Contributors
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Rachel Hallote is associate professor of history at Purchase College, State University of New York, where she directs the Jewish Studies program. An archaeologist who works in Israel, her research interests include the history of archaeology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the intersections between archaeology and politics.
Emily Alice Katz is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on American Jews as patrons and producers of culture and on postwar American Zionism. She was designated a Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellow of the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies' Early Career Fellowship Program in 2009 and is working on a book about Israel's role in American Jewish culture in the first postwar decades.
Joyce Galpern Norden is an independent scholar who received her B.A. (magna cum laude) from Smith College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and served as the vice president for institutional advancement at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is professor of history and holds the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. She is author, most recently, of Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (2008), for which she was the cowinner of the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Jewish Social Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, and the Journal of Modern History, among other journals.
Deborah Waxman received her Ph.D. in history from Temple University, where she completed a dissertation titled "Faith and Ethnicity in American Judaism: Reconstructionism as Ideology and Institution, 1935–1959." She is the author of "'A Lady Sometimes Blows the Shofar': Women's Religious Equality in the Postwar Reconstructionist Movement," which will appear in the edited volume, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America (forthcoming, 2010), and is also the recipient of the Ruth Fine Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society. Dr. Waxman holds rabbinical ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she also serves as vice president for governance and sits on the faculty. [Begin Page iv]
Reviewers
Michael R. Cohen is the director of Jewish studies at Tulane University. He earned his Ph.D. in American Jewish history from Brandeis University. His book The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter's Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement (forthcoming from Columbia University Press) argues that Conservative rabbis were largely responsible for creating the movement.
Jessica Cooperman is the Posen Foundation Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies at Muhlenberg College. She recently completed her Ph.D. in American Jewish history at NYU. She is currently working on a book, based on her dissertation, examining the impact of World War I Jewish military service and the work of the Jewish Welfare Board on the development of American conceptions of religious pluralism.
Norman J. W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His books include Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2006).
Rebecca Kobrin, Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University, works in the field of modern Jewish migration. She is currently editing a collection entitled Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism (2011) that explores the economic dimensions of American Jewish life, as well as a volume entitled Purchasing Power: The Economic Dimensions of Jewish History (forthcoming) that grew out of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Advanced Jewish Studies discussion of Jews, commerce, and culture.
David S. Koffman, a graduate student in history and in Hebrew & Judaic studies at New York University, is writing a dissertation about encounters between Jews and Native Americans in thte late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her most recent book is History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2006). She is currently writing a book on the Eichmann trial. [Begin Page v]
