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  • Contributors

Shalom Goldman is an associate professor of Hebrew, Middle Eastern, and South Asian studies at Emory University. His most recent book is God's Sacred Tongue: Hebrew and the American Imagination (2004).

Steven M. Lowenstein is the Isadore Levine Professor of History at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. Among his many publications are Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933–83 (1989), The Mechanics of Change: Essays on the Social History of German Jewry (1992), and The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770–1830 (1994).

Stanley Nash is a professor of Hebrew literature at Hebrew Union a College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He is the author of In Search of Hebraism: Shai Hurwitz and His Polemics in the Hebrew Press (1980), Migvan: Studies in Honor of Jacob Kabakoff, Ben Historiyyah le-Sifrut: Studies in Honor of Isaac Barzilay, and numerous articles on Hebrew literary figures, novels, themes, and trends. He is currently writing a monograph on Aharon Megged.

Adam Rubin is an assistant professor of Jewish history at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on Jewish culture and politics in Eastern Europe and pre-State Palestine. He is currently writing a book titled Hayim Nahman Bialik and the Zionist Reinvention of Jewish Tradition.

Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Author or editor of more than twenty books on American Jewish history and life, he is also the chief historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and of the 350th commemoration of Jewish life in America, 1654–2004. His most recent book, American Judaism: A History (2004), has just appeared.

Bernard Wasserstein is the Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Chicago. He was previously the president of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a fellow of St. Cross College. Among his many publications are Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939–1945 (1979), The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (1988), Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945 (1996), and Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? (2003).

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