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  • Contributors

Allan Arkush is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at SUNY-Binghamton. He is the author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment (1994) and is currently working on a book on the Enlightenment and the Jews.

Jay Berkovitz is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also directs the Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author of The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France (1989) and numerous articles on French Jewry in the revolutionary era. A volume of the letters of Rabbi Salomon Ulmann which he has edited is to be published by the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History.

George M. Goodwin has written and lectured on Frank Lloyd Wright, synagogue architecture, Holocaust memorials, and other aspects of American Jewish history. Currently, he is helping to plan Heritage Harbor, a new history museum in Rhode Island. A specialist in oral history research, he is also the archivist of Temple Beth-El in Providence.

Lawrence Kaplan is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Jewish Philosophy at McGill University, Montreal. He has recently co-edited (together with David Shatz) and contributed to Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality (1995).

Stephen J. Whitfield holds the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. His American Space, Jewish Time: Essays in Modern Culture and Politics appeared in a paperback edition in 1996.

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