Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, Memory

Contributors

409 Contributors Ilana Abramovitch was Manager of Curriculum at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She is co-editor of Jews of Brooklyn and has been a New York Council for the Humanities Speaker on Rescuers during the Holocaust. Abramovitch teaches in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College. Daniel Belasco is a curator and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art and design. As Henry J. Leir Associate Curator at The Jewish Museum, New York, he organized the exhibitions Reinventing Ritual and Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism, while managing the museum’s contemporary Judaica program of acquisitions and commissions. In 2010, Belasco co-curated The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe’s Eighth International Biennial. Sally Charnow is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Hofstra University. She is the author of Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-siècle Paris. Her articles and review essays have appeared in Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques, Radical History Review, and H-France. Judah M. Cohen is the Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is author of Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment;andSounding Jewish Tradition: The Music of Central Synagogue and is co-editor of The Culture of AIDS in Africa. 410 Contributors Liora Gubkin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Bakersfield. She serves as co-chair for the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide group of the American Academy of Religion. She is the author of You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover Ritual. Gubkin has held fellowships at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. Sara R. Horowitz is Professor of Humanities and Director of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction, which received the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book. Horowitz was the senior editor of the Azrieli Series of Holocaust Memoirs—Canada and editor of Bits and Pieces, a memoir by Henia Reinhartz. She was a senior research fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and sits on its Academic AdvisoryCommittee .Horowitzisfoundingco-editorofthejournalKEREM: AJournalofCreativeExplorationsinJudaismandisco-editorofEncounter with Aharon Appelfeld and Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett isUniversityProfessor,Professor of Performance Studies, and Affiliated Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her books include Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust; Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; The Israel Experience : Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity; Writing a Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron; They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (co-authored with her father, Mayer Kirshenblatt), and The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, among other titles. She is currently Program Director for the Core Exhibition for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, now being built on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Edna Nahshon isProfessorofHebrewandTheaterattheJewishTheological Seminary and senior associate at Oxford University’s Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She has written extensively on the intersection of Jews, theater, and performance. Her books include Yiddish Contributors 411 Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef 1925–1940; From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Plays; Jews and Shoes; Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors’ Union 1899–2005; Jewish Theatre: A Global View; and Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context. Forthcoming publications include a co-edited volume , Countering Shylock: Jewish Responses to “The Merchant of Venice.” Currently, Nahshon is working on a study of Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theatre. Edward Portnoy receivedhisPh.D.fromtheJewishTheologicalSeminary , writing his dissertation on cartoons of the Yiddish press. His articlesonJewishpopularculturephenomenahaveappearedinTheDrama Review, Polin, and The International Journal of Comic Art. He currently teaches Jewish literature and Yiddish language at Rutgers University. Jeffrey Shandler isProfessorof JewishStudiesatRutgersUniversity. His books include While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust; Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture...