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  • Contributors

Glenda Abramson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is now Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Among her publications are The Writing of Yehuda Amichai (SUNY Press), Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel (Cambridge), and Hebrew Writing of the First World War (Vallentine Mitchell). She is Editor of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (Routledge).

Ari Ariel received his Ph.D. from the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and is now a Dorot Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His work focuses on Jewish communities in the Arab World in the modern period.

I. Izzet Bahar is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, Religious Studies Department. He is the author of Jewish Historiography on the Ottoman Empire and its Jewry from the Late Fifteenth Century to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century (The Isis Press, 2008).

Jeffrey C. Blutinger is the holder of the Barbara and Ray Alpert Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, the Director of the Jewish Studies Program, and Associate Professor in History at California State University, Long Beach. In 2003 he received his Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the author of several articles on Jewish intellectual history and historiography.

Amelia Glaser is an Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at the University of California at San Diego. Her primary focus is on the intersections between Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian literature, and she is currently completing a book about images of market trade in the literature of the Pale of Settlement. She also translates from Russian and Yiddish poetry and prose; she has published an edited volume of Yiddish poetry, Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). [End Page vii]

Jonathan Krasner is Assistant Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. His forthcoming book, The "Benderly Boys" and the Making of American Jewish Education, will be published in March 2011 by Brandeis University Press.

Arlene Lazarowitz is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of, most recently, "Different Approaches to a Regional Search for Balance: The Johnson Administration, the State Department, and the Middle East, 1964-1967," Diplomatic History (January 2008) and "A Southern Senator and Israel: Senator J. William Fulbright's Accusations of Undue Influence over American Foreign Policy in the Middle East," Journal of Southern Jewish History (forthcoming, Fall 2010).

Joellyn Wallen Zollman holds a Ph.D. in Jewish history from Brandeis University. Her dissertation, completed in 2002, is a history of American synagogue gift shops. This topic incorporates two of her areas of specialization, Jewish art and Jewish history. Professionally, Dr. Zollman has worked with the Jewish material culture collections at the Smithsonian Institution, the Skirball Museum, and the American Jewish Historical Society. She is a frequent lecturer in the History Department at San Diego State University, where she has taught Modern Jewish History and American Jewish History. She recently developed and taught a course at the University of California at San Diego in art, religion and material culture. [End Page viii]

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