Contributors
- Contributors
Jay R. Berkovitz is Professor and Chair of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His publications, which focus on early modern Jewish law, ritual and communal governance, include Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860, and Tradition and Revolution in Early Modern France (in Hebrew). His newest book, Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771–1790, is scheduled to appear with Brill Academic Publishers in 2013. He currently serves as Co-Editor of Jewish History.
Morris M. Faierstein (PhD Temple University) is an independent scholar. He has published widely in the areas of Hasidism, Kabbalah and Early Modern Yiddish literature. His books include, All is in the Hands of Heaven: The Teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Joseph Leiner of Izbica (1989, rev. edn., 2005), The Libes Briv of Isaac Wetzlar (1996), Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets (1999) and Sefer ha-Hezyonot: Yomano shel R. Hayyim Vital (2005). His most recent book, Jewish Customs of Kabbalistic Origins is forthcoming from Academic Studies Press.
Steven T. Katz holds the Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Boston University where he is Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies. He has published widely in the field of Holocaust Studies and has also edited four important books on mysticism. His most recent volume entitled Comparative Mysticism: An Anthology of Original Sources is forthcoming this fall from Oxford University Press.
Shaul Magid is the Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Professor of Modern Judaism and Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University/Bloomington. His previous book, From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbalah, was awarded the AAR best book in religion in the textual studies category in 2008. His new book, American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society, will be published by Indiana University Press in January 2013.
Ariel Evan Mayse is a doctoral candidate in Jewish Studies at Harvard University, where his dissertation focuses on the question of [End Page 372] language in early Hasidic thought. His publications include: “Or haHayyim: Creativity, Tradition, and Mysticism in the Torah Commentary of R. Hayyim ibn Attar” (Conversations, 2012); “‘Who Amongst You is Transcribing my Teachings?:’ Orality and Vitality in Written Hasidic Homilies,” (Yerusholaymer Almanakh 29) [Yiddish]; and the forthcoming Around the Maggid’s Table: Torah Interpretations by the Founders of Hasidism, with Arthur Green, Ebn Leader, and Or Rose (Jewish Lights).
Sharon R. Siegel is the author of a forthcoming book entitled A Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls: The Torah’s Covenant Affirmed (Brandeis University Press), as well as a number of related articles. [End Page 373]
