Contributors
- Contributors
Sally Frankental teaches in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and was the first director of the university’s Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies and Research. Her current research focus is on issues of migration, ethnicity, and citizenship, combined with a continuing interest in South African Jewry. She also teaches “Contemporary Jewry” in the university’s Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Catherine Hezser is Al and Felice Lippert Professor of Jewish Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She received her Ph.D. in Jewish studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1992 and was a faculty member at the Free University in Berlin from 1994 to 2000. Her publications focus on the social history and literature of the Jews in ancient and modern times.
Boaz Huss, who received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. He was a Fulbright fellow at Yale University, a Starr fellow at Harvard University, and a fellow of the Institute of Advance Studies at the Hebrew University. He is the author of Sockets of Fine Gold: The Kabbalah of R. Shim’on Lavi (2000) and of numerous articles on various themes in the history of Jewish mysticism. He is currently finishing a book about the reception history of the Zohar and is engaged in the study of contemporary Kabbalistic movements.
Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of many studies on Kabbalah and Hasidism, including Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1998), Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic (1995), and Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation (2002).
Frederick A. Lubich is Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Old Dominion University. He is the author and editor of five books, including studies of Thomas Mann, Max Frisch, and German literature and culture after 1945. His most recent publication is “Rafael Seligmann’s Der Musterjude: A Master Parody of German Jewish Führer Phantasies,” in German Studies Review, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May 2004), pp. 229–248. [End Page 217]
