Contributors
- Contributors
Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the chair of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry and Associate Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to the Holocaust, Gender, Memory, State of Israel, and Commemoration. Among her books are Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell 1998), and Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and Collective Israeli Memory (Heb.) (Sde Boker, 2004).
Ranen Omer-Sherman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami and coeditor of The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches (2008). His previous essays have appeared in academic journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, Prooftexts, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Shofar, Journal of Modern Literature, MELUS, and Modernism/Modernity. His books include Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert (2006) and Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, Roth (2002).
Hana Taragan is the Head of the Department of Art History, Faculty of the Arts at the Tel Aviv University. Her fields of research and interest focus on Islamic Art and Architecture. She has published a book Art and Patronage at the Umayyad palace in Jericho (Hebrew) as well as many articles on Umayyad and on early Mamluk architecture in Palestine. She has recently engaged with colonialist architecture in Cairo, in particular with the synagogues built during the French and the British colonialist rule. [End Page iv]
