About Our Contributors

VI SHOFAR Fa1l1998 Vol. 17, No.1 About Our Contributors Zachary Baker has served as Head Librarian ofthe YIVO Institute for Jewish Research since 1987. Among his publications are: "Eastern European 'Jewish Geography': Some Problems and Suggestions," Toledot, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 9-14; "More Eastern European 'Jewish Geography'," Toledot, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 2-5; and "Bibliography of Eastern European Memorial Books," and "Geographical Index and Gazetteer," in From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books ofPolish Jewry, edited and translated by Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin (Schocken Books, 1983; 2nd ed. Indiana University Press, 1998). Neil G. Jacobs is Associate Professor in the Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies Program ofthe Department ofGermanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. His primary areas of research and publication are in Yiddish linguistics. Lindsay Jones, a historian of religions, as an associate professor in the Division of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at the Ohio State University. Among his publications are Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment ofTula and Chichen Itza (University Press ofColorado, 1995) and The Hermeneutics ofSacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Robert D. King holds the Rapoport Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin with appointments in Linguistics, Germanic Studies, and Asian Studies. He has published extensively on theoretical and historical linguistics, on the politics of language, on the history of Yiddish and German, and on India. His books include Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar (1969) and Nehru and the Language Politics ofIndia (1997). Alan Levenson's essays on German-Jewry, modem Jewish thought, and pedagogy have appeared in Jewish Social Studies, The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, Studies in Zionism, The Journal ofReform Judaism, and Shofar. He has recently completed a manuscript titled "Modem Jewish Thinkers: A User's Manual." Dagmar C. G. Lorenz is Professor ofGerman at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studied in Gottingen and received a Ph.D. in German (1974) and and M.A. in English (1975) from the University ofCincinnati. She taught at Rutgers University and the Ohio State University. Her teaching and research interests include 19th and 20thcentury Austrian, German-Jewish, and women's literature. Her most recent book publications are Veifolgung bis zum Massenmord: Diskurse zum Holocaust in deutscher Sprache (1992), Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Contributors VB Austria, edited with Gabriele We~berger (1993), and Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers (1997). Samuel A. Meier, Associate Professor of Hebrew at the Ohio State University, is the author of The Messenger in the Ancient Semitic World (1988) and Speaking of Speaking: Marking Direct Discourse in the Hebrew Bible (1992). Rochelle L. Millen is Associate Professor of Religion at Wittenberg University. The author ofarticles in the areas ofJudaism and modem thought and women and halakhah, she is the editor of New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars (New York University Press, 1996). She is presently writing a book on Jewish women and life-cycle events for University Press of New England. Professor Millen received the Ph.D. in Religious Studies from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and in 1995 received the Samuel Belkin Distinguished Professional Achievement Award from Yeshiva University, her undergraduate alma mater. Ira M. Sheskin is Associate Professor of Geography and a member of the Judaic Studies faculty at the University of Miami. He serves on the Council of Jewish Federations' National Technical Advisory Committee and has completed Jewish demographic studies for 18 Jewish Federations throughout the country. He organizes sessions annually on Jewish geography at the national meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Lee Shai Weissbach is Professor ofHistory at the University ofLouisville. Among his recent publications are The Synagogues ofKentucky: Architecture and History (1995), "Studying the Era of Emancipation: The State ofFranco-Jewish Local History," Shofar (Spring 1996), and "East European Immigrants and the Image of Jews in the SmallTown South," American Jewish History (September 1997). Paul Wexler teaches in the Department of Linguistics of Tel-Aviv University and works in the areas of historical linguistics, bilingualism, Jewish languages (including Modem Hebrew), Slavic linguistics, Creole linguistics, and Romani (Gypsy). His major publications include Relexification in...