Contributors to This Issue

Contributors to This Issue

Wendy H. Bergoffen teaches in the English Department and Women's Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Amy Feinstein is an assistant professor in the English Department at Colgate University in upstate New York. She is presently completing a book manuscript on Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism. Her edition with critical introduction of an essay by Gertrude Stein on modern Jewish identity appeared in PMLA (2001) and she has also published articles on the Jewish modernism of Mina Loy and James Joyce.

Sylvia Barack Fishman is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life at Brandeis University and Co-Director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. Her newest book, The Way Into Varieties of Jewishness, was released by Jewish Lights Publishing in November 2006.

David C. Jacobson is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Modern Midrash: The Retelling of Traditional Jewish Narratives by Twentieth-Century Hebrew Writers (State University of New York Press, 1987); Does David Still Play Before You? Israeli Poetry and the Bible (Wayne State University Press, 1997); and Creator, Are You Listening? Israeli Poets on God and Prayer (Indiana University Press, 2007). He is co-editor (with Kamal Abdel-Malek) of Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature (St. Martin's Press, 1999) and (with William Cutter) of History and Literature: New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band (Brown Judaic Studies, 2002). He is currently Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown and Co-Editor of the Brown Judaic Studies Monograph Series.

David Mandler holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University and is a resource center coordinator and adjunct professor of English at Touro College. He is currently preparing his first book manuscript for publication entitled Arminius Vambéry, the Eastern (Bro)Other in Victorian Politics and Culture: Hungarian Jewish Orientalism and the Invention of Identities.

Helene Meyers is Professor of English and former chair of Women's Studies at Southwestern University. She is the author of Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience (SUNY, 2001); her current book project is a study of Jewish identity in contemporary literature and film.

Avinoam Rosenak has been a lecturer in the Hebrew University in the Department of Jewish Thought since 1995 and is a research fellow in the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. He obtained his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books on the philosophy of halakhah (Jewish Law) will be published by Magnes Press (Jerusalem) and are entitled: The Prophetic Halakhah (forthcoming, 2007) and Halakhah, Philosophy and Educational Sensitivity: New Streams in Philosophy of Halakhah (forthcoming, 2008). His book Rabbi A. I. H Kook was published by Zalman Shazar Publication (Jerusalem, 2006). E-mail: rosnak@mscc.huji.ac.il.

Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg is Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Colgate University. Her research and teaching treat the literature and literary afterlife of the Hebrew Bible. She is co-editor, with Peter S. Hawkins, of Scrolls of Love: Reading Ruth and the Song of Songs (Fordham University Press).