Aryeh Lev Stollman

Aryeh Lev Stollman (born 1954) is a writer and physician based in the United States. A neuroradiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City,

Early life Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Windsor, Ontario, where his father was an Orthodox rabbi Stollman studied at Yeshiva University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

His second novel, The Illuminated Soul (Riverhead), was published in 2002 and won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish literature from Hadassah Magazine, and his short story collection The Dialogues of Time and Entropy (Riverhead) was published in 2003.

His story "Lotte Returns!" was commissioned by National Public Radio and broadcast in 2008 and again in 2025.

His third novel, Queen of Jerusalem, was published in 2020 by Aryeh Nir/Modan in Hebrew translation.

Stollman wrote the libretto for Tobias Picker's Awakenings, based on Oliver Sacks' 1973 chronicle of his efforts to help the victims of the encephalitis lethargica epidemic, which premiered at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, conducted by Roberto Kalb and directed by James Robinson. The East Coast premiere of Awakenings was performed by Odyssey Opera in partnership with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conducted by Gil Rose and directed by James Robinson, on February 25, 2023, at the newly renovated Huntington Theater.

He has also written the libretto for Lili Elbe, an opera composed by Tobias Picker, commissioned by Theater St. Gallen, which premiered October 22, 2023 in Saint Gallen, Switzerland starring Heldenbaritonistin Lucia Lucas. Lili Elbe was named Best World Premiere at the 2024 Oper! Awards at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. Lili Elbe will have its American Premiere at Santa Fe Opera in August 2026.

Private life He is the husband of composer Tobias Picker.

Works The Far Euphrates (1997, ) The Illuminated Soul (2002, ) The Dialogues of Time and Entropy (2003, )