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  • Contributors

Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is Professor of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. Her recent publications include: "Gender and Family Studies of the Holocaust: The Development of a Historical Discipline," in Life, Death and Sacrifice; Women and Family in the Holocaust, ed. Esther Hertzog (Jerusalem, 2008); Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and Collective Israeli Memory (Sede Boker, 2004) [Hebrew]; and Double Jeopardy: Gender and the Holocaust (London, 1998).

Esther Fuchs is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona. Her recent publications include: Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader (New Brunswick, 2005); Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman (Sheffield, 2000); and "Feminist Hebrew Literary Criticism: The Political Unconscious," Hebrew Studies, 48 (2007).

Itzhak Galnoor is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Institute. His recent publications include: Public Administration in Israel: Development, Structure, Functions and Reforms (Jerusalem, 2007) [Hebrew]; No, Mr. Commissioner: Behind the Scenes of Israeli Politics and Administration (Tel-Aviv, 2003) [Hebrew]; and The Partition of Palestine: Decision Crossroads in the Zionist Movement (New York, 1995).

As'ad Ghanem is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa. His recent publications include: Palestinian Politics after Arafat: The Predicament of a Failed National Movement (Bloomington, IN, 2009); Ethnic Politics in Israel—The Margins and the Ashkenazi Centre (London, 2009); and Palestinians in Israel: Indigenous Group Politics in the Jewish State (Ramallah, 2009) [Arabic].

Idit Gil is Lecturer in the MA Program for Democratic Studies at the Open University, Israel. Her articles; "Issues in the Study of Forced Labor under Nazi Rule," Bad Arolsen Transactions; and "The Presentation of Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust in Israeli History Classes, 1948–2008," Dor Le Dor: Studies in the History of Education in Israel and the Diaspora [Hebrew] will be published in the fall later this year. [End Page 231]

Daphna Hacker is Lecturer in the Buchmann Faculty of Law and in the NCJW Women and Gender Studies Program at Tel-Aviv University. Her recent publications include: "Motherhood, Fatherhood and Law: Child Custody in Israel," Social and Legal Studies, 14.3 (2005); "Active Parenthood and Employment Equal Opportunities: The Need to Change the Characteristics of the Labor Force," co-authored with Michal Frenkel, Labor, Society and Law, 11 (2005) [Hebrew]; and "Concepts of Motherhood, Fatherhood and Family in Israeli Courts: A Case Study," co-authored with Ronen Shamir, Israeli Sociology, 5.2 (2003) [Hebrew].

Philip Hollander is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature at Tulane University. His recent publications include: "Building Bridges Destined to Fall: Biological and Literary Paternity in Appelfeld's 'The Ice Mine'," in Arguing the Modern Jewish Canon, (eds) Justin Daniel Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubinstein (Boston, 2008); and "Beyond Martyrdom: Rereading Shamir's With His Own Hands," Hebrew Studies, 49 (2008).

Sveta Roberman is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her recent publications include: "Fighting to Belong: Soviet WWII Veterans in Israel," Ethos, 35.4 (2007); and Memory in Migration: WWII Red Army Soldiers in Israel (Jerusalem, 2005) [Hebrew].

Elisheva Rosman-Stollman teaches political science and conflict studies at Bar-Ilan University and Ashkelon Academic College. Her recent articles include: "Mediating Structures and the Military: The Case of Religious Soldiers," Armed Forces and Society, 34.4 (2008); and "Balancing Acts: The Gulf States and Israel," Middle Eastern Studies, 40.4 (2004).

Colin Shindler is Professor of Israeli Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His recent publications include: A History of Modern Israel (Cambridge, 2008); What Do Zionists Believe? (London, 2007); and The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right (London, 2006).

Asher Susser is Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern History and a Senior Fellow of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel-Aviv University. His recent publications include: (ed), Challenges [End Page 232] to the Cohesion of the Arab State (Tel-Aviv, 2008); (ed), Turkey and Israel: A Comparative Analysis (Tel-Aviv, 2008) [Hebrew]; and The Palestinians after Arafat's Rule (Tel-Aviv, 2005) [Hebrew].

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