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  • Contributors

Daniel Soyer is Assistant Professor at Fordham University, on leave during 2000-01 to serve as editor and director of the Immigrant Autobiographies Project at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. His book, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identitv in New York. 1880-1930, was co-winner of the American Jewish Historical Society's Saul Viener Award and winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press.

Kenneth Libo is joint author with Irving Howe of World of Our Fathers and How We Lived, and principal author of We Lived There Too, a documentary history of Jews in the American West, and All in a Lifetime, an oral memoir of John and Frances Lehman Loeb. Dr. Libo resides in New York City.

Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. Her most recent book is Lower East Side Memories: The Jewish Place in America.

Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University and the author of Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish. Polish and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. He is currently working on a book about the ethnic revival, Hyphen Nation: The Politics of Diversity in "A Nation of Immigrants".

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Jewish Studies program at SUNY, New Paltz. His most recent book is Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America.

Andrew R. Heinze is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Swig Judaic Studies program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants. Mass Consumption and the Search for American Identity. Heinze is now writing Jews and the American Soul in the Twentieth Century and is one of the authors of the forthcoming Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Ewa Morawska is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recent publications incude Reflections on Migration Research: Promises of Interdisciplinarity (coedited with M. Bommes, forthcoming) and Insecure Prosperity: Smalltown Jews in Industrial America. 1890-1940. [End Page 1]

Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sydney Stahl Weinberg is Professor of History and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Ramapo college. She is the author of The World of our Mothers: The Lives of Jewish Immigrant Women.

Reviewers

Michael Alexander received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999 and since then has been Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Jazz Age Jews (forthcoming, 2001).

Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and general editor of the Asian-American Experience series for the University of Illinois Press. His most recent book is Debating American Immigration (with Otis Graham).

Aleisa Fishman, a Ph.D. candidate in American history at American University, is writing a dissertation on the relationship between the marketplace and Jewish identity in post-World War II suburbia.

Joseph B. Glass lectures at the Department of Geography and the Rothberg International School and is the Academic Coordinator of the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent book is From New Zion to Old Zion: American Jewish Immigration and Settlement in Palestine, 1917-1939.

Susanne Klingenstein is Associate Professor in the Program of Writing and Humanistic Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (1991) and Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990 (1998). She is also cultural correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and currently at work on Preserving the Past: The Integration of the Holocaust into Germany's Cultural Memory.

Rochelle L. Millen is Professor of Religion at Wittenberg University and editor of New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars (1996). [End Page 2]

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