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  • Contributors

Judah M. Cohen is the Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and Associate Professor of Musicology at Indiana University. His most recent projects focus on the life of Debbie Friedman and on 19th Century American synagogue music.

Shonna Husbands-Hankin is a writer, Judaic artist, Jewish spiritual director and community organizer. Her articles have appeared in Jewish magazines, including Shema and the annual Reb Shlomo yahrzeit magazine Kol Chevra. Reb Shlomo and Reb Zalman were her teachers for many years.

Sarah Imhoff is Assistant Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program and Religious Studies Department at Indiana University. Her research focuses on religion and the body, and her book Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism is forthcoming from Indiana University Press

Ari Y. Kelman is the Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is the author of Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio (UC Press).

Shaul Magid is the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Professor of Jewish Studies at Indiana University and Kogod Research Fellow at The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. His latest book is Hasidism Incarnate (Stanford). His forthcoming book is The Jewish Jesus of Volozhin: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik’s Commentary to the New Testament (Yale).

Rabbi Dr. Natan Ophir (Offenbacher) received his MA and PhD in Jewish Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he served as campus Rabbi for 16 years. He lives in Jerusalem and teaches there at several colleges. In 2013, he published the first academic biography of Reb Shlomo Carlebach.

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Andrew D. Hottle is professor of art history at Rowan University. His recent publications include The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration (2014) and Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000): Painter of Humanist Realism (2014).

Robin Judd is an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University. The author of the book, Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life, 1843–1933 (2007), she currently is working on a book manuscript concerning European Jewish women who married American, British, and Canadian soldiers during and after World War II. [End Page i]

Rachel Kranson is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her current manuscript, which focuses on the upward mobility of postwar American Jews, is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Along with Hasia Diner and Shira Kohn, she is the co-editor of A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America (2010).

Caroline Light is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Program in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard College. She is author of That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South (2014).

Patrick F. McDevitt is an Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo SUNY. He is the author of May The Best Man Win: Sport, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Britain and the Empire 1880–1935 (2004).

Christopher M. Sterba is the author of Good Americans: Italian and Jewish Immigrants during the First World War (2003). He completed his Ph.D. in American History at Brandeis University and teaches in the American Studies program at San Francisco State University. He was the 2012–2013 Fulbright Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Jennifer A. Stollman Ph. D. is the Academic Director at the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Daughters of Israel, Daughters of the South: Southern Jewish Women and Identity in the Antebellum and Civil War South (2013).

Katherine Leonard Turner teaches in the Philadelphia area and is the author of How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century (2014). [End Page ii]

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