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  • Contributors

Aviva Ben-Ur is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her forthcoming work, Remnant Stones: The Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogue of Suriname, co-authored with Rachel Frankel, is to be published by Hebrew Union College Press in 2005. She is currently working on a history of Sephardi and Mizrahi Jewry in the United States.

David Leonard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. His previous essays on sports, video games, film, and social movements, appearing in both academic and popular mediums, explore the political economy of popular culture.

Kristine Peleg is a member of the faculty in English and Women's Studies at Century College. She is the author of "Silent at the Wall: Women in Israeli Remembrance Day Ceremonies," in Susan Shifrin (ed.), Women As Sites of Culture: Women's Roles in Cultural Formation from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century.

Nina Warnke, Assistant Professor of Yiddish at the University of Austin in Texas, is currently working on a book about New York Yiddish theater, its critics, and the press. Among her recent publications is "The Child Who Wouldn't Grow Up: Yiddish Theatre and its Critics," in Joel Berkowitz (ed.), Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches.

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Jo Ann E. Argersinger is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University. Her most recent book is Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939 (1999).

Sarah Bunin Benor is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. Her research has focused on the speech of Orthodox Jews in America, as well as other Jewish languages.

Ann Braude is Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer in American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent book is Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers: Women Who Changed American Religion (2004). [End Page v]

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