Contributors
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Robert Benjamin is an independent scholar completing a cultural biography of Ludwig Lewisohn and his critics (particularly Lionel Trilling). He formerly taught American and European cultural history and American ethnic history at Yeshiva College.
Hasia R. Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg professor of American Jewish history at New York University. Her most recent book Roads Taken: the Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Led the Way was published by Yale University Press in 2015.
Michal Ostrovsky is a lecturer of American Studies in the Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her doctoral dissertation (Bar Ilan, 2012) is entitled “Children Knocking at Our Gates: The German Jewish Children’s Aid and the Rescue Activity of the American Jewish Community during World War Two.”
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Tobias Brinkmann is associate professor of Jewish Studies and history at Penn State University. His most recent book is Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (2012).
Judah M. Cohen is the Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and an Associate Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. He is currently working on projects exploring musical theater, 19th century American Jewish liturgical music, and liturgical singer/songwriter Debbie Friedman.
Adam D. Mendelsohn is the Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed their Way to Success in America and the British Empire (2014), which won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies.
Shari Rabin received a B.A. in religion from Boston University and is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. She is currently completing a dissertation on American Judaism in the nineteenth century.
Theodore Rosengarten is the Zucker-Goldberg Chair in Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston and Associate Scholar of Jewish Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974), and co-editor, with his wife Dale, of A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life (2002).
Theodore Sasson is author of The New American Zionism_ (2014). He is a professor of Jewish studies at Middlebury College and a senior research scientist at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. [End Page iv]
