Contributors
- Contributors
Alan Astro is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University in San Antonio. He has published articles on writers as diverse as Bashevis, Beckett, and Borges. He is the editor of Yiddish South of the Border: An Anthology of Latin American Yiddish Writing (2003) and Discourses of Jewish Identity in Twentieth-Century France (Yale French Studies 85 [1994]).
Amelia Glaser is Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she also teaches courses in comparative literature and Yiddish. She is the translator and coeditor (with David Weintraub) of Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005) and is currently completing a book about images of rural commerce in Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian literature.
Anna Wexler Katsnelson is a curator at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University and a Zacks Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at the Hebrew University. In 2007 she earned a Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University; her dissertation examined artistic strategies of resistance under socialist realism.
Shaul Kelner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. His recent publications include “From Shrine to Forum: Masada and the Politics of Jewish Extremism” (with Ted Sasson), Israel Studies 13, no. 2 (2008): 146–63, and “Who Is Being Taught? Jewish Early Childhood Education’s Adult-Centered Approach,” in Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice, ed. Jack Wertheimer (2007).
Maurice Samuels is Professor of French at Yale University. A specialist in nineteenth-century French literature, he is the author of The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (2004). He is currently completing a book on the first Jewish fiction writers in French.
Hamutal Tsamir teaches in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheva. She is the author of Beshem ha-nof: Leumiyut, subyektiviyut u-migdar be-shirat shnot ha-hamishim [End Page 173] ve-hashishim (In the Name of the Land: Nationalism, Subjectivity, and Gender in Israeli Poetry of the 1950s–1960s [2006]).
Steven Weitzman is Irving M. Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies and Director of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. A scholar of the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish culture, he is the author, most recently, of Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity (2005) and coauthor of The Jews: A History (2008). [End Page 174]
