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  • Contributors

Sarah Imhoff is Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies department and Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, race, and religion in American Jewish communities.

Rebecca Kobrin is the Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. Her first book, Jewish Bialystock and its Diaspora [Indiana, 2010] was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Prize for Modern Jewish History on the Americas.

Caroline Light has a doctorate in history and teaches in Harvard's Program in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality where she also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her book on southern Jewish benevolence is forthcoming from New York University Press.

Deborah Dash Moore is Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her work explores the history of American Jews' twentieth-century experience. Most recently she served as general editor for City of Promises: A History of New York Jews (2012).

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Leonard Dinnerstein is professor emeritus, University of Arizona. Among his published works are The Leo Frank Case (1968), America and the Survivors of the Holocaust (1982), and Antisemitism in America (1994), which won a Jewish Book Council Award.

Shifra Epstein is a folklorist currently studying the visual culture of Haredim in Brooklyn. She is the instructor of Wayne State University's Summer Program on Israel and the West Bank: Journey to Understand the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.

Fred A. Lazin is professor emeritus at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva Israel. He is the author of The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the author of Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9-11 (2009), and Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America (2001). He is currently completing a study of William Penn's social and political thought. [End Page v]

Shachar Pinsker is Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe (2012) and the co-editor of Hebrew, Gender, and Modernity (2007). His work is focused on Hebrew and Jewish literature in Europe, Israel, and America.

Daniel Soyer is professor of history at Fordham University. His most recent book (co-authored with Annie Polland) is The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Era of Immigration, 1840-1920 (2012). [End Page vi]

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