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  • Editorial Introduction
  • Steven T. Katz, Editor

It is a pleasure to announce publicly the addition of the following three distinguished scholars to our Editorial Board.

Leora Batnitzky is Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor and chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Her teaching and research interests include philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory. She is the author of three books: Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000), Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006), and How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Princeton, 2011), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her current research focuses on legal theory and religion.

Michael Brenner is Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, DC, and Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. He taught previously at Indiana and Brandeis University and has been a visiting professor at the universities of Haifa, Paris, Zurich, Stanford, Berkeley, and Johns Hopkins. He is the international vice president of the Leo Baeck Institute and an elected fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Mantova. His latest publication is an edited volume on the history of German Jewry from 1945 until today. He is the author of seven books, among them A Short History of the Jews (Princeton, 2010), Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History (Princeton, 2010), and Zionism: A Brief History (Marcus Wiener, 2003, and has coedited fifteen books, among them the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times (Columbia 1996–98). His books have been translated into Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Czech, Danish, and Korean.

Samuel Moyn is James Bryce Professor of European Legal History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2001. He received his PhD in history from the University of California-Berkeley and a JD from Harvard University. He is the author of three books, including Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (2005) and A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France(2005). He has also worked on the history of human rights. With Eugene Sheppard, he coedits the Brandeis Library of Modern [End Page 1] Jewish Thought, with four volumes published so far. His most recent work in Jewish studies includes the entry on Jews and the philosophy of history in the Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy and an essay on René Cassin and Jewish internationalism in a new volume of intellectual portraits titled Thinking Jewish Modernity.

The addition of these highly accomplished scholars adds new intellectual vitality and breadth to our editorial team. We thank them for assuring the continued quality of Modern Judaism. [End Page 2]

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