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Max D. Baumgarten is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation, “From Watts to Rodney King: Peoplehood, Politics, and Citizenship in Jewish Los Angeles, 1965–1992,” traces the pathways that led to Jewish disengagement from local politics in late twentieth century Los Angeles.
Lila Corwin Berman is Associate Professor of History at Temple University, where she holds the Murray Friedman Chair of American Jewish History and directs the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. She is most recently the author of Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit (Chicago, 2015).
Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University and Adjunct Research Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is writing a book on religion in modern Manhattan, 1870–1960, tentatively entitled God in Gotham.
Lily Geismer is Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College where she teaches and researches about United States political and urban history in the 20th century. Her first book, Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party, was released by Princeton University Press in 2015.
Cecile E. Kuznitz is Associate Professor of History at Bard College. She is the author of YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation (Cambridge, 2014) as well as articles on the Jewish community of Vilna and the field of Yiddish studies.
Eli Lederhendler is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry. He is the author of, among other publications, New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity (Syracuse, 2001).
Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (Harvard, 2009), editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (NYU, 2012), and co-editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies.
Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An historian of American Jews, she has published an acclaimed trilogy examining the years from 1920 to 1960, including the experience of Jewish soldiers in World War II. [End Page 1]
Ewa Morawska is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Her fields of specialization include social theory, qualitative research methods, and comparative-historical sociology of international migration and multiculturalism examined across time and space.
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Samantha Baskind is professor of art history at Cleveland State University. Her most recent book, Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (2014), was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
Margalit Bejarano directs the Division of Latin America, Spain and Portugal at the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of several works on the history of Cuba, the Jews in Cuba, and Cuban and Latino Jews in Miami, as well as on the Sephardic communities in Latin America and on oral history.
John L. Jackson, Jr. is Richard Perry University Professor and Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of several books, including Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (2014).
Jonathan Karp is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Binghamton University. From 2010–2013 he served as Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce (2009) and coeditor with Adam Sutcliffe of The Cambridge History of Judaism. He is currently completing a book entitled Chosen Surrogates: A Class and Cultural Analysis of Black-Jewish Relations.
Esther Romeyn is Senior Lecturer at the Center for European Studies, University of Florida. Her most recent book is Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 (2008).
Edward S. Shapiro is professor emeritus at Seton Hall University and the author of A Time for Healing: American...
