Eliyahu Stern is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History in the Departments of Religious Studies and History at Yale University. Previously, he was Junior William Golding Fellow in the Humanities at Brasenose College and the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. He is the author of two award-winning books, The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism (Yale University Press in 2012) and most recently, Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s (Yale University Press, 2018).