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  • Contributors

Alan T. Levenson is Professor of Jewish History at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland and the author of Modern Jewish Thinkers: An Introduction (2000).

Mark K. Bauman is editor of Southern Jewish History, co-editor (with Berkley Kahn) of Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights (1997), guest editor of three special issues of American Jewish History (1989; September/ December 1997 [with Bobbie S. Malone]), and author of Harry H. Epstein and the Rabbinate as Conduit for Change (1994).

Riv-Ellen Prell, an anthropologist, is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism (1989) and Fighting to Become American Jews: Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation (1999).

Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Irving Lehrman Research Assistant Professor of American Jewish History and Dean of the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the author of The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the Jewish Encyclopedia (1991) and is now working on a book on the image and role of the rebbetzin in American Jewish life.

Karla Goldman is Historian in Residence at the Jewish Women's Archive and author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (2000).

Pamela S. Nadell is Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University and Chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. Her new book, American Jewish Women's History: A Reader, will be published in 2003.

Leon A. Jick is Professor Emeritus of American Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Americanization of the Synagogue. 1820-1870 (1976) , a volume of essays and lectures, In Search of a Way (1966), and an edited volume on The Teaching of Judaica in American Universities (1970). He was the founding president of the Association for Jewish Studies (1969-71).

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