Contributors to This Volume

John Arnold has instructed German language and literature at Alma College since 1977. In recent years he has investigated and presented papers on the state of German- Polish-Czech affairs, the reemergence of the German minority community in the Czech Republic and Poland, and the concept of service learning, as realized in the Wroc_aw Cemetery Project. He has received internal funding to research the present circum stances of the Jewish community in Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In 2000 he participated in a seminar for German students and educators through the Jewish Cultural Center in Kraków. In 2001, he was a participant in the Summer Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. During the summer of 2003, he was a participant in the Eastern European Study Seminar through the Holocaust Educational Foundation and has recently introduced a course on the Holocaust, its Origin and Lesson at Alma College.

Zev bar-Lev received a Ph.D. in linguistics at Indiana University in 1969. He has taught at Syracuse University (1969-73), Ben Gurion University in the Negev (1972-78), UCLA and USC (Visiting Scholar, 1978-79), and is currently at San Diego State Univesity. His early publications were in various fields of linguistic theory (phonology/morphology, syntax, discourse, computers); more recently he has published on his innovative method for teaching foreign languages, including Hebrew. His workshops, "Speak a New language," are given monthly at the Learning Annex, and his "mini-course" booklets in 20 languages are available from the Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University.

Tony Brinkley teaches English at the University of Maine. A collection of his poems, Stalin's Eyes, will appear later this year from Puckerbrush Press.

Martin Edelman is Professor of Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany (New York). He is the author of Democratic Theories and the Constitution (1984) and Courts, Politics, and Culture in Israel (1994), as well as articles and chapters on American constitutional law and Israeli courts in professional publications. Professor Edelman has been a visiting professor at the University of Liverpool (England), at Tel Aviv University (Israel), and at Peking University (China). He has served on the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies since 1979, and was the chair/convener from 1991 to 1997.

Raina Kostova is completing work for her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Emory University.

Arlene Lazarowitz received her Ph.D. in United States political history and foreign policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1982. She has taught at California State University, Long Beach, since 1984, where she is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program and the coordinator for the Social Science Secondary Credential. Her publications are in twentieth-century United States foreign policy and political history.

Sara Mandell is Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Her publications include The Jewish People in Classical Antiquity: From Alexander to Bar Kochba (co-authored with John Haynes, Westminster/John Knox, 1998) and The Relationship Between Herodotus' History and Primary History (co-authored with David Noel Freedman, Scholars Press, 1993), in addition to articles and reviews in Harvard Theological Review, Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The Second Century, Journal of Ritual Studies, The Ancient World, and Classical Bulletin.

David Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Memphis. He has published more than one hundred articles in a variety of journals dealing with a variety of topics. A winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award, Dr. Patterson has written numerous books, including Along the Edge of Annihilation, Sun Turned to Darkness, Greatest Jewish Stories, When Learned Men Murder, Exile, Pilgrimage of a Proselyte, The Shriek of Silence, In Dialogue and Dilemma (with Elie Wiesel), and others. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature and translator of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry.

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