Contributors
- Contributors
Leora Batnitzky is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000) and Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006). She is also the editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion and currently serves as co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly.
Pierre Birnbaum has taught at the University of Paris I and is now a visiting professor at Columbia University. Among his books published in the United States are The Jews of the Republic (1996), The Idea of France (2001), and The Antisemite Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 (2003). His book Géographie de l'espoir: L'exil, les Lumières, la désassimilation (2004) will be published in English by Stanford University Press.
Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. Among his books are The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (1983), Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990), Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (2000), and, with Grant Wacker and Randall Balmer, Religion in American Life: A Short History (2003).
Sheila Greeve Davaney is the Harvey H. Potthoff Professor of Christian Theology at Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado. Her recent books include Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology (2006) and Pragmatic Historicism: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century (2000). Her current research is in historicism, pragmatism, and liberal theology, especially in American Thought, and in the public role of religious discourse and values.
Arnold Eisen is the Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University and the Chancellor-elect of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the author, most recently (with sociologist Steven M. Cohen), of The Jew Within: Self, Family and Culture in America and served as principal organizer of the conference at Stanford in 2004 on which the articles in this volume are based.
Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She holds a Ph.D. from Temple University and [End Page 187] graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College as a rabbi. She is the author of Parenting as a Spiritual Journey (1996, 1998) and, with Nancy Wiener, Judaism for Two (2005).
Steven T. Katz is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. Prior to coming to Boston, he was Professor of Near Eastern Studies (Judaica) at Cornell University. In addition to many scholarly articles and several edited volumes, he is the author of Jewish Philosophers (1975), Jewish Ideas and Concepts (1977), Post-Holocaust Dialogues (1984), Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism (1992), and The Holocaust in Historical Context (vol. 1, 1994; vol. 2, forthcoming).
Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. A historian of American Jews, she focuses on the twentieth-century experience. Her most recent book, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation, appeared in 2004.
Noam Pianko is the Samuel and Althea Stroum Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University in 2004. He is currently working on a book about Jewish immigrant intellectuals and the promise of American democracy.
Riv-Ellen Prell, an anthropologist, is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation (1999) and Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism (1989), the co-editor of Interpreting Women's Lives: Personal Narratives and Feminist Theory (1989), and the editor of the forthcoming Women Remaking American Judaism.
Mel Scult is Professor Emeritus in Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College and a member of the History Faculty at the Graduate School of CUNY. He has contributed to numerous journals and is the author of Judaism Faces...
