009), 171-174.
10) Meir Litvak, Middle Eastern Studies, 45 (2009), 847-849.
11) Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 104 (2009), 550-556.
12) Jean Calmard, Studia Iranica, 38 (2009), 313-316.
13) Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Iranian Studies, 43 (2010), 443-446.
14) Eliz Sanasarian, Journal of the American Oriental Society, April-June 2010
15) Lior Sternfeld, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and & Social Sciences, May 2012.
16) Norman Stillman, Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History; Studies in Contemporary Judaism, 26 (2012), 349-351.
Part of the above reviews and blurbs can be viewed at:
2) Chapters in the Literature of the Jews of Iran, forthcoming (Hebrew).
2) Editing the book Iranians and Jews; Aspects of Symbiosis and Conflict.
I have a contract for this book with Brill publishers.
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS
(in chronological order)
1) “The Jews in the Local Economy,” in: Saadoun, H (Ed.) Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Iran (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2005), 41-54 (Hebrew).
2) “Identity among the Jews of Iran,” in: Amanat, A and Vejdani, F (Eds.), Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 219-242.
3) “A Jewish Child’s Visions at the Service of Iranian Shi‘i Anti-Jewish Polemicists in the Eighteenth Century,” in: Regev, S (Ed.), Bar-Ilan University, forthcoming.
ARTICLES
(in chronological order)
1) “The Legal Status of Religious Minorities: Imami Shi‘i Law and Iran’s Constitutional Revolution,” Islamic Law and Society 10, 3 (2003), 376-408.
2) “Nineteenth Century Shi‘i Anti-Christian Polemics and the Jewish Aramaic Nevuat ha-Yeled [The Prophecy of the Child],” Iranian Studies 37 (2004), 5-15.
3) “Religious Disputations of Imami Shi‘is against Judaism in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Studia Iranica, 34 (2005), 95-134.
4) “Nineteenth Century Iranian Jewry: Statistics, Geographical Setting, and Economic Basis,” Iran, XLIII (2005), 275-282.
5) “Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran: V: Qajar period: Communities,” Encyclopedia Iranica, XV (2009), 108-117.
6) “Polemics between Shi‘ites and Jews,” Encyclopedia Iranica, web edition. Also in: Sarshar, H (Ed.) Jewish Communities of Iran (New York: Encycopaedia Iranica, 2011), 378-382.
7) “Jews in the Pre-Constitutional Years: The Shiraz Incident of 1905,” Iranian Studies, 43 (2010), 239-263.
8) “Protector of Jews,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
9) “Great Famine,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
10) “Iqamat al-Shuhud fi Radd al-Yahud,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
11) “Levi, Habib,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
12) “Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
13) “Mahdar al-Shuhud fi Radd al-Yahud,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
14) “Mamalik al-Imam,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
15) “Najasat,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
16) “Mujtahid,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
17) “Qum,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
18) “Nevuat ha-Yeled,” Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World.
19) “Jews of Iran and Rabbinical Literature: Preliminary Notes,” AJS Perspectives, Fall 2010, 14-16.
6. RESEARCH GRANTS
[Add here my other grants from the Hebrew U]
1994/5: The Hebrew University Rector’s Scholarships for distinguished graduate (M.A) students.
1995/6: The Hebrew University Rector’s Scholarships for distinguished graduate (M.A) students.
1996/7: Fulbright.
1997/8: Fulbright.
1999/2000-2001/2: The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York.
2002/3: The Magbit Foundation, Los Angeles.
2002/3: The Iranian Jewish Cultural Organization of California.
2002/3: The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Hebrew University.
2002/3: “Misgav Yerushalayim” (The Center for the Research of the Heritage of the Sepharadi and Eastern Jewry), Hebrew University.
2002/3-2003/4: The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York.
2004: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study: Working group modernity and Islam.
2004/5: The Dr. H. Kermanshachi Grant, Los Angeles.
2007: University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies: Working group Jews and Muslims.
7. ACADEMIC TEACHING
Courses Taught
My courses dealt with variations of the following four major fields, covering medieval, early modern, and modern times: Jews under Islam; Jews of Iran; the Middle East—mainly Iran; Islam—mainly Shi‘i Islam.
Titles of courses taught:
1) Jews and Judaism from the Rise of Islam to the Mamluk Period.
2) Jews and Judaism from the 16th to the Early 19th Century.
3) Jews and Judaism from the mid 19th to the mid-20th Century.
4) Islam and Religious Minorities.
5) Muslim-Jewish Polemics.
6) Jews of Iran.
7) Jews under Shi‘i Islam.
8) Iranian Jewish Literature.
9) Reading Shi‘i polemics against Judaism and Jews.
10) Chapters in the History of the Middle East.
11) Iran: Shi‘i Islam, politics, and society.
12) Chapters in the Theology and History of Imami Shi‘i Islam.
13) Reading Persian texts (Ayatallah R. Khumayni’s Wilayat-e Faqih).
14) Reading modern Arabic texts on Jews and Judaism.
15) Methodological Tutorial.
In 2006/7 I was listed among the best junior and adjunct teachers in the Humanities faculty at the Hebrew University.
8. CONFERENCES
(in chronological order)
*Attending the International Society for Iranian Studies biennial conference, Bethesda, 1998.
*Lecturing at Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, May 23, 2003.
*Lecturing in honor of Prof. Amnon Netzer’s retirement, Hebrew University, April 9, 2003.
*Lecturing at the international conference “Nuclear Iran,” J. Shasha Institute, Hebrew University, May 31, 2005.
*Member of the academic committee of the international conference “Iranian Jewry,” Bar-Ilan University, June 15-16, 2005.
*Lecturing at the international conference “Iranian Jewry,” Bar-Ilan University, June 15-16, 2005.
*Lecturing at The Meir and Miriam Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf Studies, international colloquium, Haifa University, May 23, 2006.
*Lecturing at the conference on Shiraz Jews, Bar-Ilan University, June 28, 2006.
*Lecturing at the international conference on Iran’s constitutional revolution, Oxford University, July 29-August 1, 2006.
* Attending the International Society for Iranian Studies biennial conference, London, August 3-5, 2006.
*Lecturing at The Meir and Miriam Ezri Center for Iran & Gulf Studies, Haifa University, April 1, 2008.
*Organizing an international conference on the Jews of Iran, Tel-Aviv University, Habib Levi Center for Iranian Studies, June 4, 2008.
*Lecturing at the international conference on the Jews of Iran, Tel-Aviv University, Habib Levi Center for Iranian Studies, June 4, 2008.
*Discussant at the international workshop “Entrepreneurship and Culture: Greek, Muslim, and Baha’i Entrepreneurs in Comparative Perspective,” The Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Haifa University, June 5-6, 2008.
*Lecturing at the international Society for Iranian Studies biennial conference, Toronto, July 31-August 3, 2008.
*Lecturing at the international conference on Iranian Jewry, University of Maryland, November 1-November 3, 2008.
*Lecturing at the international conference on Jews with hidden identities, Ben Zvi Institute, June 17, 2009.
*Lecturing at the Association for Jewish Studies conference, Los Angeles, December 21-22, 2009.
*Lecturing at the international conference “Muslims and Jews Together,” University of California at Berkeley, April 28-20, 2010.
*Lecturing at the Shi‘ah conference, Tel Aviv University, June 2-3, 2010.
* Lecturing at the conference “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity,” Yale University, August 23, 2010-August 25, 2010.
* Lecturing at the conference “Civic Action Conference,” 30 Years After, NYU Kimmel Center, October 10, 2010.
* Co-Organizing an international conference on “Israel and Iran,” Yeshiva University, October 31, 2010.
* Lecturing at the international conference on “Israel and Iran,” Yeshiva University, October 31, 2010.
* I was invited to the Oxford Round Table, March 27, 2011-April 1.
* Lecturing at the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, November 17, 2010.
* Lecturing at The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, February 10, 2011.
* Member of the International Academic Committee of the Beit Hatfutsot, The Museum of the Jewish People’s exhibition “Light and Shadows; The Story of Iran and the Jews;” 2010.
* Lecturing at the conference “From Ancient Persia to Contemporary LA: 2,700 Years of Iranian Jewish History,” Fowler Museum at UCLA, January 27, 2013.
* Lecturing at the Orthodox Forum, March 3-4, 2013, Yeshiva University.
9. OTHER ACTIVITY
(in chronological order)
*Organizing a Persian music evening, Hebrew University, January 1, 2003.
* Member in the Jewish languages’ project, the Institute of Judaic Studies, Hebrew University, 2002/3.
*Member of the academic committee of the international conference “Iranian Jewry,” Bar-Ilan University, June 15-16, 2005.
*Lecturing four lectures on “Iranian Jewry,” Dahan Center, Bar-Ilan University, January 2006.
*Lecturing at Yeshiva University, February 21, 2007.
*Lecturing at Columbia University, Iran seminar, March 6, 2007.
*Lecturing at Yale University, Iran seminar, April 20, 2007.
*Lecturing at the evening commemorating the publication of my book, Hebrew University, Beit Meirsdorff, March 19, 2008.
*Organizing an international conference on the Jews of Iran, Tel-Aviv University, Habib Levi Center for Iranian Studies, June 4, 2008.
*Lecturing at the First Annual Amnon Netzer Memorial, Nessah Israel Educational & Cultural Center, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, February 5-8, 2009.
*Lecturing at congregation “Etz Ahaim,” High Land Park, New Jersey, February 28, 2009.
* Lecturing at the City University of New York, March 4, 2009.
*Lecturing at congregation “Adereth El,” Manhattan, March 7, 2009.
*Lecturing at Mashhadi synagogues, Great Neck, New York, March 20-21, 2009.
*Lecturing at congregation “Beth Haddasa,” Great Neck, New York, April 26, 2009.
* Lecturing at congregation “Bais Yehuda,” Monsey, October 24, 2009.
* Lecturing at Queens College, October 28, 2009.
* Lecturing at “92nd Street Y,” Manhattan, May 11, 2010.
* Lecturing at Torah Academy of Bergen County, Teaneck, New Jersey, February 9, 2011.
* Lecturing at The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal, Canada, March 4-5, 2011.
* Lecturing at Tiferes Beth David Jerusalem (TBDJ) Synagogue, Montreal, Canada, March 5, 2011.
* Lecturing at the JCC, Manhattan, November 1, 2011.
* Lecturing 6 lectures at the JCC, Manhattan, January 10, 2012-February 21, 2012.
* Member of the planning team of the Yeshiva University Museum’s exhibition Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue.
10. MEDIA CITATIONS
(in chronological order)
The Jewish week, January 29, 2010:
CNN, February 10, 2010:
Ms. Magazine, February 19, 2010:
CBS 2News at 5:00, October 26, 2010. Television interview.
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