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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 25.2 (2007) ix-x

Contributors to This Volume

Menachem Feuer is an assistant professor at D'Youville College. He has also taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Ryerson University. He has published essays in The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Response, and Ctheory, published in book collections on Holocaust literature, and has essays and chapters forthcoming in CinemAction, International Studies in Philosophy, and Purdue University Press's monograph series in comparative-cultural studies. He is currently working on a book on the Schlemiel and Jewish Camp.

Solomon Gartenhaus received the Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Illinois in 1955 and then was an instructor at Stanford University for three years. He subsequently went to Purdue University where he is currently Professor of Physics. He is the author or co-author of over thirty research papers and the author of two books.

Klaus Hödl is the head of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, editor of the journal transversal, and author of many articles and several books; the most recent among them is Wiener Juden—Jüdische Wiener: Identität, Gedächtnis und Performanz im 19. Jahrhundert (Innsbruck, 2006).

Steven G. Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His recent books include Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (W. W. Norton, 2005), Switching Languages: Translingual Authors Reflect on Their Craft (University of Nebraska, 2003), and The Translingual Imagination (University of Nebraska, 2000).

Saul Lerner received the Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas. He is Head of the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet. [End Page ix]

Kathryn McClymond is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. McClymond is a comparative historian of religions, working primarily in Hindu and Jewish traditions. Her work focuses on ritual, and her most recent work, Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice, will be published with Johns Hopkins University Press in 2007.

Carol Salus is associate professor in the division of art history at Kent State University. She is co-editor of the anthology Out of Context: American Artists Abroad (Greenwood Press, 2004). Her writings appear in National American Biography, Art Bulletin, Jewish Art, PrintmakingToday, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Schtazkammer der Deutschen Sprache, Dichtung, und Geschichte, Analecta Husserliana, and others. She has twice been an invited speaker at the American Institute of Medical Education. Her topics have been "The Effects of Aging on Picasso's Last Years and His Art" (1997) and "Picasso, His Father and His Pigeons, A Transitional Object" (2001). She has been a speaker at Hebrew University (2006). She received her doctorate from The Ohio State University.

Arnold Tubis received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from MIT, was a member of the faculty of Purdue University from 1960 to 2000 (nine years as a department head), and is the author or co-author of over one hundred research papers. He now lives in Carlsbad, CA, is a Visiting Fellow at University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, CA, and is a consultant in auditory biophysics and in mathematics education.

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