Contributors to This Issue
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Rebecca Alpert is Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Monica Bachmann is a doctoral candidate in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation examines gay and Jewish representation in post-war American literature, and she has published articles in GLQ and in several critical anthologies. She has taught literature and gender studies at the University of Montana and the University of Michigan.
Dr. Elisheva Baumgarten teaches in the Department of Jewish History and the Graduate Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University. Her research focuses on cultural and social history in the medieval Ashkenazic Communities. Her book Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (Princeton, 2004) was the winner of the Koret Prize in History 2005 and Runner-up in the category of Women’s Studies for the Jewish National Book Award.
Mariam Cohen, M.D., Psy.D., M.A. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Scottsdale, Arizona, and a Faculty Associate and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is a graduate of St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD, and Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, and received her psychoanalytic training at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies.
Susanne Klingenstein is a lecturer in the humanities at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She is the author of two books on Jewish academics and of many essays on Jewish literature and culture.
Heidi Lerner received an MLS from the Graduate School of Library and Archive Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1982. Since 1990, she has served as the Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger at the Stanford University [End Page vii] Libraries. She has published in academic journals of librarianship and of Jewish Studies.
Yale M. Needel is Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology at University of Maryland University College in the School of Undergraduate Studies. He has conducted research in India, Israel, and Thailand. His recent publications include a forthcoming study on the Indian-Jewish communities of Bombay and Southeast Asia as well as several literature reviews. His current research involves an in-depth ethnographic study of Buddhist-related amulets, charms, votive tablets, and tattoos and the roles they play among a group of motorbiketaxi drivers in Bangkok’s Klong Toey market and slum district. The study will explain the current trend towards the commodification of religion as observed in Thailand.
John Rodden is the author of Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves (1999), The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy (2004), and Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings (2006), among other books.
Aviva Weintraub is Associate Curator at the Jewish Museum and Director of the New York Jewish Film Festival, a collaborative project of the Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. She holds an M.A. in Yiddish Studies from Columbia University. Her areas of interest and research include Yiddish and Jewish culture, film, photography, and performance. She is a member of the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University. [End Page viii]
