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Stephen H. Norwood is Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His most recent publication is Real Football: Conversations on America's Game. He is co-editor (with Professor Eunice G. Pollack) of the Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, which will be published in 2007. Professor Norwood is currently working on a book on the responses by American universities to Nazism. His article, "Marauding Youth and the Christian Front: Antisemitic Violence in Boston and New York During World War II," appeared in the June 2003 issue of American Jewish History.

Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. and Belle Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, and chairs the Academic Advisory and Editorial Board of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Among his more than twenty works in American Jewish history, as both author and editor, is American Judaism: A History.

Sarah Schmidt received her Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Maryland. Since 1982, she has been living in Israel, teaching in the Schools for Overseas Students at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities. She is the author of Horace M. Kallen: Prophet of American Zionism, and is currently working on a more extended biography of Kallen as a precursor of today's liberal, secular, Zionist, and intermarried Jews.

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Jeanne Abrams is Associate Professor and Director of the Beck Archives and Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society at Penrose Library and the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver. Her most recent book, Opening New Doors: The Jewish Women's Experience in the American West, 1850-1930, will be published by New York University Press in 2006.

Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of America Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University, where she also co-directs the Spencer Program in Educational Research. She is the author of The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America (1998).

Benjamin Maria Baader is Assistant Professor of European History and Jewish History at the University of Manitoba. His book Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870, is scheduled for publication in 2006 by Indiana University Press.

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