Contributors
- Contributors
Peter Atterton is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Diego State University. He has translated several essays by Levinas and publishes in the field of Continental philosophy. With Matthew Calarco and Maurice Friedman, he is editor of Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference (2004).
Matthew Calarco is an assistant professor of philosophy at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. He has published several essays on leading figures in contemporary Continental thought, including Agamben, Derrida, Levinas, and Nancy. With Peter Atterton, he is author of On Levinas (2004) and editor of The Continental Ethics Reader (2003).
Adam S. Ferziger is the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Fellow in Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University, where he serves as a lecturer and associate director of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry and as a senior fellow at the Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research. His first book, Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity, was published in June 2005 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is the editor, together with Aviezer Ravitzky and Yoseph Salmon, of The Study of Orthodoxy: New Perspectives (Heb.), forthcoming from the Magnes Press of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. His most recent book is Fat Boys: Slim Book (2004). He also edited the volume Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (with Zhou Xun [2004]). He previously taught at Cornell and the University of Chicago. He served in 2004–2005 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University.
Joelle Hansel teaches in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of numerous publications on the relation between Kabbalah and philosophy, as well as on Levinas and other contemporary philosophers.
Shai Held teaches at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He also serves as scholar-in-residence at Kehilat Hadar in New York City and is a Jacob Javits Fellow and doctoral candidate in religion at Harvard University.
Eugene Korn is the director of Jewish Affairs at the American Jewish Congress and an adjunct professor of Jewish thought in the Department of Christian–Jewish Studies at Seton Hall University. He recently edited two books, End of an Exile by James Parkes (3rd ed.) and Two Faiths, One Covenant? He has also published numerous scholarly articles on Jewish thought and ethics. [End Page 329]
Ehud Luz is a professor of modern Jewish thought at Haifa University and at the Oranim School of Education. He is the author of Parallels Meet: Religion and Nationalism in Early Zionist Movement (1989) and Wrestling with an Angel: Power, Morality and Modern Jewish Identity (2003). He is also the editor of Leo Strauss’s Jerusalem and Athens, a selection of Strauss’s writings translated into Hebrew (2001), and of the Hebrew translation of Strauss’s Natural Right and History (forthcoming). [End Page 330]
