Contributors
- Contributors
ELIZABETH SHANKS ALEXANDER (esa3p@cms.mail.virginia.edu) is an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Transmitting Mishnah: The Shaping Influence of Oral Tradition (2006) and Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism (2013).
RACHEL GORDAN (rachel.gordan@utoronto.ca) teaches American Jewish history at the University of Toronto, where she has been the Ray D. Wolfe Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies. She is writing a book about post–World War II American Judaism. In fall 2015, she will be a scholar in residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
IRIS IDELSON-SHEIN (iris.idelson@gmail.com) is Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Martin-Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie, Goethe University, Frankfurt. She is the author of Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race During the Long Eighteenth Century (2014).
JAMES LOEFFLER (james.loeffler@virginia.edu) is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and research associate at the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (2010).
JOANNA B. MICHLIC (jm13351@bristol.ac.uk) is founder and director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Families, Children, and the Holocaust and author of Poland’s Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present (2006). She teaches at Bristol University. [End Page 150]
