Contributors
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Hasia R. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Goren-Goldstein Center for American Jewish History at New York University. In addition to her many books on American Jewish history and culture, she has also written on the history of African Americans and Irish and Italian immigrants to the United States. Her most recent publications are Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2002); The Jews of the United States, 1654–2000 (2004); and We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945–1962 (2009).
Sol Encel is professor emeritus and honorary research associate at the Social Policy Research Centre of the University of New South Wales (since 1991) and in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical, and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney (since 2004). He has published extensively on a wide range of social issues. His latest book is Longevity and Social Change in Australia (coedited with Allan Borowski and Elizabeth Ozanne, 2007). He hopes to publish a book with Suzanne D. Rutland based on their joint study of the "Political Sociology of Australian Jewry."
David A. Hollinger is Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History at the University of California at Berkeley. One of America's foremost intellectual historians, his books include Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995); Science, Jews and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth Century American Intellectual History (1996), Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious and Professional Affiliation in the United States (2006); and a documentary reader, The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook (coedited with Charles Capper, 1989; 5th ed., 2006). He is the incoming president of the Organization of American Historians.
Paula E. Hyman is the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. She has written widely on the history of Jews in France and the United States, as well as on the role of gender in shaping Jewish acculturation and identity. Her books include The Jewish Woman In America (with Charlotte Baum and Sonia Michel, 1976); From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906–1939 (1979); The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace (1991); Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (1995); and The Jews of Modern France (1998). She is also the coeditor, with Deborah Dash Moore, of Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997).
Alan M. Kraut is professor of history at American University. He is a specialist in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the history of medicine in the United States, and nineteenth century U.S. social history. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994); Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health [End Page v] Crusader (2003); American Immigration and Ethnicity: A Reader (coedited with David Gerber, 2005); and Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America (coauthored with Deborah Kraut, 2007).
Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the political and cultural history of American Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s.
Suzanne D. Rutland is associate professor in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical, and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia. Her latest books are The Jews in Australia (2005) and Nationality Stateless: Destination Australia (co-authored with Sarah Rood, 2008). Along with the Australian Jewish journalist Sam Lipski, she is currently writing a book detailing Australia's role in the campaign for Soviet Jewry. In January 2008 she received the Medal of the Order of Australia for her work in higher Jewish education and interfaith dialogue.
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Cliff Doerksen is a lecturer in the Business Institutions Program at Northwestern University. He is the author of American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age (2005...
