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  • Contributors

Lawrence G. Charap recently completed his Ph.D. in American History at Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Boston.

Rafael Medoff is Visiting Scholar in the Jewish Studies Program at Purchase College, The State University of New York. His most recent book is Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II (2001).

Marc Lee Raphael is the editor of American Jewish History. Columbia University Press will publish his history of Judaism in America in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the Jews in America.

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Yaakov Ariel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880-2000.

Ronald H. Bayor is Professor of History at Georgia Tech and founding and present editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History. His most recent book is Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.

Sherry Blanton is curator of a traveling exhibit, "Lives of Quiet Affirmation: An Alabama Jewish Community." Her articles have appeared in Southern Jewish History and Alabama Heritage.

Lynn Davidman is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies, American Civilization and Gender Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism, and most recently, of Motherloss.

Gertrude Dubrovsky, an independent scholar and writer, is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. She has written extensively on American Jewish farmers and their communities and produced a documentary film on the subject. She is now working on a book about the Kindertransport and the Cambridge Refugee Children' s Committee. [End Page 1]

Roberta Rosenberg Farber is Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology at Yeshiva University Stern College for Women and Yeshiva University Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration. She has recently co-edited with Chaim I. Waxman Jews in America: A Contemporary Reader (1999).

Hilene Flanzbaum is Associate Professor of English at Butler University. She is the editor of The Americanization of the Holocaust (1999) and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (2001). She has also been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Reena Sigman Friedman is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Civilization at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and author of These are Our Children: Jewish Orphanages in the United States, 1880-1925 (1994).

Adele Hast is Scholar in Residence at The Newberry Library and Senior Research Associate of the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is editor, with Rima Lunin Schultz, of Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary (2001).

Felicia Herman received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University for her dissertation, "Views of Jews: Antisemitism, Hollywood, and the American Jewish Community, 1913-1947." She is a Program Officer at Jewish Life Network.

S. Lillian Kremer is Professor of English at Kansas State University. She is the author of Women's Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination (1999) and Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature (1989).

Bobbie Malone, Director of the Office of School Services at the Wisconsin Historical Society, is the author of Rabbi Max Heller: Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929 (1997) and numerous books on Wisconsin history for classroom use.

Louise A. Mayo is the Chair of the Department of History and Political Science, County College of Morris, NJ. She is the author of The Ambivalent Image: Nineteenth-Century America's Perception of the Jew (1988) and The House Divided: America in the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction (2001).

Rafael Medoff is Visiting Scholar in the Jewish Studies Program at Purchase College, The State University of New York. His most recent book is Baksheesh Diplomacy: Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of World War II (2001). [End Page 2]

MacDonald Moore is a Visiting Associate Professor at Vassar College. He is the author of Yankee Blues: Musical Culture and American Identity (1985).

Andrea Most is Assistant Professor of Drama and American Literature at the University of Toronto. She is completing a book...

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