Contributors
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Jonathan B. Krasner is associate professor of the American Jewish experience at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. His research focuses on twentieth-century American Jewish culture, youth and identity, and the history of American Jewish education. He is the author of The Benderly Boys & American Jewish Education (2011). His current projects include an exploration of the term “Tikkun Olam” and its Americanzation, as well as a study of homosexuality and the American rabbinate.
Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She specializes in twentieth century American Jewish history and is the author and editor of ten books. Most recently she edited, with Marion Kaplan, Gender and Jewish History (2010) and she served as general editor for the forthcoming three-volume history of Jews of New York, City of Promises (2012).
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Dianne Ashton is professor of religion at Rowan University. Her most recent book is the revised edition of Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality (2008).
Steven Alan Carr is graduate program director and associate professor of communication at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) and codirector of the IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His first book was Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II (2001). His current, award-winning project explores the response of the American film industry to the growing public awareness of the Holocaust.
Susan Chevlowe is adjunct assistant professor in the Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminary, and director of the Derfner Judaica Museum. Most recently she has organized the exhibitions Sacred Presence/Painterly Process—Jill Nathanson’s “Seeing Sinai” and “New Translations: Genesis” (2010) and Tradition and Remembrance: Treasures of the Derfner Judaica Museum (2009).
Marcie Cohen Ferris is associate professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her publications include Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (2005) and an anthology, Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History, coedited with Mark Greenberg (2006). [End Page iv]
Michael Galchinsky is professor of English at Georgia State University and an educational consultant to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. His most recent book is Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings (2007).
Leslie Ginsparg Klein is assistant professor of history and education at Touro College. She completed her doctoral dissertation, an historical study of Orthodox girls’ education in America in the 1960s–1980s, at New York University in 2009.
Eric Silverman is a cultural anthropologist in the American Studies and Human Development departments at Wheelock College. His latest books are From Abraham to America: A History of Jewish Circumcision (2006) and the forthcoming A Cultural History of Jewish Dress.
Bryan Edward Stone is associate professor of history at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, and has been a visiting professor of Jewish studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers. [End Page v]
