Contributors to This Issue
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Morris M. Faierstein, Ph.D., is an independent scholar. He is the author or editor of seven books and more than 100 scholarly articles and reviews. Among his books are Jewish Mystical Autobiographies: Book of Visions and Book of Secrets (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Paulist Press, 1999) and Sefer Hezyonot: Yoman ha-Mysti shel Rabbi Hayyim Vital (Ben Zvi Institute, 2005).
Jacob Haberman earned his doctorate from Columbia University, where he specialized in the Philosophy of Religion and Middle East Languages and Cultures, and received his rabbinical ordination (Semichah) from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary affiliated with Yeshiva University. He also obtained a J.D. degree from New York Law School and is active in the real estate and construction business. Dr. Haberman has contributed essays to the Jewish Quarterly Review, the Journal of Jewish Studies, Judaism, Tradition, Bitzaron, and other learned periodicals and is the author of more than fifty articles in the sixteen-volume Encyclopedia Judaica. His previous publications include Maimonides and Aquinas: A Contemporary Appraisal.
Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan chairs the graduate program in Culture and Film Studies, Humanities Faculty, University of Haifa. She also teaches history and cinema in the Department of Television and Cinematic Art, Sapir Academic College. Her research examines the cinema's influence on viewers' historical knowledge and the cultural and social discourse on the representation of history in cinema. Among her numerous research works are articles on the Holocaust experience as a colossal cinematic event, its presence in western culture and representation in Israeli cinema and history, and her recent book, May God have Mercy on Your Soul: The Death Penalty in the USA: History, Law and Cinema. A fellow at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, Kozlovsky-Golan holds the Baron Friedrich Carl Von Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Anti Semitism, and the Holocaust Founded by the Von Oppenheim Family of Cologne. She is also a senior member and a co-editor [End Page vii] of the quarterly magazine of the Israel Writers' Union and a columnist for the daily Ma'ariv newspaper, Tel Aviv.
Heidi Heft LaPorte is an Associate Professor at Lehman College teaching in both the undergraduate and graduate school of social work. Her research interests include single system design and program evaluation research, HIV education in public schools, domestic violence, and Jewish continuity and community in Cuba.
Randolph Lewis is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America (2000) and Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (2006). In addition to co-editing a book series on indigenous media for the University of Nebraska Press, he is the co-producer of the documentary film Texas Tavola: A Taste of Sicily in the Lone Star State (2007).
Alan T. Levenson is Schusterman Professor of Jewish History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of: Between Philosemitism and Antisemitism: German Defenses of Jews and Judaism (University of Nebraska Press, 2004); An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); The Story of Joseph: A Journey of Jewish Interpretation (William & Mary, 2006); and The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).
Andrea Levine is an independent scholar in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in MELUS, American Literature, and Racial )Trans(Formations: Asians and Latinos Remaking the United States (Duke University Press). An essay entitled, "'In His Own Home': Gendering the African American Domestic Sphere in Contemporary Culture," appears in the June 2011 issue of Women's Studies Quarterly. Dr. Levine has taught courses in Jewish American literature, popular culture, women's studies, and writing at George Washington University.
Leslie Stein, a senior research fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, is the author of The Hope Fulfilled: The Rise of Modern Israel (Praeger Press 2003) and The Making of Modern Israel, 1948-1949 (Polity Press Cambridge 2009). Between 2003 and 2006 he was chief editor of the Praeger Press Series on Israeli and Jewish Studies. Currently he is working on a sequel to his latest book to be entitled Tears of Joy Tears of Sorrow: Israel Since the...
