Reviewers

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).

Kimmy Caplan teaches American Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University and is the author of Orthodoxy in the New World (in Hebrew, 2002). He is currently researching American Jewish Orthodox historiography.

Arnold Dashefsky, Director of the North American Jewish Data Bank, is Professor of Sociology and the founding Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He is currently completing a new book on Jewish charitable giving.

Bruce J. Evensen is Professor of Communication at DePaul University. He was a network news reporter, based in Jerusalem, in the 1980s. His book Truman, Palestine and the Press: Shaping Conventional Wisdom at the Beginning of the Cold War (1992) analyzes the role of public opinion in the creation of Israel.

Sander L. Gilman is at present the Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford; he will join the Emory University faculty in fall 2005 as Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences. His most recent book, with Zhou Xun, is SMOKE: a Global History of Smoking (2004).

Andrew Gordon, Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida, teaches contemporary American literature and film and Jewish-American fiction. His most recent book Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness (2003) is co-authored with the sociologist Hernan Vera.

David Graizbord is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at The University of Arizona. He is the author of Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580–1700 (2004).

Daniel Greene is the Posen Postdoctoral Associate in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. He is working on a book that examines Jewish intellectuals' role in framing the discourse of American pluralism in the twentieth century.

Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor Jewish History at Yeshiva University and was associate editor of American Jewish History for more than twenty years. His most recent work, Judaism's Encounter with American Sports, will be published in 2005 by Indiana University Press.

Frederic Jacobs is Professor of Education and Director of the Doctoral Program in the School of Education at American University. He is the co-author of Workforce Engagement: How to Encourage, Support, and Maintain Loyalty to the Organization, to be published in 2005.

Laurel Leff is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University. Her book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.

Marc Lee Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. For more than twenty years, he was editor of American Jewish History. He is currently writing a Diary of a Los Angeles Jew, 1942–1972.

Ofer Shiff is the head of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The revised English-language edition of his book Yehudim Mishtalvim (2001) is titled Survival Through Integration, American Reform Jewish Universalism During the Holocaust (2004).

Gerald Sorin is Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Jewish Studies Program at SUNY, New Paltz. His most recent book is Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent (2002).