Contributors
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Jack Fischel is Professor Emeritus of History at Millersville University and a Visiting Professor of Humanities at Messiah College. He is the author of a number of books on the Holocaust and has written on aspects of Jewish history and culture for such publications as Virginia Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, the Forward, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Hadassah Magazine, among many others.
Jay Howard Geller is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is currently writing a study of the German Jewish bourgeoisie from emancipation through the Holocaust as seen through the experience of the Scholem family.
Michael Lee is a doctoral candidate in American History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He would like to thank his parents, Sara Berger, Jeanne Abrams, Rebecca Hunt, Thomas Andrews, and the wonderful staff at the Denver Public Library, Western History Collection.
Richard G. Marks is Professor of Religious Studies at Washington and Lee University, where he teaches courses on Judaism, death and dying, theology of the Shoah, and religious dimensions of travel. He is author of The Image of Bar Kokhba in Traditional Jewish Literature: False Messiah and National Hero (Penn State Press, 1994), "Hindus and Hinduism in Medieval Jewish Literature," "The Garden in the Middle" in Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha, "Abraham, the Easterners, and India: Jewish Interpretations of Genesis 25:6," and other articles.
Andrew J. Ploeg is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Rhode Island. He has presented critical essays at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference, the Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, and at the Studies in Cultural Meaning Conference in Chantilly, [End Page vii] France, among others. In addition, he is currently working on his dissertation, entitled Becoming Undecidable: Conceptualizing the Numinous Through Space, Movement, and Novelty, which focuses on postmodern literature and theory.
Norman Simms, recently retired as Associate Professor from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand, continues his affiliation as a Research Associate. He is also an Associate of the Centre for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His latest book will be the first in a series on Alfred Dreyfus: Man, Mileiu, Mentality and Midrash (Academic Studies Press). The journal Mentalities/Mentalités, which he helped found and has maintained for nearly thirty years, just published its final number.
Lissa Skitolsky is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Susquehanna University. Her research in the fields of Continental philosophy, political science and genocide studies aims to interrogate our cultural and political responses to mass violence. She has published journal articles and book reviews in International Studies in Philosophy, Lessons and Legacies, and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. [End Page viii]
