Contributors
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Eric A. Goldman is founder and president of Ergo Media, a video publishing company that specializes in Jewish-oriented video. He teaches film history at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Queens College, and reviews film for New Jersey's Jewish Standard. He is film program curator for the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and artistic director of the Jack Wolgin Jewish Film Festival in Philadelphia.
Jonathan Karp is Assistant Professor in the departments of Judaic Studies and History at Binghamton University, SUNY. He has recently published "The Aesthetic Difference: Moses Mendelssohn's Kohelet Musar and the Inception of the Berlin Haskalah," in Ross Bran and Adam Sutcliffe, eds., Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture, and is currently completing a book entitled Up From Usury: Economic Thought and the Incorporation of the Jews, 1638-1848.
Emily Alice Katz is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish studies at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Her research focuses on American Jewish patronage and consumption of Israeli culture. She was curator of "Culture as Commodity: Internet Auctions and Judaica Collecting," an exhibition at the Judaica Museum in New York City.
Edna Nahshon is a member of the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is Senior Associate of Oxford University's Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940, and of the forthcoming From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays (Wayne State University Press). She is currently working on a book entitled Spectacular Justice: Mock Trials and Public Jewish Discourse.
Julius Novick is Professor Emeritus of Drama Studies at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the author of Beyond Broadway: The Quest for Permanent Theaters, and is currently writing a study of American Jewish drama.
Ellen Schiff's most recent book is a new edition of Awake & Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays. She is currently co-editing an anthology of scripts that have won the National Foundation for Jewish Culture's New Jewish Play commission and have been developed to full production.
Lee Shai Weissbach is Professor of History at the University of Louisville, where he has also served as department chair and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of, among other works, The Synagogues of Kentucky: Architecture and History. His book on the history of small-town Jewish communities in America is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
