Contributors to This Issue

VI SHOFAR Winter 2001 Vol. 19, No.2 Contributors to This Issue David Benatar teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Ruth Birnbaum is a retired faculty member of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications on medieval and modem Jewish philosophy, history, and religion have appeared in various scholarly journals, including Shofar, Judaism, Modern Age, Hibbert Journal, The Personalist, and several others. Her monograph on "Joseph ibn Shem Tov's Kevod Elohim (The Glory ofGod)" is scheduled to be published by The Edwin Mellen Press. Andrew Buckser is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Purdue University. He is the author of a number of I studies on Danish religion and culture, including Communities ofFaith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island (Providence: Berghahn, 1996). He is currently conducting an ethnographic study ofthe Jewish community of Copenhagen. Dr. Buckser received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1993. Barry R. Chiswick is Research Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Chiswick has published extensively on issues related to immigration and racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and Israel, among other countries. His research on the economic status and labor market activities of American Jewry has been published in the leading economics journals, including the Review ofEconomics andStatistics, the Journal ofHuman Resources, the Journal oflabor Economics, and Explorations in Economic History. It has also been published in Jewish Studies periodicals, including The American Jewish Year Book, Papers in Jewish Demography, and Contemporary Jewry, as well as in conference volumes. Rivca Gordon is Director of the Foundation for Democratic Education in Israel and a freelance philosopher. Among her publications is Sartre and Evil, co-authored with Haim Gordon. Contributors VII Marvin J. Heller, an independent scholar, writes on Hebrew bibliography andprinting. His most recent book is Printing the Talmud: A History ofthe Individual Treatises Printedfrom 1700 to I750 (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1999). Efraim Sieher teaches British and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. A graduate ofLondon University, Professor Sicher did his doctoral work at Oxford and held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. His previous publications include books and essays on a wide range of topics in modem Jewish culture, as well as English and comparative literature. His collection of essays on Holocaust memory, Breaking Crystal: Writing and Memory after Auschwitz, appeared in 1998. ...