Contributors
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Vincent Brook teaches at UCLA, USC, Cal State Los Angeles, and Pierce College, and has authored or edited five books, most recently Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles (2013) and Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen (co-editor, 2013).
Dan Chyutin is a Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Cultural Studies and Film at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on the intersection between religion and film, and specifically on contemporary Israeli cinema’s negotiations of Judaism and Judaic identity. He has essays published or forthcoming in the anthologies Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion and Media and Translation and in the journals Cinema Journal and Jewish Film & New Media. His work has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship and a Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Doctoral Scholarship. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, American University (DC), Tel Aviv University, The Open University of Israel, and Sapir Academic College.
Victoria Khiterer is Assistant Professor of History at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. She is Director of the Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide. Khiterer holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University (2008) and a Ph.D. in Russian Jewish History from the Russian State University in Humanities, Moscow (1996). Her area of specialization is Modern Russian and Eastern European Jewish history. She is the author of two books about Kiev archival collections in Jewish history and over eighty articles on antisemitism, Jewish pogroms and the Holocaust, the political, economic, and cultural history of Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and Ukraine. She is editor of The Holocaust: Memories and History (2014). The book was selected as the August 2014 Book of the Month by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dan Shiffman is a secondary English teacher at Tashkent International School in Uzbekistan. He previously taught at Shippensburg University, Osaka International School, and Berry College. Shiffman’s recent articles on multicultural literature and pedagogy have appeared in such journals as Multicultural Perspectives, The IB Journal of Teaching Practice, Philip Roth Studies, [End Page 145] and African-American Review. He is currently completing a book about encounters with education in modern Jewish American literature.
Izabela Zieba is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Miami, working as an adjunct at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She specializes in contemporary American literature, with a particular interest in multiethnic authors and food studies. Her current research focuses on the notions of homeland tourism and dark tourism in Jewish American and Cuban American fiction. [End Page 146]
