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  • Contributors

Hilda Nissimi is senior lecturer of modern history at Bar-Ilan University. She has published Rebellion and Tradition in Palestine during the Mandate (1985) and The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: The Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York (2007). She is currently continuing her work on crypto-faith communities, especially the Mashhadi Jewish community.

Rachel Rojanski is senior lecturer in Jewish history at the University of Haifa. She is the author of Conflicting Identities: Poalei-Zion in North America, 1905–1931 (2004, in Hebrew). Her current research, on which she has already published a number of articles, focuses on the development of Yiddish culture in Israel and on Yiddish in the United States after the Holocaust.

Zohar Segev is senior lecturer in Jewish history at the University of Haifa, where he teaches courses on American Jewish and Zionist history. He is the author of From Ethnic Politicians to National Leaders: American Zionist Leadership, the Holocaust and the Establishment of Israel (2007, in Hebrew) and co-editor, with Danny Ben-Moshe, of Israel, the Diaspora and Jewish Identity (2007) .

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Judith Baumel-Schwartz is Chair of the Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. Her most recent book, published as Judith Tydor Baumel, is The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy, translated from the Hebrew by Dena Ordan (2005).

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. His most recent book is a history of modern Jewish historiography, Propheten der Vergangenheit: Juedische Geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2006).

Anne M. Butler is Trustee Professor of History, Emeritus, at Utah State University and a past editor of the Western Historical Quarterly. She has published extensively on women in the American West, especially Roman Catholic sisters.

John Ehrman is an independent historian specializing in modern American conservatism and neoconservatism. He is the author of The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945–1994 (1996), The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005), and numerous essays and reviews on neoconservative politics.

Seth Forman is Research Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, author of Blacks in the Jewish Mind (1998), and editor of the Long Island Historical Journal. [End Page iv]

Saul S. Friedman is Professor Emeritus of History at Youngstown State University. His most recent publications are A History of the Holocaust (2004) and A History of the Middle East (2006).

Amy Holberg was most recently an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Catholic University of America and is currently a Visiting Colleague in American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her article "Betty Boop: Yiddish Film Star" appeared in American Jewish History.

Allan J. Lichtman is Professor of History at American University and author of The Keys to the White House (rev. ed., 2000). His new book White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement will be published in 2008.

Caroline Rody is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at the University of Virginia, where she teaches ethnic American literatures. Author of The Daughter's Return: African American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History (2001), she is completing a manuscript entitled "The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in the Contemporary Asian American Novel."

Esther Romeyn is Assistant Scholar in the Center of Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida. She is the author of My Other / My Self: Theatricality, Race and Urban Space in New York City, 1890–1920 (forthcoming). [End Page v]

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