Contributors
- Contributors
HANOCH BEN-PAZI is a Senior Lecturer in Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. His research concentrates on contemporary philosophy and modern Jewish thought, especially with regard to the philosophical writings and Jewish thought of Emmanuel Levinas. His publications include: Interpretation as an Ethical Act: The Hermeneutics of Emmanuel Levinas (2012, Hebrew), and Emmanuel Levinas’ Educational Contract: Responsibility, Hopefulness, Alliance (2016, Hebrew).
MENACHEM KEREN-KRATZ holds a DMD from the Hebrew University. He has also completed a PhD in Yiddish literature at Bar Ilan University, and a PhD in Jewish history at Tel Aviv University. His most recently published book is Maramaros-Sziget: Extreme Orthodoxy and Secular Jewish Culture at the Foothills of the Carpathian Mountains (2013, in Hebrew). His next book will be a biography of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum–The Satmar Rebbe.
DEBORAH D. MOORE is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An historian of American Jews, she has published an acclaimed trilogy examining the years from 1920 to 1960, including the experience of Jewish soldiers in World War II. Her most recent book, Urban Origins of American Judaism (2014), examines how new religious forms emerged on the streets of American cities.
DANIEL REISER is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Shalem College, Jerusalem and at Safed (Zefat) Academic College. He specializes in Kabbalah, Hasidic philosophy, modern mysticism, and theology in the Shoah. He is the author of Vision as a Mirror: Imagery Techniques in Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism (Cherub Press, 2014). His newest work is a critical, annotated 2 volume edition of Rabbi Shapira’s sermons during the Holocaust (forthcoming 2017).
BENJAMIN RESNICK is a doctoral candidate in Jewish thought at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His work, both fiction and non-fiction, has appeared in a variety of publications including the Forward, Tablet, and the Journal of Inter-Religious Studies.
HIZKY SHOHAM is a senior lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, [End Page 361] and a research fellow in the Kogod Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His publications include: Carnival in Tel Aviv: Purim and the Celebration of Urban Zionism (2014), and Israel Celebrates: Festivals and Civic Culture in Israel (forthcoming from Brill). [End Page 362]
