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  • Contributors to This Issue

Natalia Aleksiun is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Touro College, New York, and Assistant Professor of Modern History in the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She studied Polish and Jewish history at Warsaw University, the Graduate School of Social Studies in Warsaw, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York University. Her articles have been published in Yad Vashem Studies, Polish Review, Dapim, East European Jewish Affairs, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Polin, Gal Ed, East European Societies and Politics and German History. She is working on a book about the “cadaver affair” at European universities in the 1920s and 1930s. naleksiun@yahoo.com

Gali Drucker Bar-Am teaches Yiddish literature at Tel Aviv University and is a post-doctoral I-CORE fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research centers on modern Yiddish culture in Israel. gali.druckerbar@mail.huji.ac.il

Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of Management, Rishon LeZion. Her most recent publications are her book, Democracy and Feminism: Gender, Citizenship, and Human Rights (Hebrew; Open University of Israel, 2011); The Family in Israel a (double) special issue of Israel Studies Review, co-edited with Reina Rutlinger-Reiner (2013) and Private and Public: Women in the Kibbutz and the Moshav, co-edited with Rachel Sharaby (Hebrew; Magnes, 2013). sylvieb@colman.ac.il

Sharon Geva is a lecturer in the Department of History at the Kibbutzim College of Education, and gives invited courses in the Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are women in the Holocaust, the Holocaust and gender, Holocaust commemoration in Israeli society, women survivors of the Holocaust and the history of Israeli women. Her book To the Unknown Sister: Holocaust Heroines in Israeli Society (Hebrew; Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2010) was awarded a prize by the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem, and she received a research award from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. geva.sharon@gmail.com

Idit Gil is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the Open University of Israel, in the M.A. program in Democratic Studies. She has published several articles on the Holocaust and Israeli society. In 2011, she was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is currently researching the labor experiences throughout the war of a transport of Jewish laborers from Radom, Poland, a study supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation. iditgi@openu.ac.il [End Page 184]

Rachael Kamel is a doctoral candidate in the Religion Department of Temple University, focusing on Jewish cultural studies. Before entering graduate school, she was an activist for Middle East peace, leading to her current project, which explores the relationship between national identity and Jewish identity in the American Jewish community during the early twentieth century. rkamel@temple.edu

Marjorie Lehman is Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She recently published The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus (Wayne State University Press, 2012). She is presently working on a feminist commentary on Tractate Yoma in the Babylonian Talmud and co-editing a book, with Simon Bronner (Penn State) and Jane L. Kanarek (Hebrew College), on depictions of mothers in Jewish culture (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, forthcoming). Also with Jane L. Kanarek, she is editing a book in the field of Talmud pedagogy. malehman@jtsa.edu

Judith Margolis, an Israel-based American artist, book designer and writer, is the Art Editor of Nashim. Her mixed-media collages, artist’s books and maps, combining images with text, have been exhibited internationally and published in books and magazines, including ARTweek, Parabola, Sh’ma, Epoch, Architectural Worlds, Tikkun and CROSSCurrents. Her chapter on “Creativity and Healing” appears in Judaism and Health: A Handbook of Practical, Professional and Scholarly Resources (Jewish Lights 2013). Her work is archived at www.judithmargolis.com.

Dalia Ofer is Max and Rita Haber Professor of Holocaust and East European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emerita). She was Head of the Avraham Harman Institute of...

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