Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue

Editors and Contributors

267 Editors and Contributors Editors Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has published numerous articles dealing with the thought of Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas and is the coeditor of two collections of essays rooted in Buber’s thought: Education for Peace: Testimonies from World Religions and Women’s and Men’s Liberation: Testimonies of Spirit. Within the field of Holocaust studies, Grob has authored articles and book chapters on topics such as post-Holocaust education, ethics after the Holocaust, post-Holocaust theodicy, and philosophical reflections on rescuers. Since 1996, Grob has served as co-organizer, along with Henry F. Knight, of the biennial Stephen S. Weinstein Holocaust Symposium (formerly the Pastora Goldner Holocaust Symposium) in Wroxton, England. He has also been involved in projects devoted to encouraging Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. Grob is the coeditor of Teen Voices from the Holy Land: Who Am I to You?, a volume of Israeli and Palestinian children ’s narratives. In 2008, Grob and John K. Roth published Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, a collection of essays focused on the Holocaust and the ongoing issues in the Middle East. John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights Leader- 268 Editors and Contributors ship) at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966 through 2006. In 2007–2008, he served as the Robert and Carolyn Frederick Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. In addition to service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and on the editorial board of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, he has published hundreds of articles and reviews and authored, coauthored, or edited more than forty books, including Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide; Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath; Ethics during and after the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau; and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies. Roth has been a visiting professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, and his Holocaust-related research appointments have included a 2001 Koerner Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in England as well as a 2004–2005 appointment as the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. In 1988, Roth was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Contributors Rachel N. Baum is adjunct assistant professor of Jewish studies and Hebrew studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also coordinates the Jewish studies major. Baum’s research focuses on the emotions of post-Holocaust Jewish identity. She has published a number of essays, including chapters in Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma, edited by Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, and Claudia Eppert, and After-Words: Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Justice, edited by David Patterson and John K. Roth. Baum has also presented her work at the Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches; the University of Oregon’s “Ethics and the Holocaust” conference; and the Holocaust Educational Foundation ’s “Lessons and Legacies” conference, among others. Baum currently serves on the executive committee of Milwaukee’s Holocaust Education and Resource Center and is an educator in its Holocaust Study Institute. She is currently working on a project about the recreation of Jewish life in virtual worlds such as Second Life. 269 Editors and Contributors Margaret Brearley read modern languages at Oxford University. She was awarded a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to Münster University, Germany, and received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University. From 1973, Brearley was a lecturer in German medieval and Renaissance literature at Birmingham University, taking early retirement in 1986 to found and direct the West Midlands Israel Information Centre. She has held academic posts at the Centre for Judaism and JewishChristian Relations, Selly Oak Colleges (1987–1992), and the Institute of Jewish Affairs, London (1992–1996). Brearley has lectured in Israel, Germany , Finland, and the United States and throughout Great Britain. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, especially on antiJudaism , genocide, the Holocaust, and the Roma people. Brearley...