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  • Contributors

Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University, where she chairs the American Studies Department. She is the author of The Journal Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America, and editor of Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture and America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers.

Pamela Brown Lavitt is a doctoral candidate studying Jewish folklore and theatre history at New York University's Department of Performance Studies, where she is completing a dissertation on Jewish minstrelsy and ethnic performance in popular culture. Living in Seattle, Pamela coordinates the Seattle Jewish Film Festival and is currently a Research Fellow with the Jewish Women's Archive.

Amelia S. Holberg recently completed her Ph.D.in Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrea Most is completing her Ph.D.in the Departments of English and Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and will be an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto beginning in the Fall of 2000.

Josh Kun is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His arts column, "Frequencies," appears in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Boston Phoenix, and his writings on popular culture have appeared in SPIN, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, LA Weekly and other publications. He is currently working with Wesleyan University Press on the republication of Mickey Katz's Papa, Play for Me.

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