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contributors Murray Baumgarten is professor of English and comparative literature and coordinator of Jewish studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the editor of Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, published by the American Jewish Congress. He is the founding director of the Dickens Project and has written extensively on Victorian literature and culture and modern Jewish writing, includingCity Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing (1982). Bluma Goldstein is professor emerita in the German Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Reinscribing Moses: Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg in a European Wilderness (1992), as well as recent articles on Schoenberg and the Bible, Kafka, and Andy Warhol. She is currently completing a work on the representation of deserted wives/agunahs that covers writings in German, Yiddish, and English from the seventeenth century to the mid–twentieth century. Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent publications include Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (1998) and Diaspora : Jews amidst the Greeks and Romans (forthcoming). Daniel J. Schroeter is the Teller Family chair in Jewish history, at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent book isThe Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World (forthcoming). Catherine M. Soussloff held the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, before becoming professor of art history and director of visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester in 2001. She is the author of The Absolute Artist: The Historiography 279 of a Concept (1997) and The Subject in Art: Portraiture and Identity in Vienna ca. 1900 (forthcoming). She also edited Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (1999). Professor Soussloff has published articles on early modern Italian art and theory, the history of aesthetics, theories of performance, and avant-garde film. Kerri Steinberg teaches art history at the University of Redlands. Her publications include “From Stereotype to Archetype: Demystifying American Jewish Identity in the Photographic Campaigns of the USA” in Representations of Jews through the Ages (1996) and “The Ties That Bind: Americans, Ethiopians , and the Extended Jewish Family” in Race, Gender, and Class (1999). Bernard Susser is Senator Norman Paterson Professor of Politics at Bar Ilan University.His mostrecentworks includePolitical Ideologies in theModernWorld (1999), Choosing Survival: Strategies for a Jewish Future (with Charles Liebman , 1999), and Israel and the Politics of Jewish Identity: The Secular-Religious Impasse (with Asher Cohen, 2000). Louise Tallen teaches in the departments of anthropology, biobehaviorial sciences, and psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Irwin Wall is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. His latest publication isFrance, the United States, and the Algerian War (2001). Howard Wettstein is professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications include Has Semantics Rested upon a Mistake? and Other Essays (1991) and The Magic Prism: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (forthcoming). He is the editor (since 1976) of the Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California , Davis, where she is also a member of the Jewish studies program. She recently coauthored (with Yen Le Espiritu) “The Paradox of Assimilation: Children of Filipino Immigrants in San Diego” in Ethnicities: The New Second Generation, edited by Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut. Her book Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Family Reconstruction in Postwar Netherlands is forthcoming. 280 contributors ...

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