Norman Stillman

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Norman Stillman, Bar-Ilan University

Norman Arthur Stillman, also Noam (נועם, in Hebrew; born 1945), is an American

Sephardi Jewry, with special interest in the Jewish communities in North Africa. His major publications are The Jews of Arab Lands: a History And Source Book and Sephardi Religious Responses to Modernity. In the last few years, Stillman has been the executive editor of the "Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World",[1]
a project that includes over 2000 entries in 5 volumes.

Biography

Stillman studied at the

Tel-Aviv University. He received the Ohio State University Melton Center's Distinguished Humanist award in 2000 and was a visiting scholar at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris in 2001-2002.[2] Stillman also appears in the 2005 film, The Hebrew Project.[3]
Stillman is the Chair of the Academic Committee of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).

Stillman was married to the late Yedida Kalfon Stillman [Wikidata], Professor of Near Eastern History and Languages, also at the University of Oklahoma, with whom he worked closely. He is the father to two children (a daughter and a son) and the grandfather of five.

Research and activities

Stillman's current[

magic, and medieval pharmacology, which have been published in "The Language and Culture of the Jews of Sefrou", as well as in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages.[4] He was editor of the journal of the Association for Jewish Studies from 1989-1999. Stillman teaches courses in Medieval Jewish History, Jewish Historiography, and the History of Judaism.[2] In 2005, he held the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Committee annual public lecture of the Center for Arts and Humanities, University of Missouri.[5]

Publications

Notes

  1. ^ [1], online: Beginning of an article free, elsewise with costs
  2. ^ a b Staff and Students Archived 2006-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Oklahoma
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  4. ^ Department Affiliates and Associates Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, University of Oklahoma
  5. ^ Grants Awarded in 2004-2005 Archived 2006-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, Center for Arts and Humanities University of Missouri

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