Contributors
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Michael Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University. He is the author of The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter's Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement (Columbia University Press, 2012). His current research focuses on Jewish merchants in the postbellum Gulf South.
Richard Frankel is an assistant professor of modern German history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is the author of Bismarck's Shadow: The Cult of Leadership and the Transformation of the German Right, 1898-1945 and is currently at work on a book project comparing antisemitism in Germany and the United States.
Ofra Friesel received her doctorate at the Hebrew University and currently teaches at the Hebrew University and at Haifa University. Her book, Racial Discrimination, the Balance of Terror and Anti-Semitism: The Birth of a Human Rights Treaty, was published in Hebrew by the Sacher Institute, the Hebrew University (2011). An English edition is currently in preparation.
Jeffrey S. Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, served as associate editor of American Jewish History from 1982 to 2002. His most recent book is Jews in Gotham: New York Jews and a Changing City, 1920-2010 (New York: NYU Press, 2012).
Charles Hersch is professor of political science at Cleveland State University. He is the author of Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans (2007) and Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan (1998).
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Jennifer Glaser is an assistant professor of English and an affiliate faculty member in Judaic Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Exceptional Differences: Race, Chosenness, and the Jewish American Literary Imagination. She has published or has publications forthcoming in PMLA, MELUS, Safundi, Prooftexts, Literature Compass, and ImageText.
Matthew Pratt Guterl is Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies at Brown University and author, among other titles, of The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (2001). [End Page v]
Alan T. Levenson is Schusterman/Josey Professor of Jewish History at the University of Oklahoma. His most recent works are The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible (2011) and The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (2012).
David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of several books, including, most recently, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (2012).
William Pencak, Bert and Fanny Meisler visiting professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of South Alabama, edits the journal Pennsylvania History. He is the author of Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800 (2005), runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish History, and will publish an article on Jewish elements in the operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer in the Fall 2013 issue of Shofar.
Marc Lee Raphael is Professor of Religious Studies, the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, and the Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. His most recent book is The Synagogue in America: A Short History (2011).
William Simons, Professor of History at SUNY College at Oneonta, is the director of and editor of The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, an annual conference and biennial anthology that share a common title.
Amy Weiss, a PhD candidate in the departments of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and history at New York University, is writing a dissertation on the shifting relationship American Jewish Zionists had with liberal and then conservative Protestant Zionists in the post-World War II period. [End Page vi]
