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  • Contributors to this Issue

Liora Bing Heidecker is a classical ballet teacher, poet, translator and member of the Dance Research Society of Israel. Her principal research interests are aesthetics of classical ballet, poetics of dance and artistic ideologies in early Zionist dance. She has translated into Hebrew dance writings by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry (2010), Théophile Gautier (2012) and Akim Volynsky (forthcoming). liora.bingheidecker@gmail.com

Henriette Dahan Kalev is a reader in politics and founder of the gender studies program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her recent publications are Palestinian Activism in Israel: A Bedouin Woman Leader in a Changing Middle East (2012); and her edition of In Blessing Secret: The Poetry of Bracha Serri (2013). She divides her time between academic research and human rights activism. henms@bgu.ac.il

Sheila E. Jelen is Associate Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, where she also directs the program in Comparative Literature. She is the author of Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern Hebrew Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 2007), the co-editor of a number of critical volumes, including Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), and an associate editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. She is currently working on a book entitled “Salvage Poetics: Literature, Photography, and the Creation of a Popular Ethnography of Eastern European Jewish Life.” sjelen@umd.edu

Adeena Karasick is a multimedia artist and author of seven books of poetry and cultural theory, most recently This Poem (Talonbooks, 2012). She is Professor of Gender, Media and Pop Culture at Fordham University in New York and co-founding Director of the Klezkanada Poetry Retreat, Festival of Yiddish Music, Language and Culture. adeenakarasick@cs.com

Jacqueline Laznow, who was born in Argentina and immigrated to Israel as a child, is currently writing her doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Hagar Salamon in the Folklore and Folk Culture Studies Program at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on memoirs of Argentine-Israelis, with an emphasis on gender issues. Her M.A. thesis dealt with the life stories of women rabbis living and working in Israel. She is currently Editorial Coordinator of Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore. jacquelinel@savion.huji.ac.il

Marjorie Lehman is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She recently published The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus (Wayne State University Press, 2012). She is presently working on a feminist commentary on Tractate Yoma in the Babylonian [End Page 179] Talmud and co-editing a book, with Simon Bronner (Penn State) and Jane Kanarek (Hebrew College), on depictions of mothers in Jewish culture (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, forthcoming). malehman@jtsa.edu

Judith Margolis, Nashim’s art editor, is an Israel-based American artist, essayist and book designer. Her works often integrate text with visual images. Her illustrated Omer book, Countdown to Perfection: Meditations on the Sefirot (Bright Idea Books; text by Sarah Yehudit Schneider), has been acquired by numerous private and public collections, including the Yale University Rare Book Library; the New York Public Library, Special Collections; and the University of Washington Rare Book Collection. Current collaborative art projects include GAZETTEER, with poet and essayist C.S. Giscombe (UC Berkeley); LIFT BLADE PLOW with Shenzhen-based ethnographic anthropologist Mary Ann O’Donnell; and Women of the Book: Jewish Women Recording, Reflecting, Revisioning, an international Torah midrash project. www.judithmargolis.com

Rena Molho has published five books and more than sixty articles in international academic journals, conference proceedings and encyclopedias, focusing on the history and culture of Salonika’s Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. renamolho@gmail.com

Robert Pruter is the reference and government documents librarian at Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois. His work in sport history has included articles and reviews for the Journal of Sport History, the International Journal of the History of Sport, and Sport History Review. He is the author of The Rise of American High School Sports and the Search for Control, 1880–1930 (Syracuse University Press, 2013). PruterRo@lewisu.edu

Lea Taragin-Zeller is a doctoral student...

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