Contributors
- Contributors
URIEL GELLMAN is a Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on the cultural and social history of the Jews in Eastern Europe, especially the history of Hasidism. He is the author of The Emergence of Hasidism in Poland (2018) [Hebrew] and is co-author of Hasidism: A New History (2017).
MENACHEM KEREN-KRATZ holds a DMD from The Hebrew University. He has also completed a PhD in Yiddish literature at Bar-Ilan University, and a PhD in Jewish history at Tel-Aviv University. His most recently published book is Maramaros-Sziget: Extreme Orthodoxy and Secular Jewish Culture at the Foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, (2013) (Hebrew). His next book will be a biography of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum – The Satmar Rebbe.
WILLIAM KOLBRENER is Professor of English Literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Milton’s Warring Angels (Cambridge, 1996); Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism and Love (Continuum, 2012); and the editor of Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith (2008) His most recent work is The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition (2016). Kolbener’s work in progress, tentatively entitled Melancholy Aesthetics, deals with the relationship between early modern philosophy and aesthetics.
TAMAR SALMON-MACK is a lecturer in Jewish History at the David Yellin Academic College and at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, in Jerusalem. Her research focuses on Early Modern Eastern European Jewish History. She has published a book on family crises in Polish-Lithuanian Jewry and articles dealing with various aspects of the social life of these communities in the 17th and 18th centuries. Her recent research has extended these topics into the 19th century with emphasis on the reflection of historical and sociological phenomena in didactic literary genres.
TAMAS TURAN teaches Talmud and Rabbinic literature at the Department of Assyriology and Hebrew at ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Jewish Studies of the Institute for Minority Studies, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include rabbinic thought, the history of the Hebrew book, and the history of Jewish scholarship. He has published papers on the Jewish context of the work of Ignaz Goldziher, a groundbreaking scholar of Islam, and his disciple Martin Schreiner. He has also edited a volume with Carsten Wilke on Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary (2016).
