Contributors
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Professor Emeritus Lawrence Baron held the Nasatir Chair of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University from 1988 until 2012 and directed its Jewish Studies Program until 2006. He received his Ph.D. in modern European cultural and intellectual history from the University of Wisconsin in 1974. He taught at St. Lawrence University from 1975 until 1988. He has authored and edited four books, including The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema (2011) and Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (2005). He served as the historian and an interviewer for Sam and Pearl Oliner’s The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. He is the founder and president of the Western Jewish Studies Association.
Judith R. Baskin, Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities, is Associate Dean for Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Oregon, where she has been since 2000. Baskin served as President of the Association for Jewish Studies from 2004 to the end of 2006. A recipient of the Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University in 1976, she has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies from 1988 to 2000. Baskin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles, in 2012. Dr. Baskin is the author of Midrashic Women: Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature (2002) and Pharaoh’s Counsellors: Job, Jethro and Balaam in Rabbinic and Patristic Tradition (1983). Her most recent edited volumes are The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture (2011) and The Cambridge Guide to Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (2010), coedited with Kenneth Seeskin and a 2011 National Jewish Book Award winner. Other edited volumes include Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, now in its second edition (1998), and Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (1994). Professor Baskin is currently writing a feminist commentary on Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud.
Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies. His research has been centered in several areas: the use of religious metaphors in the Hebrew Bible (God is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor, 1989), the nature of biblical historical texts as “literary” texts (The Creation of History in Ancient Israel, 1995;The Book of Judges, 2002), and in gender and the Bible. He was a coeditor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament (2011) and [End Page 170] The New Oxford Annotated Bible (2001, revised 2010), coauthor of The Bible and the Believer (2012), author of Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Hebrew (2002), and coeditor of The Jewish Study Bible (2004, 2014), which was awarded a National Jewish Book Award. His book How to Read the Bible was published by the Jewish Publication Society in fall 2005, and in paperback as How to Read the Jewish Bible by Oxford University Press in 2007. Brettler teaches survey courses, such as Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Women and the Hebrew Bible, as well as Hebrew text courses such as Exodus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Song of Songs, Biblical Historical Texts, Dead Sea Scrolls and Biblical Hebrew Composition. He cofounded the website thetorah.com, which aims at broadening the place of academic biblical studies within the Jewish community.
Jennifer Caplan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Religion at Syracuse University. Her areas of specialization include religion in America, American Judaism, and religion and popular culture. Caplan’s dissertation is entitled, “All Joking Aside: The Role of Religion in American Jewish Satire.” She has taught several courses in Jewish Studies, including Jewish Life and Thought, American Jewish Humor, Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought, Israelis and Palestinians in Literature and Film, and The Hebrew Bible and Jewish Tradition. She recently published “Baal Sham Tov: Woody Allen’s Hassidic Tale Telling” in Bulletin for the Study of Religion (2013).
Geoffrey Claussen is the Lori and Eric Sklut Emerging Scholar in Jewish Studies, Coordinator of the Jewish Studies Program, and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University. He received his rabbinic ordination and Ph.D...
