Contributors
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Jonathan Krasner is the incoming Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Education Research at Brandeis University. His book, The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education, won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies.
Laura Arnold Leibman is a Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. She is the author of Messianism, Secrecy & Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming four volume set Jews in the Americas, 1620–1826. Sam May graduated from the Reed College History department (2014). His senior thesis was on American Indian fishing and water rights in Celilo Falls and Pyramid Lake.
Rachel Lithgow has a 20 year career in Jewish Museums and non-profit organizations. As the youngest Museum director in the country in 2002, she re-curated and assembled the team to build a new site for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (Opened in October 2010). She currently serves as the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Deborah Dash Moore is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her most recent book is Urban Origins of American Judaism.
Gail Twersky Reimer is the Founding Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive and led the organization for its first two decades, initiating plans for its digital archive, oral history projects, and educational programs, producing Making Trouble, JWA’s film on women comedians, and teaching and lecturing widely on Jewish women’s history.
Reviewers
Leslie Fishbein is Associate Professor of American Studies and Jewish Studies at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her book Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of The Masses (1982) won the New York Historical Association Manuscript Award, and her scholarly articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Prospects, Women’s Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and other journals. She currently is completing a book entitled Memoirs of the Sex Trade: A Cultural History of Prostitution.
Matthew Kraus is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati and an ordained Reform rabbi. Editor of How Should Rabbinic Literature Be Read in the Modern World (2006), he has also written articles on Judaism in the Greco-Roman period for Hebrew Union College Annual, Tikkun and Vetus Testamentum. [End Page v]
Keren R. McGinity is a gender historian affiliated with Brandeis University. Her books include Marrying Out: Jewish Men, Intermarriage, and Fatherhood (2014) and Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America (2009). She also runs the website www.loveandtradition.com.
Andrew Needham is Associate Professor of History at New York University, where he teaches recent US urban, environmental, and borderlands history. He is the author of Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest (2014), which explores how coal-fired power plants on Indian land fueled postwar metropolitan development.
Jess Olson is Associate Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. His most recent book is Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism and Orthodoxy (2013).
Rachel Rubinstein is Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies at Hampshire College. Her most recent book is Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination (2010). [End Page vi]
