Contributors to this Issue
- Contributors to this Issue
Ruti Feuchtwanger is a Ph.D. student in the Gender studies Program at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Her research is on the experience of modern Orthodox women who teach Talmud. ruti.fe@gmail.com.
Eva Fogelman is a psychologist in private practice in New York City. She is co-director, at the Training Institute for Mental Health, of Psychotherapy with Generations of the Holocaust and Related Traumas, and of Child Development Research. Her book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. Her award-winning films include Breaking the Silence: The Generation After the Holocaust (PBS) and the Academy Award Nominee Liberators: Fighting World War II on Two Fronts. Dr. Fogelman is a pioneer in the Jewish Feminist Movement, was a member of Ezrat Nashim and is co-chair of the Counseling Center for Women in Israel. She is Founding Director of the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers, A.D.L. (currently Jewish Foundation for the Righteous), an advisor to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a frequent guest lecturer. EvaFogelman@aol.com.
Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui is Professor of Political Sociology at the College of Management–Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion, where she also heads the M.A. Program in Family Studies. She received her Ph.D. in 1981 from Paris X–Nanterre University and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her most recent publication is the edited volume Old Dreams, New Horizons: Kibbutz Women Revisited (Hebrew; Yad Tabenkin–Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2009). Her book Democracy and Feminism: Gender, Citizenship and Human Rights is forthcoming in 2010. Direct correspondence to: sylvieb@colman.ac.il.
Marla Frankel heads the Bible Department at David Yellin Teachers College in Jerusalem. She is the author of Toratah shel Nehama Leibowitz: Darkah belimud hatanakh vehorato (Teaching the Bible: The Philosophy of Nehama Leibowitz; Yedioth Ahronoth, 2007). prenkelda@bezeqint.net.
Farideh Dayanim Goldin is the author of Wedding Song: Memoirs of an Iranian Jewish Woman. She studied English literature at Pahlavi University in Shiraz and later transferred to Old Dominion University, where she received [End Page 261] her graduate degrees in Humanities, Women's Studies and Creative Writing. She teaches literature at Old Dominion University and is currently working on a second memoir. FaridehDG@aol.com; www.FaridehGoldin.com.
Faith Jones lives in Vancouver, Canada, where she is a librarian and teaches library science. She serves as Yiddish editor for Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, and her research has appeared in Canadian Jewish Studies, Publishing Research Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and Judaica Librarianship. faithjones@gmail.com.
Melissa R. Klapper is Associate Professor of History at Rowan University, where she teaches American, Jewish, and women's history. She is the author of Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860–1920 (NYU Press, 2005; paperback 2007) and Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in the United States, 1880–1925 (Ivan R. Dee, 2007). She is currently writing a book on American Jewish women in the suffrage, birth control and peace movements before World War II. klapper@rowan.edu.
Rochelle L. Millen is Professor of Religion at Wittenberg University. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, has co-edited two volumes on teaching the Holocaust in universities, and is the author of Women, Birth, and Death in Jewish Law and Practice (Brandeis Series on Jewish Women, 2004). A recipient of the Belkin Memorial Award for Professional Achievement from Stern College, Yeshiva University, she has headed two international conferences, one on teaching the Holocaust and the other on the Dreyfus Affair. rmillen@wittenberg.edu.
Hilda Nissimi is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Bar Ilan University. She has published Rebellion and Tradition in Palestine during the Mandate (Hebrew; Bar Ilan University Press, 1985) and The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: The Shaping of Religious and Communal Identity in their Journey from Iran to New York (Sussex Academic Press, 2007). She is currently interested in crypto-faith communities, especially the Mashhadi Jewish community. nissim@mail.biu.ac.il.
Drora Oren received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Utah, was the recipient of a University of Utah Humanities Fellowship...
