Contributors
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Gur Alroey is a Professor in the department of Israel Studies and the chair of the Ruderman program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa. He has published five books on Jewish migration in the late nineteenth and early twientieth centuries and on Territorialist ideology. His most recent book is Zionism without Zion: The Jewish Territorial Organization and Its Conflict with the Zionist Organization (Wayne State University Press, 2016).
Tobias Brinkmann is the Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Penn State University. He is currently working on a study about Jewish migration from Eastern Europe between 1860 and 1950. His publications include Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880-1914 (Berghahn, 2013), for which he served as editor.
Caitlin Carenen is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her work focuses on the relationships between religion, ethnicity, and foreign policy in U.S. history. She is the author of The Fervent Embrace: Liberal Protestants, Evangelicals, and Israel (NYU Press, 2012). This article is a part of a larger project on American Jews and war relief in World War I.
Jeffrey S. Gurock is Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University. He is a former associate editor of American Jewish History and was twice chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Markus Krah is a Lecturer in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the School of Jewish Theology, University of Potsdam. He received his PhD in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, and he is the author of American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past (de Gruyter, 2017). He is currently working on a book about the transnational history of Schocken Books and its role for post-1945 American Jewish readers.
Eli Lederhendler is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and he specializes in the history of modern Jews in America and Eastern Europe. His books include The Road to Modern Jewish Politics (Oxford University Press, 1989), New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970 (Syracuse University Press, 2001), Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and American Jewry: A New History (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Shari Rabin received a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University and is currently Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She is a historian of American religions and modern Judaism and the author of Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (NYU Press, 2017). [End Page v]
Gil Ribak is an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Gentile New York: The Images of Non-Jews among Jewish Immigrants (Rutgers University Press, 2012). His articles have appeared in journals such as American Jewish History, Israel Studies Forum, Journal of American Ethnic History, AJS Review, Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies, and Modern Judaism, as well as in numerous books. He is currently working on a book about the image of Africans in popular Yiddish literature.
Miriam Rürup is director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg. Before moving to Hamburg in July 2012 she worked as a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, and as Assistant Professor in the History Department at Göttingen University. Her research project deals with a history of statelessness in Europe after WWII. She published a history of German-Jewish student fraternities in Imperial and Weimar Germany, Ehrensache. Jüdische Studentenverbindungen an deutschen Universitäten 1886–1937 (Wallstein-Verlag, 2008). Her publications, which can be found in Geschichte und Gesellschaft, the Journal of Modern European History, and the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, include articles on statelessness, Jewish student fraternities, and the methodological reassessments of the usefulness of the term “Diaspora” for contemporary history. Most recently, she co...
