Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Erlewine is associate professor of Religious Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author of Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reason (2010) and has written several articles on modern Jewish thought.
Alexander Even-Chen (PhD Hebrew University; Rabbinical Ordination at Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies) is the author of A Voice from the Darkness: Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Phenomenology and Mysticism (1999); The Binding of Isaac: Mystical and Philosophical Interpretations of The Bible (2006); and with Ephraim Meir, Between Heschel and Buber: A Comparative Study (2012).
Gil Graff holds a JD and PhD in history from UCLA, in addition to graduate degrees in education and Jewish studies. He serves as executive director of BJE: Builders of Jewish Education in Los Angeles. Graff has authored two books and numerous articles focusing on the encounter of Jews and Judaism with modernity, including ‘‘Modernity, Judaism and Jews,’’ in the recently published Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies (2013).
Stephen Katz is professor of modern Hebrew literature in the Borns Jewish Studies Program and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington. He has written several studies on S. Y. Agnon, Moshe Shamir, and Ben Avigdor. His recent publications, including a book-length study, Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature (2010), have been about American Hebraists and their representation of Native and African American cultures. He is currently studying the Holocaust and its early literary responses.
Shira Kupfer is a PhD candidate in the Division of Government and Political Theory, at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel.
Leona Toker is professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among her many publications are: Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors (2000); Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (2010); and articles on English, American, and Russian literature. She is the editor of Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy (1994) [End Page 268] and coeditor of Rereading Texts/Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H.M. Daleski (1996), as well as of Knowledge and Pain (2012). She is the founder and editor of Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Asaf Turgeman is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College as well as in the Division of Government and Political Theory, School of Political Sciences, at the University of Haifa, Israel. His research interests are cultural criticism, public discourse, and political myths. [End Page 269]
