Contributors to this Issue
- Contributors to this Issue
Eliyana R. Adler teaches Jewish history at the University of Maryland. She is completing revisions on her forthcoming book on Jewish women’s education in Tsarist Russia. This year the University Press of Maryland published her co-edited volume with Sheila Jelen, Jewish Literature and History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation.
Emebet Akalie arrived in Israel from Ethiopia in 1989. She received her degree in social work seven years ago from the University of Haifa and currently works for the Jerusalem municipal social services department in its Gonen (Katamon) office, specializing in the prevention of family violence among Ethiopian Jews. She is married and has one child.
Judith R. Baskin is Knight Professor of Humanities and Director of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002), and editor of Jewish Women in Historical Perspective (second edition, 1998) and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994).
Chana Bloch, Emerita Professor of English at Mills College, is the author of three books of poems, The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing, and Mrs. Dumpty. She is co-translator of The Song of Songs (Modern Library Classics), The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (University of California Press) and Amichai’s Open Closed Open.
Hagit Cohen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Unit for Culture Research at Tel Aviv University and a lecturer in Modern Jewish History at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Her research deals with the book market and reading culture among east European Jewish immigrants to the United States. She is the author of At The Bookseller’s Store: The Jewish Book Trade in Eastern Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century, (Hebrew; Jerusalem: The Hebrew University/Magnes Press, 2006).
Ellen Frank holds a Ph.D in literature and visual arts from Stanford and Yale universities. Her creative writing has been published in Pequod and White Walls. She has received numerous awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant in Lithography, a Pollock-Krasner Award in Painting; [End Page 270] a New York Foundation of the Arts Award, and four New York State Council on the Arts awards. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States. She was invited to inaugurate “T” at the Soho Guggenheim with a sequence of 18 paintings; and in 1999 she received a commission from J/Brice of Boston to create an 84-foot mural in gold, copper and silver leaf on linen.
Paula E. Hyman is Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. Her most recent book is Jewish Women: An Historical Encyclopedia, co-edited with Dalia Ofer. She is preparing an anthology on Jewish women’s experience in the modern period and a work on Zionism for the series Keywords in Jewish Studies.
Sheila Jelen is Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse, 2007). She is currently co-editing a volume entitled “Intersections and Boundaries: Modern Jewish Literatures” and is an associate editor at Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. Her most recent work in progress is entitled “The Shtetl: An Ethnopoetics.”
Hannah Kehat, founder and first chairwoman of Kolech: The Religious Women’s Forum, received her doctorate in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lectures on education and Jewish Studies at various institutions and has established programs of study at Orot Israel College of Education and the Efrata College of Education. She has published many scholarly and popular articles, as well as the book Mishnat Hanatziv. She received a Presidential Award for Volunteer Work in 2004 and an award from the Israel Women’s Network in 2005. She is actively involved in feminist initiatives in Israel.
Chana Kronfeld, Professor of Hebrew, Yiddish and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of On the Margins of Modernism (University of California Press). She is co-translator of Yehuda Amichai’s Open Closed Open (Harcourt), which was awarded...
