Contributors to This Issue

Joseph A. Edelheit, D.Min., is the Director of Jewish Studies and the Office of Jewish Communal Activities and Resources at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He is the Director of Living India, a multifaith NGO engaged in the global HIV-AIDS pandemic.

Samuel M. Edelman is a professor of Jewish and Holocaust Studies as well as rhetoric and Communication Studies. He is the founder of the program in Modern Jewish and Israel Studies at the California State University, Chico in Northern California and its current director. Edelman is also the coordinator of the California State University Statewide Modern Jewish Studies B.A. Degree. He is also Co-director with Carol Edelman of the State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance.

Carol Edelman has been on the academic staff of CSU, Chico since 1981. She is currently the Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and a Professor of Sociology and Holocaust Studies. She is also Co-director with Sam Edelman of the State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights and Tolerance.

Zev Garber is Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Los Angeles Valley College and has served as Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at the University of California at Riverside and as President of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. In the spring of 2005 he is serving as Rosenthal Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University. Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in the Shoah series (UPA) and Co-Editor of Shofar. His publications include Methodology in the Academic Teaching of Judaism; Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust; Shoah: the Paradigmatic Genocide; Peace, In Deed; Academic Approaches to Teaching Jewish Studies; and Post-Shoah Dialogues: Rethinking Our Texts Together (with Steven Jacobs, Henry Knight, and James Moore), and Double Takes: Thinking and Rethinking Issues of Modern Judaism in Ancient Contexts (with Bruce Zuckerman).

John Charles Goshert is Assistant Professor of English at Utah Valley State College, where he teaches courses in critical theory and contemporary American literature. He is currently completing a book, Other Possible Identities: Minor Literatures and Marginal Canons, which focuses on Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, Sarah Schulman, and processes of canon formation in minority literatures.

Klaus Hödl is at the Center for Jewish Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz/Austria; his research interests include East European Jewry, Antisemitism, and concepts of Jewish identity. Among his recent books are: Die Pathologisierung des jüdischen Körpers. Antisemitismus, Geschlecht und Medizin im Fin de Siècle (Wien, 1997), Jüdische Identitäten. Einblicke in die Bewusstseinslandschaft des österreichischen Judentums (editor) (Innsbruck, 2000), "Gesunde Juden, kranke Schwarze": Körperbilder im medizinischen Diskurs (Innsbruck, 2002), Jüdische Studien: Reflexionen zu Theorie und Praxis eines wissenschaftlichen Feldes (editor) (Innsbruck, 2003), and Historisches Bewusstsein im jüdischen Kontext. Strategien – Aspekte – Diskurse (editor) (Innsbruck, 2004).

Steven Leonard Jacobs holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, where he is also Associate Professor of Religious Studies. A graduate of both Penn State University and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, his primary research foci are post-Holocaust Biblical Re-interpretation (Hebrew Bible and New Testament); issues of translation; and Holocaust and genocide studies. His most recent publications include Dismantling the Big Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (2004; with Mark Weitzman); Post-Shoah Dialogues (2004; with James Moore, Henry Knight, and Zev Garber); and Teaching the Holocaust: College and University Educators (2004; edited with Samuel Totten and Paul Bartrop).

James Moore is Professor of Theology at Valparaiso University. He is the author of Sexuality and Marriage (Augsburg/Fortress Press, 1987), Christian Theology after the Shoah (University Press of America, 1993, 2004), Post-Shoah Dialogues: Re-thinking Our Texts Together, with Steven Jacobs, Henry Knight, and Zev Garber (University Press...