Contributors
- Contributors
ZEV ELEFF is a doctoral candidate at Brandeis University. He has published a number of books and more than a dozen scholarly articles in the area of American Jewish history. His dissertation research centers on religious authority in American Judaism during the nineteenth century. Eleff’s publications include an edited volume, Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (2008); and Living from Convention to Convention: A History of the NCSY, 1954-1980 (2009).
AVIAD YEHIEL HOLLANDER wrote his doctoral thesis on the halakhic rulings of Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the founder of the Israeli army rabbinate. He has taught courses in Bar-Ilan University and in Orot Israel College, dealing with the conflict between Halakha and the State of Israel, in general, and the Israeli military in particular.
ALEXANDER KAYE is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research focuses on Jewish intellectual and legal history, and particularly on the thought of religious Zionists in the twentieth century. He co-edited, with David N. Myers, The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History (2014).
MATAN ORAM holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He currently serves as a senior lecturer at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, where he teaches political philosophy and other courses in political theory and the politics of Israel. Oram is also a fellow of The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute–dedicated to the academic study of philosophy, society, and culture. He is the author of The Hope of Enlightenment: Critical Thought and Political Theory in the Philosophy of Jüergen Habermas (Hebrew).
TOMER PERSICO teaches in the department for Comparative Religion at Tel-Aviv University and at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem. His doctoral dissertation, dealing with techniques of meditation in the Jewish tradition (past and present), and analyzing the cultural transformations leading to shifts in meditative emphasis, will be published as a book by Tel Aviv University Press. His fields of study are contemporary spirituality, Jewish Renewal and forms of secularization. [End Page 374]
DANIEL REISER (PhD Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Post-Doctoral Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, working on publishing a critical and annotated edition of Rabbi Klonimus Kalmish Shapira’s sermons during the Holocaust (known as the Esh Kodesh). He is also a Matanel fellow in the department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches Hasidic philosophy. He is the author of Vision as a Mirror: Imagery Techniques in Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism (2014). His Hebrew translation of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Yiddish book, Kotsk: In Gerangl far Emesdikayt, is forthcoming. [End Page 375]
