Contributors
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Michael Scott Alexander is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Jazz Age Jews (2001), which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award. He is currently working on Golda & Henry: Jews, Power, and the Path to the Yom Kippur War.
Gennady Estraikh is Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at the NYU’s Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. In 1988–91 he worked as Managing Editor of the Moscow Yiddish journal Sovetish Heymland. Later he moved to England, where he studied and worked at the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies and the School of Oriental and African Studies. His most recent monograph is Yiddish in the Cold War (2008) and most recent co-edited volume is Translating Sholem Aleichem: History, Politics and Art (2012).
Matthew Hoffman is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Franklin & Marshall College, where he teaches courses on Jewish history and culture. Hoffman’s book is From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture (2007). He is currently working on a study of Yiddish-speaking communists in America in the years before World War II.
Maya Balakirsky Katz is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Art History at Touro College. She writes on the intersection of religious identity and media. Most recently, she authored the book The Visual Culture of Chabad (2011). She is currently working on the book Revising Dreyfus: Art and Law.
Beth S. Wenger is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania where she serves as Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Wenger’s most recent book is History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage (Princeton University Press, 2010). She is also the author of The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America (Doubleday, 2007), companion volume to the 2008 PBS series The Jewish Americans, which was named a National Jewish Book Award finalist. [End Page v]
Reviewers
Sheri Chinen Biesen is author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir and associate professor of film history at Rowan University. Her follow-up book on film noir is due out soon.
Kalman Bland is Professor of Religion (Jewish Studies) at Duke University. Among his recent publications is an essay in Ars Judaica, “A Jewish Theory of Visual Culture: Leon Modena’s Concepts of Images and Their Effect on Locative Memory” (2009).
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His most recent book is The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indians, and the Identity of Christian Europe (2009).
Beth B. Cohen is Gold/Weinstein Visiting Professor of Holocaust History at Chapman University. Her most recent book is Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in Postwar America (2007).
Vincent DiGirolamo teaches history at Baruch College. His book Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Abraham J. Gafni is a Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and a retired Pennsylvania judge.
Carole S. Kessner is Professor Emerita of Comparative Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her most recent work is Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self (2008).
Edward S. Shapiro is professor of history emeritus at Seton Hall University and the author of Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the Brooklyn Riot of 1991 (2006).
Nancy Sinkoff is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Chair of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. She is at work on a biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz entitled ‘Last Witness’: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History. [End Page vi]
