Contributors
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Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. He is a former chair of the Academic Council of AJHS and was Associate Editor of American Jewish History from 1982 to 2002.
Michael Hoberman is a professor of American literature at Fitchburg State University and was a Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellow at the American Jewish Historical Society in 2014–2015. He is the author of three books on New England history and culture, including, most recently, New Israel/New England: Jews and Puritans in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011), and has published articles in Early American Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, American Jewish History, and other scholarly journals.
Marc Lee Raphael is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Program (and Minor) in Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. His publications include a memoir, Diary of a Los Angeles Jew: Autobiography as Autofiction (William and Mary Press, 2009).
Mel Schiff is a former New York City educator and professor in the History and Political Science Department at Touro College. As Senior Research Associate at LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), he documented the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Photograph Collection and the Robert F. Wagner Family Photograph Collection.
Reviewers
Gal Beckerman is the opinion editor of the Forward and the author of When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry (2010).
Henry L Feingold is professor emeritus at the City University of New York. His most recent book is American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion (2013). He was the consulting historian for the recent PBS documentary on the Morgenthaus.
Harriet Hartman is professor of sociology at Rowan University. Her most recent book is Gender and American Jews: Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life (2009).
David M. Reimers is professor emeritus in the History Department at New York University. His most recent books are Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People (2005) and, with Roger Nichols and Leonard Dinnerstein, Natives and Strangers: A History of Ethnic Americans (sixth edition, 2015). [End Page 1]
Jennifer Sartori is Associate Director of Jewish Studies at Northeastern University and co-director, with Dr. Jayne Guberman, of the Adoption & Jewish Identity Project. Her current research focuses on adoption and identity formation in the contemporary American Jewish community.
Paul L. Tractenberg is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor and Alfred C. Clapp, Jr., Distinguished Public Service Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. His most recent book is Courting Justice: Ten New Jersey Cases that Shook the Nation (2013).
Ellen M. Umansky is the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies at Fairfield University. She is currently working on a book of constructive theology that focuses on Jewish liberalism, feminism, and God. [End Page 2]
