Contributors
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Mariusz Kałczewiak is a cultural historian focusing on Jewish History, Eastern European Studies, and modern Latin America. Kałczewiak is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Potsdam, and, beginning fall 2018, will be a Posen Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kałczewiak holds PhD degree from Tel Aviv University (2017) and an MA degree from University of Warsaw (2011). His dissertation "Jewish polacos, Argentina and the Yiddishland: Negotiating Transnational Identities, 1914-1939" won the 2017 Best Dissertation Award of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.
Matthew Kaufman received his PhD in humanities from York University in Toronto and is a rabbi affiliated with the CCAR and the RRA. His publications include "The Menorah Journal and Shaping American Jewish Identity: Culture and Evolutionary Sociology," in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 30, no. 4 (2012), and "Horace M. Kallen's Use of Evolutionary Theory in Support of American Jews and Democracy," in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 52, no. 4 (2017). He is the author of an intellectual biography of Horace Kallen, Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity, Science, and Secularism (Syracuse University Press, 2019).
Zohar Segev is professor of Jewish history in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. He is the author of From Ethnic Politicians to National Leaders. American Zionist Leadership, the Holocaust and the Establishment of Israel (Ben Gurion University Press, 2007) and The World Jewish Congress During the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint (De Gruyter Press, 2014). His last article, "Immigration, Politics and Democracy: The World Jewish Congress in Europe, 1936–1939" was published in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism in 2017. His current project is a group biography of Jewish activists who emigrated from Europe to the US during the 1930s and early 1940s. Later, after 1948, they immigrated to Israel. Jewish activists like Jacob Robinson, Arieh Tartakower and Leon Kubowitzki were active in Jewish circles in the United States during World War II, and, after 1948, held important and significant positions within the Israeli bureaucracy.
Amy Weiss is the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education at the College of Saint Elizabeth. Her current book project examines American Jewish-Protestant relations and Israel. She received her PhD in Hebrew & Judaic studies and history from New York University. [End Page v]
Dianne Ashton is professor of religious studies at Rowan University and the former editor of American Jewish History. Her most recent book is Hanukkah in America: A History (New York University Press, 2013).
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research and professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in topics pertaining to gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, memory, the State of Israel, and commemoration.
Shana Bernstein is clinical associate professor of legal studies and American studies at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Brian Dolber is Assistant Professor of Communication at California State University, San Marcos. He is the author of Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar Era (Palgrave, 2017).
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She is the author of several books, including Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century (Princeton University Press, 2006), co-winner of the 2007 Saul Viener Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society.
Shari Rabin is assistant professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/ Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. Her book Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (New York University Press, 2017) won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. His most recent book is Changing the...
