Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe

Contributors

Contributors Nicholas Breyfogle is associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He is author of Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2005). He is also co-editor of Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History (Routledge, 2007) and guest editor of Russian Religious Sectarianism, a thematic issue of the journal Russian Studies in History (Winter 2007–08). J. Eugene Clay is associate professor in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He has written extensively on religious movements in Russia and eastern Europe and is most recently the co-editor, with Russell Martin and Barbara Skinner, of CentersandPeripheries : Interaction and Exchange in Eastern Christianity (Ohio State University Press, forthcoming). Glenn Dynner is professor of Judaic studies at Sarah Lawrence College and Hans Kohn Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He is author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society (Oxford University Press, 2006) and a forthcoming monograph on the role of Jews in the Polish liquor trade. Moshe Idel is the Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and senior researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. He is author of several prizewinning books, including Kabbalah: NewPerspectives(YaleUniversityPress,1988),Kabbalah&Eros(YaleUniversity 394 Contributors Press, 2005), and Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism (Continuum, 2007). He is the recipient of the Israel Prize in Jewish Thought, the Emmet Prize under the aegis of the prime minister of Israel, the Gershom Scholem Prize for research in Kabbalah, and several National Jewish Book awards. Harris Lenowitz is professor of languages and literature at the University of Utah. He is author of The Jewish Messiahs: From the Galilee to Crown Heights (Oxford University Press, 1998) and a forthcoming annotated translation of The Collection of the Words of the Lord, attributed to Jacob Frank (forthcoming from Wayne State University Press). Pawel Maciejko is a lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of several articles on Sabbateanism and The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement (1755–1831) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011). Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is professor in Jewish history in the Department of History and director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. He is author of several books, including Jews in the Russian Army, 1827–1917: Drafted into Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making of the Ukrainian Jew (Yale University Press, 2009), and Lenin’s Jewish Question (Yale University Press, 2010). Paul Radensky is the museum educator for Jewish schools at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. He is author of a number of articles on Jewish life in eastern Europe as well as a dissertation entitled “Hasidism in the Age of Reform: A Biography of Rabbi Duvid ben Mordkhe Twersky of Tal’noye” (Jewish Theological Seminary, 2001). Marsha Keith Schuchard is an independent scholar living in Atlanta. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is author of Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture (Brill, 2002) and William Blake’s Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision (Inner Traditions, 2008). Hanna We$grzynekisaresearchfellowandlecturerattheEmmanuelRingelblumJewishHistoricalInstitute ,Warsaw,andalecturerattheWarsawSchool of Economics. She is author of “Czarna legenda” Z{ydów. Procesy o rzekome mordyrytualnewdawnejPolsce [“Black legend” of Jews: Trials of alleged ritual Contributors 395 murders in old Poland] (1995), Historia i kultura Z{ydów polskich. Słownik [The history and culture of the Polish Jews. Dictionary], with Alina Cała and Gabriela Zalewska (2000), and The Treatment of Jewish Themes in Polish Schools (American Jewish Committee, 1998). Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University. He is author of several books, including Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (Princeton University Press, 1994), winner of a National Jewish Book Award and the American Academy of Religion award; and Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (Fordham University Press, 2005), which also won a National Jewish Book Award. His most recent books are Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (Columbia University Press, 2009) and A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (forthcoming from Zone...