Contributors/Reviewers
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Contributors
Carole Fink is Distinguished Humanities Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and is a specialist in European international history and historiography. Her books include Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878–1938 (2004), which was awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in European international history; Marc Bloch: A Life in History (1989); and The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921–1922 (1984, 1993). She is currently writing a book on West German–Israeli relations between 1966 and 1974.
Mark A. Raider is professor of modern Jewish history at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses on modern Jewish history, the American Jewish experience, and Zionism and Israel, and Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He is author of The Emergence of American Zionism (1998) and editor of Nahum Goldmann: Statesman without a State (forthcoming, 2009). He is also co-editor of Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism (1997), The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine (2002), and American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise (2004). He is currently working on a new biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise.
Robert S. Rifkind is senior counsel with the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he was a partner from 1971 to 2001. He is a member of the board of governors and former president (1994–1998) of the American Jewish Committee and serves on the boards of trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Brandeis University, the Center for Jewish History, and the Leo Baeck Institute.
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, where he also directs the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program. He chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati and is chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Author or editor of more than twenty books on American Jewish history and life, his most recent book is A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew (2008). His American Judaism: A History won the Jewish Book Council’s Jewish Book of the Year Award in 2004.
Matthew Silver chairs the General Studies Department at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel. He received his MA and Ph.D. degrees in modern Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications focus on Zionism, American Jewish history, and Jewish thought. He is the author of First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection (2006), and of a forthcoming study titled Leon Uris and the Making and Unmaking of Exodus. [End Page v]
Reviewers
Nathan Abrams, director of film studies at Bangor University in the United Kingdom, is author of Commentary Magazine, 1945–1959: ‘A Journal of Significant Thought and Opinion’ (2006) and editor of Jews & Sex (2008).
Kimmy Caplan teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of The Internal Popular Discourse in Israeli Haredi Society (in Hebrew, 2007) and co-editor, with Nurit Stadler, of Leadership and Authority in Israeli Haredi Society (in Hebrew, 2008).
Holly Folk is assistant professor in liberal studies at Western Washington University, where she teaches courses in American religious history.
Paula E. Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. She is working on a book on Zionism to be published in the Key Words in Jewish Studies series of Rutgers University Press.
Ronit Irshai (Naamat), a faculty member of the Gender Studies Program at Bar-Ilan University, is also affiliated with Hebrew University’s Melton Center for Jewish Education. Her book, The Maleness of Halakhah (Jewish Law): Feminist Perspectives on Modern Responsa Literature: Contraception, Abortion, and New Reproductive Technologies, will be published by Magnes Press.
Anna D. Jaroszynska-Kirchmann is professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic. She is the author of The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956 (2004). She is currently President...
