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Contributors

Zev Eleff is a doctoral candidate at Brandeis University. He obtained rabbinical ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University and has published more than a dozen scholarly articles in the field of American Jewish history.

Jessica Cooperman is an assistant professor of Religion Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Muhlenberg College. She is working on a book about Jewish soldiers’ welfare services during World War I and the evolution of religious pluralism in the United States.

Michael Hoberman teaches American literature at Fitchburg State University and is the author of New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America (UMASS Press, 2011). He is currently conducting research on the implications of the American Revolution for Jewish American families.

Nadia Malinovich holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan. She is associate professor of Amercian Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne and also teaches modern Jewish history at Sciences-Po, Paris. She is the author of French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008).

Andrea Pappas is associate professor, Art History, at Santa Clara University (http://www.scu.edu/cas/art/faculty/Andrea-Pappas.cfm). She has published on Jewish art, modern American art and the art market, and women artists.

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Miriam Sanua Dalin is a professor in the Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Dana Herman is academic associate at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and serves as managing editor of its semi-annual periodical, The American Jewish Archives Journal. She recently edited the volume, Sisterhood: A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism, with Carole B. Balin, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Gary P. Zola (2013).

Elizabeth H. Pleck is professor emerita of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent book is Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution (2012). [End Page v]

Ari F. Sclar is an adjunct professor at Hunter College and teaches history at the Ramaz Upper School in New York City. His doctoral dissertation (SUNY Stonybrook) about the history of Jews in basketball is entitled “A Sport at which Jews Excel”: Jewish Basketball in American Society, 1900–1951.”

Lauren B. Strauss received her Ph.D. in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary and has taught at the George Washington University since 2007. She is also Director of the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Rockville, MD. Her forthcoming book is entitled: Painting the Town Red: Jewish Visual Artists, Yiddish Culture, and Progressive Politics in Interwar New York.

Kenneth D. Wald is distinguished professor of Political Science and the Samuel R. Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida. His most recent book is Religion and Politics in the United States (7th ed., 2014).

Harold S. Wechsler is a professor of education at New York University. Transaction Publishers recently issued a second, updated edition of The Qualified Student: A History of Selective College Admission (2014). [End Page vi]

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