Contributors
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Allan Amanik received his PhD from New York University and is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He specializes in American Jewish history, with a focus on immigration, ethnicity, and gender studies. His research interests include death and dying in America, the history of the family, and social welfare policy in the United States. He is the coeditor of the forthcoming volume, Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed and is currently working on a manuscript, From Dust to Deeds: Family, Community, and Economy in New York Jewish Cemeteries, 1654–1950.
Hasia R. Diner is the Paul And Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Professor of Hebrew in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and the Department of History at New York University. Her areas of research interest include American Jewish history, American immigration history, and women's history, and her honors have included the Guggenheim Fellowship and Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. Dr. Diner's recent publications include Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way (2015) and We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962 (2009), winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Saul Viener Prize.
Gennady Estraikh is Clinical Professor, the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, and Director of the Shvidler Project for the History of the Jews of the Soviet Union. His areas of research interest include Jewish intellectual history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an accent on Yiddish literary milieus, socialist and communist circles, and civil society organizations. Dr. Estraikh's recent publications include the monograph Yiddish Literary Life in Moscow (2015), and the co-edited volumes Children and Yiddish Literature (2016) and Three Cities of Yiddish: St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow (2017). [End Page 155]
Yaelle R. Frohlich is a doctoral candidate in the Departments of History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on Diaspora Jewish connections to Eretz Israel in the mid-nineteenth century, prior to the rise of Zionism. She holds a BA in English Communications and an MA in Modern Jewish History from Yeshiva University.
Daniel Greene is adjunct professor of history at Northwestern and guest exhibition curator at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity (2011).
Markus Krah is a lecturer in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the School of Jewish Theology at University of Potsdam, Germany. He received his PhD in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York; he also holds an MA in American Studies. His first book, American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past, is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2017. It examines how American Jews in the 1940s to 1960s created highly different images of their Eastern European past in order to make it usable for their American Jewish present and future. His new project examines how the transnational German-American history of Schocken Books (New York) shaped the publishing house's program, as it sought to make traditional Jewish knowledge accessible and relevant to post-traditional American Jews by presenting it in modern, cultural terms.
Caroline E. Luce is the Ross Postdoctoral Fellow and the Research and Digital Projects Manager of the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. She received her PhD in American History from UCLA in 2013 for her dissertation exploring Yiddish-based labor and community organizing in East Los Angeles and is currently developing a book manuscript entitled, Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism, Labor and Culture in Los Angeles, 1900-1950. She also serves as Chief Digital Curator of the Leve Center's digital history project, Mapping Jewish Los Angeles.
Laura Yares is currently Director of Educational Research and Innovation at Hillel International. She received her PhD from Georgetown University in 2013, and has subsequently taught in the MA program in Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts at...
