Contributors
- Contributors
Doron Bar teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. His work examines the ways in which pilgrimage and holy space influenced Palestine's geography through history. Among his published articles are "A New Kind of Pilgrimage: The Modern Tourist Pilgrim of Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Palestine" (2003) and "Re-creating Jewish Sanctity in Jerusalem: The Case of Mount Zion and David's Tomb Between 1948 and 1967" (2004). He is currently working on a book dealing with the creation of Jewish holy places in Israel between 1948 and 1970.
Glenn Dynner is a professor of Judaic Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He holds B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brandeis University, and an M.A. degree from McGill University. His book, Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, was published by Oxford University Press in early 2006.
Jay Geller teaches at Vanderbilt Divinity School. In 2001 he was the Fulbright/Sigmund Freud Society Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna); he has also received, inter alia, DAAD, ACLS, NEH, and CCACC (Rutgers) fellowships. He has published articles on Freud's Jewish identity and on the relationship between antisemitism and modern European Jewish identity formation.
Berel Lang is Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Letters at Wesleyan University and, in the Spring of 2005, was Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University. He is the author of, among other books, Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (Polish translation, 2005), Holocaust Representation: Art Within the Limits of History and Ethics (2000), and Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History (2005).
Leyla Neyzi is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University, Istanbul. Her areas of interest include cultural identity, nationalism and minorities, Middle Eastern and Southeast European ethnography, and social history. She is currently working on the oral history of a neighborhood in the city of Istanbul.
Minna Rozen is Professor of Jewish history at the University of Haifa, with a special concern for the history of Ottoman and post-Ottoman Jews. She is the author of, among other recent publications, [End Page 190] A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453-1566 (2002); the editor of The Last Ottoman Century and Beyond: The Jews in Turkey and the Balkans, 1808-1945, vol. 2 (2002); and the author of volume 1 of the same title (2005). [End Page 191]
