Contributors
- Contributors
Miriam Bodian is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin (bodian@mail.utexas.edu). She is the author of Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (1997) and Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in Iberian Lands (2007), as well as a number of articles in major journals.
Olga Borovaya received her Ph.D. from the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). Since 1998, she has been doing research and teaching at Stanford (bolga@stanford.edu) and other U.S. universities, focusing on Ladino print culture in the late Ottoman period. She is the author of articles on this subject in English and Russian and a book in Russian on the belles lettres and theater of Sephardi Jews in the Ottoman Empire (Moscow, 2005).
Harvey E. Goldberg is Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in Sociology and Anthropology, Emeritus, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (msharvey@mscc.huji.ac.il). His books include Jewish Life in Muslim Libya: Rivals and Relatives (1990), Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries (edited, 1996), The Life of Judaism (edited, 2001), and Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life (2003).
David Graizbord is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Arizona (dlgraizb@email.arizona.edu). He is the author of Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora (2004) and has published articles on Sephardi culture, Conversos, and Iberian Judeo-phobia in such journals as Jewish History, Sixteenth Century Studies, and Journal of Social History.
Matthias B. Lehmann is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington (mlehmann@indiana.edu). A specialist in modern Sephardi history, he is the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (2005). He is currently working on a book-length study of networks of philanthropy in support of the Jewish communities in Palestine in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Together with Harvey Goldberg, he is co-editor of the Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. [End Page 193]
Frances Malino is the Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Wellesley College and Chair of the Jewish Studies Program (fmalino@wellesley.edu). She is the author of The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1978) and A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Zalkind Hourwitz (1996) and co-editor of Essays in Modern Jewish History: A Tribute to Ben Halpern (1982), The Jews in Modern France (1985), Profiles in Diversity: Jews in a Changing Europe (1998), and Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in the New Europe (2005).
Jonathan Ray is the Samuel Eig Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University (jsr46@georgetown.edu). He is the author of The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia (2006) and is currently working on a history of the Sephardi diaspora in the sixteenth century.
Daniel J. Schroeter is the Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota (schro800@umn.edu). His most recent book is The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World (2002), and he is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa. He is an editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World and is working on a new book on Moroccan Jewries in the modern era.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA (sstein@history.ucla.edu). She is the author of Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost History of Global Commerce (2008) and Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (2004). [End Page 194]
