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Norman Arthur Stillman, also Noam (נועם, in Hebrew), b. 1945, is the Schusterman-Josey Professor and
Chair of
Judaic History at the
University of Oklahoma. He specializes on the intersection of
Jewish and
Islamic culture and history, and on
Oriental and
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.
Biography
Stillman studied at the
University of Pennsylvania, receiving the
B.A. (
magna cum laude) in 1967 and
Ph.D. in
Oriental Studies in 1970,
Shelomo Dov Goitein being his thesis advisor. He was a post-doctoral
fellow at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has received numerous academic honors, among them the
Phi Beta Kappa, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the SUNY-Binghamton award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He delivered the Momigliano Lectures for the
University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and the Sherman Lectures for the
School of Oriental and African Studies at the
University of London. He was Lady Davis Fellow at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1994-1995 and visiting fellow at the
Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at
Tel-Aviv University. He received the
Ohio State University Melton Center's Distinguished Humanist award in 2000 and was a visiting scholar at l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales in
Paris in 2001-2002.
Stillman was married to the late
Yedida Kalfon Stillman, Professor of
Near Eastern History and Languages, also at the University of Oklahoma, with whom he worked closely.
Research and activities
Stillman's current research projects are the Jewish Society and Community in North Africa in the Modern Period and Jewish and Islamic Languages as cultural phenomena. His research has included work on modern
folk medicine,
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. 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.
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