Contributors to This Issue

Dagmar Barnouw is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, with a research specialty of intellectual history of the modern period. Recent publications include Visible Spaces: Hannah Arendt and the German Jewish Experience (1990); Critical Realism: History, Photography, and the Work of Siegfried Kracauer (1994); Germany 1945: Views of War and Violence (1997); and Understanding Strangers: Difference and Documentation in the Work of V. S. Naipaul (2002).

Beth D. Hawkins is an assistant professor of English at DePauw University. Her areas of interest include modern German, French, and British literature, philosophy of liter ature (primarily existentialism), religious studies (primarily Jewish studies), phenomen ology and hermeneutics, and psychoanalysis. Her book Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabès is forthcoming from Fordham University Press.

Benny Krautis Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, and Professor of history at Queens College, CUNY, as well as a member of the graduate faculty of the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Heidi G. Lerner is the Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger at the Stanford University Libraries. She has a M.L.S. from the Graduate School of Library and Archive Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has been active in Judaica librarianship for over a decade.

Oliver B. Pollak is a professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He earned his doctorate at UCLA and his law degree at Creighton University. He has published over 100 scholarly articles regarding colonialism in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, Jewish history and bankruptcy. He published Jewish Life in Omaha and Lincoln in 2001, and his volumes A Year at the Sorbonne, A Proustian Life, and Nebraska Courthouses, Conflict, Compromise and Community will appear in 2002. He is cofounder of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, a former board member of the Nebraska Humanities Council, and current board member of the Nebraska Center for the Book.

Rachel Rubin is an assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Massa chusetts Boston. She is the author of Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature (2000) and co-editor of American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century (2001).