Contributors
- Contributors
INGRID ANDERSON received her doctorate from Boston University. She is a full-time instructor in the College of Arts and Science Writing Program and an affiliate of the Elie Wiesel Center at Boston University. Her research interests include contemporary understandings of the relationship between ethical response and suffering and the construction of minority identities in the West. Her current research focuses on changing notions of Jewish mission and Jewish chosenness after 1945.
MORRIS M. FAIERSTEIN is a Research Associate at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland. He has published extensively in the areas of Hasidism, Safed Kabbalah, and Early Modern Yiddish literature. Among his recent books are, Jewish Customs of Kabbalistic Origin (Academic Studies Press, 2013); From Safed to Kotsk: Studies in Kabbalah and Hasidism (Cherub Press, 2013); and Ze’enah U-Re’enah: A Critical Translation (De Gruyter, forthcoming).
SANDER L. GILMAN is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. His Illness and Image: Case Studies in the Medical Humanities appeared in 2015; his most recent edited volume, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Collaboration and Conflict in the Age of Diaspora was published in 2014.
DANIEL REISER is a lecturer in the Department of Mysticism and Spirituality at Safed (Zefat) Academic College. He received his PhD in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in Kabbalah, Hasidic philosophy, modern mysticism, and theology in the Shoah. Reiser also teaches Jewish Thought at Shalem College, Herzog College, and Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies.
MICHAEL A. ROSENTHAL is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. He is the co-editor of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (2010) and the author of many articles on early modern and Jewish philosophy, which have appeared in journals such as the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, New German Critique, and the Journal of Political [End Page 112] Philosophy. He is currently working on a book on Spinoza’s Theological Political Treatise.
ABRAHAM OFIR SHEMESH holds a PhD in Land of Israel Studies and Archeology from Bar Ilan University. He is currently a Faculty Associate and Senior Lecturer in the Israel Heritage Department of Ariel University of Samaria. He has published a number of essays dealing with the subjects of nature and medicine through the ages. He is the author of Medical Materials in Medieval and Modern Jewish Literature: Pharmacology, History and Halakha (2013); and Plants, Nourishments and Ways of Eating in Blessings Literature: 1492–2000 (2014).
ASSAF YEDIDYA is a lecturer in Jewish History at the Efrata College in Jerusalem. He is the author of Criticized Criticism – Orthodox Alternatives to ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’ 1873–1956 (2013) [in Hebrew]; and ‘To Cultivate a Hebrew Culture’: The Life and Thought of Zeev Jawitz (2016) [in Hebrew]. [End Page 113]
