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  • Contributors

Ayala Fader is associate professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Women’s Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning book, Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (2009).

Shaul Kelner is associate professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, and Director of Vanderbilt’s Program in Jewish Studies. He is the author of Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage and Israeli Birthright Tourism (2010).

Riv-Ellen Prell, an anthropologist, is professor of American Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation (1999) and editor of Women Remaking American Judaism (2007), among other works.

Chava Weissler is Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Religion Studies Department at Lehigh University. She is the author of Voices of the Matriarchs (1998), and is completing a study of the Jewish Renewal movement in North America.

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Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. She is writing a book on radical feminism and Jewish identity.

Caitlin Carenen is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her most recent book is The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel (2012).

Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. His most recent book is The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War (2013).

Michael Hoberman is an associate professor of American literature at Fitchburg State University. He is the author, most recently, of New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America (2011).

Brad Ricca is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster—The Creators of Superman (2013).

Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Irving Lehrman Research Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Walter and Sarah Schlesinger Dean of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. [End Page v]

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