Contributors
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Contributors
Howard B. Rock is Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Atlantic University. His book, Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World 1654–1860, with its two companion volumes, won the National Jewish Book Award given by the Jewish Book Council.
Jarrod Tanny is Associate Professor of History and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His monograph, City of Rogues and Schnorrers (Indiana University Press, 2011) examines how the city of Odessa was mythologized as a Jewish city of sin, celebrated for its Jewish gangsters, pimps, bawdy musicians and comedians.
Carla Vieira is researcher at the Center for Sephardic Studies Alberto Benveniste (Catedra de Estudos de Sepharditas) and the Portuguese Center for Global History (CHAM-FCSH-UNAc) in Lisbon. Her current research focuses on the Portuguese New Christian communities and the Sephardic diaspora in England and North America.
Reviewers
Ronald H. Bayor is Emeritus Professor of History at Georgia Tech. His most recent book is Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America (2014).
Eric S. Freeman is the Assistant Director of the Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, a division of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University. Cantor Freeman is also the Musical Director of the Choir of K’hal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, NY.
Lori Harrison-Kahan is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College. She is the author of the The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (2011).
Hannah Schwadron is Assistant Professor of Dance History at Florida State University and is writing a book on the physical humor of the Sexy Jewess spectacle.
Zohar Segev is Chair of the Department of Jewish History and Head of the Wolfson Chair in Jewish Religious Thought and Heritage at the University of Haifa. He is the author of From Ethnic Politicians to National Leaders: American Zionist Leadership, the Holocaust, and the Establishment of Israel (2007) and The World Jewish Congress During the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint (2014).
Stephen J. Whitfield is the Max Richter Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University and is the author of In Search of American Jewish Culture (1999). [End Page IV]
