Contributors
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David A. Eisenberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Eureka College. His research interests include political philosophy and the history of philosophy/ideas. His recent publications include “All Things Being Equal: Nietzsche and Tocqueville on our Democratic Future,” in The Montreal Review (2015) and “What Hath Man Wrought: Utopian Dreams and Delusions” in Crisis and Renewal of Civilization, edited by Marek Celinski (2015).
Wendy H. Bergoffen is Lecturer in the Departments of American Studies and Sexuality, Women's, and Gender Studies at Amherst College. Her research interests include modern Jewish history and culture and she has published work on such topics as Jewish gangsters and documentary films about the Holocaust.
Valerie Oved Giovanini's research interests include ethics and the role of language in identity formation. Her doctoral research at The European Graduate School focuses on the role of persecution as a constitutive part of subjectivity, developed in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Sigmund Freud. Her paper on the philosophy of language in the Daodejing was presented at the American Philosophical Association's annual conference.
Yitzhak Reiter is Professor of Middle East history and politics. He chairs the Department of Israel Studies at Ashkelon Academic College. He also teaches in Arabic at the Al-Qasemi (Islamic) College in Baqa al-Gharbiyya and is a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies and the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reiter is the author of ten books (and editor or co-editor of another five), among them, Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem: Jewish/Islamic Conflict over Museum of Tolerance at Mamilla Cemetery (2014); War, Peace and International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel (2011); and National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs versus Jews in Israel (2009).
Abraham Rubin is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Jewish Studies at Lawrence University. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2014. His dissertation, Kafka’s German-Jewish Reception as Mirror of Modernity, explored the ways interwar [End Page 142] interpreters identified Kafka’s fiction as Jewish. His article, “The ‘German-Jewish Dialogue’ and its Literary Refractions: The Case of Margarete Susman and Gershom Scholem,” was recently published in Modern Judaism. Another piece, “Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Literary Collaborators, Ideological Rivals,” will appear in the next volume of The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. Rubin’s scholarly interests include German-Jewish studies, intellectual history, and literary theory. [End Page 143]
