Contributors
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Ari Ackerman is Dean of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem, where he teaches courses in the areas of Jewish philosophy and education. He received his PhD in Jewish thought from Hebrew University. His critical edition of the sermons of Zerahia Halevi Saledin recently appeared (2013). He is currently working on a monograph on creation and codification in the philosophy of Hasdai Crescas.
Shlomo Gleibman is a PhD Candidate at York University in the Department of Humanities and Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies. His research focuses on Jewish queer culture through exploring the intersections of classical Jewish texts and their interpretive tradition, contemporary Jewish literature in North America, and queer theory. His publications include "Same-Sex Desire and Jewish Community: Queering Biblical Texts in Canadian and American Jewish Literature," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (2017); "'The Madness of the Carnival': Representations of Latin America and the Caribbean in the U.S. Homophile Press," Journal of Homosexuality (2017); "Buber's Theories of Subjectivity and Relation in the Context of Jewish Mysticism and German Enlightenment," in Aufklärung und Esoterik—Wege in die Moderne (2013).
Matthew Goldstone is currently completing his doctorate at New York University in Talmud and rabbinic literature. His dissertation research analyzes the diverse responses of Jewish and some early Christian leaders to the scriptural obligation to rebuke one's fellow (Lev 19:17).
Eugene Matanky is currently a graduate student at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include kabbalah, hasidism, modern Jewish philosophy, contemporary Judaism, and new religious movements. He has translated Holiness and Transgression: The Mother of the Messiah in Jewish Myth, by Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel (2017) and is currently translating Vision as a Mirror: Imagery Techniques in Twentieth Century Jewish Mysticism (2014) by Daniel Reiser, both from the Hebrew. He is currently working on his thesis analyzing zoharic hermeneutics in sixteenth-century Safedian kabbalah and the conceptions of self therein. [End Page 149]
Julia Schwartzmann is Senior Lecturer at Western Galilee College. Her research interests include Medieval Jewish philosophy, medieval Jewish thinkers' attitudes toward women, femininity, abstract concepts in gendered discourse, religious writings of Orthodox women, gender in contemporary Jewish religious thought, and contemporary religious thought. Her recent publications include "Religious Writing by Orthodox Jewish Women: Creating a Theology," Journal of Contemporary Religion (2012); "Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh and His Feminine Vision of the Messianic Age," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (2013); and "From Mystical Visions to Gender Equality Aspirations–A Hermeneutical Journey of Two Biblical Verses," Journal of Jewish Studies (2015).
Michal Shahaf is an independent researcher of the history of Jewish education, focusing on educational projects in the Jewish community in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Her research examines educational endeavors on the backdrop of the context in which they were initiated. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, after writing her dissertation, Women Writers of Jewish Educational Literature in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (2006). Her recent publications include "The Jewish Sabbath Journal, Its Friends and Subscribers in the Anglo-Jewish Community in 1855," Kesher, Journal of Media and Communications History in Israel and the Jewish World (2014) (Hebrew); and "Charlotte Montefiore's Secret: The Cheap Jewish Library—An Educational Philanthropic Mission," Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (2016). [End Page 150]
