Contributors
- Contributors
Eugene M. Avrutin received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2004 and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Colby College. He is working on his first monograph, A Legible People: Identification Politics and Jewish Accommodation in Tsarist Russia.
Yaron Ben-Naeh is a postdoctoral Mandel scholar in the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies and teaches in the History of the Jewish People Department at the Hebrew University. He is the author of two books, both forthcoming in Hebrew: Ottoman Jewry in the Seventeenth Century and (with J. R. Hacker) The Communal and Rabbinic Legislation of Jews in the Ottoman Empire, 15th–19th Centuries.
Shlomo Deshen is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. He has engaged in field work among North African immigrants in Israel and among physically disabled people. Some of his work has a historical emphasis, based on the study of rabbinical treatises.
Jonathan M. Hess is Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also serves as Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity (2002) and Reconstituting the Body Politic: Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy (1999). His current research investigates German-Jewish popular culture from the 1830s to World War I.
Joshua M. Karlip is a doctoral candidate in Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He currently holds a Center for Jewish History Fellowship for the 2005–2006 academic year. He is completing work on his doctoral dissertation, "At the Crossroads: A Case Study of Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, and Yiddishism, 1905–1940."
Matthias B. Lehmann is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies, with a focus on Sephardi history and culture, at Indiana University, Bloomington. He earned his doctorate from Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (forthcoming in 2005) and is currently working on a project on the Sephardi Diaspora in the Eighteenth Century. [End Page 231]
Jonathan Ray is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Sephardic Studies and Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2003. His book, The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.
Reuven Snir is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Haifa. His most recent book is Arviyut, Yahadut, Ziyonut: Maavak Zehuyot ba-Yezira shel Yehudei Iraq (2005). He is also a translator of Arabic poetry into Hebrew and Hebrew poetry into Arabic. [End Page 232]
