Contributors to this Issue

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Howard Tzvi Adelman was Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Smith College and is now an instructor in Jewish Studies at Achva Academic College in Beer Tuvia, Israel. His area of expertise is early modern Jewish history, especially matters of gender, family, childhood, and community. Amy Avgar is a sociologist and Executive Director of the Israel Association for the Advancement of Women's Health. Elyssa Ben-Naim is a rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Hanita Brand holds a doctorate in Arabic and Hebrew Literature from Columbia University. She has taught Arabic at Columbia University and Hebrew literature at the University of Pennsylvania, and she now teaches Arabic literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. David Ellenson is President and LH. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought at HUC-JIR. Steven Fine is Associate Professor of Rabbinic Literature and History at Baltimore Hebrew University. His primary methodological interest is the interrelationship between literary texts and material culture for the interpretation of ancient Judaism. Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She has previously taught at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and at Syracuse University. Her book Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (Stanford University Press, 2000) received the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. Deborah Greniman is Managing Editor ofNashim and Associate Editor in the Publications Department at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is completing a graduate degree in Women's and Gender Studies and Judaism at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. TaI Ilan holds a doctorate in Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has published three books on Jewish women in Late Antiquity. She currently teaches at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, and she has also been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and the universities of Berlin and Frankfurt. Omi [Morgenstern Leissner] holds an LL.M degree from the Hebrew 289 Contributors University and another LL.M. and a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies from Columbia University, New York. She is currently writing her doctorate on "The Right to Birth with Dignity" through Bar-Ilan University , and she has published several articles on women's names. Amia Lieblich is Professor of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her books on the psychology of Israeli society include Tin Soldiers on Jerusalem Beach and Kibbutz Makom. Her recent work focuses on the psychobiography of creative women, and she has published books on Israeli writer Dvora Baron and poet Leah Goldberg. Rochelle L. Milien is Professor of Religion at Wittenberg University, Ohio. The editor of New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guidefor Scholars and Teachers (NYU Press, 1996), she has published numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of women and halakhah, Jewish-Christian relations, and post-Holocaust theology. Currently, she is completing a volume on halakhic sources relating to women and life-cycle events. Claudia Prestel is a lecturer in Jewish History at the University of Leicester . She has published widely on women's studies and on German Jewish social history. Sarah Schmidt received her doctorate in American Studies at the University of Maryland and taught there for several years before emigrating to Israel in 1982. Currently she is a Senior Lecturer in the Schools for Overseas Students at Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities, where she teaches a range of courses in Zionist and Modern Jewish History. Shulamit Valler, who holds a master's degree in law and a doctorate in Talmud, teaches Jewish History at the University of Haifa. Her book, Women and Womanhood in the Talmud, was published by Brown Judaic Press in 1999. 290 ...