Contributors
- Contributors
Sarina Chen teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA. She was a Posen fellow at Tulane University and Schusterman visiting scholar at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the Temple Mount in Jewish thought, contemporary Jewish–Israeli zealotry, and the interpretation of Jewish symbols in the modern Hebrew culture.
Gershon Greenberg is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at Hebrew University. Based in Washington, DC in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University, his research has been on religious thought through the Holocaust, nineteenth-century German–Jewish philosophy and America-Holy Land studies.
Boaz Huss is associate professor of Jewish thought at the Ben-Gurion University of Negev. His research interests include the Zohar and it reception, modern and postmodern Kabbalah formations, Kabbalah and Western Esotericism, and method and theory in the research of Kabbalah. His recent publications include Like the Radiance of the Sky: Chapters in the Reception History of the Zohar and the Construction of Its Symbolic Value (Jerusalem, 2008) (forthcoming in English in the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization); and Boaz Huss (ed.) Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival (Beer-Sheva, 2011).
Nehemia Polen is a professor of Jewish thought at Boston’s Hebrew College. He is the author of The Holy Fire: The Teachings of Rabbi Kalonymus Shapira, the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto (1994). In 1998–99, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, working on the writings of Malkah Shapiro (1894–1971), the daughter of a noted Hasidic master, whose Hebrew memoirs focus on the spiritual lives of women in the context of prewar Hasidism in Poland. The results of his research culminated in his book, The Rebbe’s Daughter (2002), which received a National Jewish Book Award.
Nirit Raichel is a senior lecturer in Gordon College and Kinneret College. Her recent publications include: “The Story of the Israeli Educational System” (2008, Hebrew); “The First ‘Hebrew’ Teachers in Eretz Yisrael – Characteristics, Difficulties and Coping Methods,” [End Page 136] History of Education (2009); and “Between the Dream and the Reality: Vocational Education in Israel, 1948–1992,” Israel Affairs (2013).
Lawrence Stepelevich is professor emeritus of philosophy at Villanova University. From 1977 to 1996, he was an editor of the Journal of the Hegel Society of America, The Owl of Minerva. He was elected as the president of that society in 1996. His 1983 work, Young Hegelianism: An Anthology (Cambridge University Press) initiated a series of studies on Hegel’s first followers, among them being the “Young Marx,” Ludwig Feuerbach, Bruno Bauer, Moses Hess, and Max Stirner. His studies on early Hegelianism have been published in book collections, encyclopedia entries, and journal articles. He has published two articles in the quarterly journal Judaism: “Marx and the Jews” and “Hegel and Judaism.” His particular interest has been to take the “anarchistic” or “egoistic” moral philosophy of Max Stirner as a logical expression of Hegelianism.
Tali Tadmor-Shimony is a senior lecturer in the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the study of Israel and Zionism, Ben Gurion University. She specializes in history of education. Her recent publications include: National Education and Formation of State (2010, 2011, Hebrew); “Immigrant and Veteran Teachers of the 1948 Generation,” Israel Studies (2011); and “The Shaping of Landscape Identity by Israeli State Education,” Paedagogica Historica International Journal of History of Education (2013). [End Page 137]
