Contributors
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Adrienne deNoyelles is a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida. Her dissertation, scheduled to be completed in 2017, explores the relationship between tuberculosis, immigrants, and Progressive reformers in early twentieth-century New York City.
Ellen Eisenberg, the Dwight and Margaret Lear Professor of American History at Willamette University, is the author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882–1920 (1995), The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal during WWII (a 2008 National Jewish Book Award finalist), and Jews of the Pacific Coast: Reinventing Community on America’s Edge (2010), co-authored with Ava F. Kahn and William Toll. Her latest work, Embracing a Western Identity: Jewish Oregonians, 1849–1950 was published in 2015 by Oregon State University Press, and will be followed this year by The Jewish Oregon Story, 1950–2015.
Jacob S. Dorman is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Kansas and author of the multiple prize-winning book Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (Oxford 2013). He is writing a book about Black Jews, Black-Jewish relations, and the Black Power era, as well as a book on Orientalism in American popular culture and the genesis of Black Muslim movements.
Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, D.C. He is the author of 16 books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and American Jewish history, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust.
Lawrence A. Peskin is professor of history at Morgan State University and the author of a number of books and articles, including Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public, 1785–1816. He is currently working on a history of Americans in the Mediterranean world.
Britt P. Tevis is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is completing a dissertation about Jewish lawyers who transformed American jurisprudence during the early twentieth-century. She earned her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2012.
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Zev Eleff is Chief Academic Officer of Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, IL. His forthcoming book, Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History, will appear in 2016.
Ayala Fader is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director of Women’s Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of the award-winning book [End Page v] Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (2009).
Sarah Imhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program and the Religious Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism, forthcoming from Indiana University Press (2016). Her current project is on disability, queerness, and American Zionism.
Kenneth A. Kanter is Associate Dean and Director of the Rabbinical School at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, OH. He is the author of The Jews of Tin Pan Alley (1982) and several articles in Jewish-American History and Culture (1992) and Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture (2009).
Jonathan D. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chair of its Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program. He is also Chief Historian of the National Museum of American Jewish History. His many books include American Judaism: A History (2004) and (with Benjamin Shapell) Lincoln & the Jews: A History (2015).
Amy C. Schneidhorst is an affiliated scholar at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan. Her most recent book, Building a Just and Secure World: Popular Front Women’s Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s was released in paperback in 2013.
Michael Stanislawski is the Nathan. J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University. He is the author of six books on modern Jewish history. The most recent is Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History (2007). [End Page vi]
