Contributors
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Tommy Givens is Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and also teaches Christian Ethics. His research interests include the ancient Jewish-Christian schism, political theory, and the contemporary social influence of the Bible. He is author of We the People: Israel and the Catholicity of Jesus (2014) and articles in various academic journals. He is also a member of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning for Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and a fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem in conjunction with the Christian Leadership Initiative of the American Jewish Committee.
Dani Kranz is a Senior Researcher and the head of the Israel Project at the Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany. Trained in social anthropology, history, and social psychology, she remains interested in grassroot group formation and community activism, but has meanwhile developed specializations in the anthropology of migration, legal and political anthropology, interethnic (couple) relationships, and intergenerational transmission processes. She has been conducting long-term ethnographic research work among Jews in Germany, as well as on Jews of German descent in Israel. She also researches non-Jewish immigrants from the Global North in Israel. She has published widely in German, English, and Hebrew. Her recent publications include “Changing Definitions of Germanness Across Three Generations of Yekkes in Palestine/Israel,” German Studies Review (2016); “Quas-Ethnic Capital vs. Quasi-Citizenship Capital: Access to Israeli Citizenship,” Migration Letters (2016); and “Almost Jew: Children of Foreign, Non-Jewish Mothers and Israeli Jewish Fathers,” in Borders, edited by Raanan Lipshitz and Hani Zubida (forthcoming 2017) (Hebrew).
Yaron Peleg is Kennedy Leigh Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include modern Hebrew literary history, Israeli cinema, and Israeli culture more generally, primarily the creation of a native Hebrew culture in Palestine/Eretz Israel at the beginning of the twentieth century and its legacy. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Modern Hebrew Studies and Associate Editor of Prooftexts. His recent books include Directed by God: Jewishness in Contemporary Israeli Film and Television (2016), Brandeis Modern Hebrew (co-author, 2015), and Identities in Motion: Israeli Cinema Reader (co-editor, 2011). [End Page 115]
Daniel H. Weiss is the Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. His research examines the intersection between philosophical thought and classical Jewish texts, and he is the author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion, published by Oxford University Press. In addition, he is actively involved various forms of interfaith dialogue and research via the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and the practice of Scriptural Reasoning.
Mike Witcombe is visiting lecturer in English at the University of Southampton, where he is researching gender and sexuality in contemporary Jewish-American literature. His recent PhD thesis explored themes of sexuality in Philip Roth’s Kepesh novels, and he has published articles on Roth’s work in the Review of Contemporary Fiction and Litteraria Pragensia, as well as a chapter on Michael Chabon in the edited collection Michael Chabon’s America (2014). He is currently a co-editor for the forthcoming essay collection New Voices in Jewish-American Literature, to be published in 2017. He has additional research interests in psychoanalysis, gender theory, and baseball fiction. [End Page 116]
