Reviewers

Samantha Baskind is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History and Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. She is the author of Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (2004).

Ellen Eisenberg is the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. Her most recent publications include chapters in Jewish Life in the American West (2002) and California Jews (2003).

Judith Laikin Elkin is an associate of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, and author of The Jews of Latin America (rev. ed. 1998).

Marjorie N. Feld is Assistant Professor of History at Babson College. She is manuscript editor for the journal Radical Teacher. Her manuscript is a biography of Lillian D. Wald.

Edna S. Friedberg, a historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, is also a doctoral candidate at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is writing a dissertation on the origins of American Jewish services for the elderly.

Andrew Harrison is the archivist for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and an adjunct faculty member at Temple University. His most recent work is Passover Revisited: Philadelphia's Efforts to Aid Soviet Jews, 1963-1998 (2001).

Dara Horn is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard University, specializing in Hebrew and Yiddish literature. She is the author of In the Image: A Novel, which received a 2003 National Jewish Book Award.

Leon A. Jick is Professor Emeritus of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. His book, The Americanization of the Synagogue, was the subject of the March 2002 issue of American Jewish History entitled "A Fresh Look at a Classic.

Allen Krause is the senior rabbi of Temple Beth El in Aliso Viejo, California. His master's thesis, "The Southern Rabbi and Civil Rights," examines southern Jewry's response to the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, mandating integration of public schools.

Deborah Dash Moore is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Religion at Vassar College and Director of the Jewish Studies Program. Her most recent book is GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004).

Mareleyn Schneider is a Professor of Sociology at Yeshiva University. Her most recent book is Wisdom of the Heart: Expanding the Jewish Mind (2002).

Robert M. Seltzer is Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Social Studies Program of Hunter College and the Graduate School of The City University of New York. He is currently preparing a second edition of Jewish People, Jewish Thought (1980) and is the co-editor of The Americanization of the Jews (1995).

Ellen M. Umansky is the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies at Fairfield University. Her new book, From Christian Science to Jewish Science: Spiritual Healing and American Jews, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Hollace Ava Weiner, author of Jewish Stars in Texas (1999), is past president of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and the recipient of a Jewish Women's Archive research fellowship. A graduate student at the University of Texas in Arlington, she resides in Fort Worth.