- Contributors
Deena Aranoff is Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. Her interests include rabbinic literature, medieval patterns of Jewish thought, and the broader question of continuity and change in Jewish history. She is particularly interested in linguistic speculation as a means by which Jewish scholars articulated cultural affinities and boundaries in ancient, medieval, and modern times. She teaches courses on Jewish society and culture in the medieval and early-modern European context. She completed her PhD in 2006 in the history department at Columbia University with a dissertation titled “In Pursuit of the Holy Tongue: Jewish Conceptions of Hebrew in the Sixteenth Century.”
Nadia Malinovich is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne and also teaches Jewish history at Sciences Po in Paris. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth Century France (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008) and co-editor of The Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities (Brill, 2016). Her current research is focused on the integration, ethnic-self fashioning, and identity politics of former students and teachers of the Alliance Israelite Universelle who emigrated from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States, France, and Canada in the post-World War II years.
Yaakova Sacerdoti is the Head of the Literature and Children’s Literature Department at Levinsky College of Education, Israel. Her book Melody of Fate: The Holocaust in Comic Books during the 1940s and 1950s is forthcoming (December 2018). She authored Be’Yachad Ve’Kol Echad Le’Chud—Al Ha’Nimhan Ha’Yeled Ve’ha’Nimhan Ha’Mevugar Be’Sifrut Ha’Yeladim (Ha’Kibutz Ha’Meuchad, 2000) and Merging Voices: Encounters in Modern Hebrew, a textbook series on Israeli literature and society for English speakers. Her articles on children’s literature and Israeli literature have been published in academic journals around the world. Sacerdoti taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Phoenix, and for ten years headed the Hebrew Language and Literature Department at the Frankel Jewish Academy in Detroit.
Ilana Szobel is Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and a core faculty at the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Brandeis University. Recently, she was Visiting Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include modern Hebrew literature, disability studies, women and gender studies, sexualized violence, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, and film theory. Her book A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch (Brandeis University Press, 2013) is the first comprehensive [End Page i] study of the renowned Israeli poet. Szobel is currently working on a book project, “Flesh of My Flesh: Sexual Violence in Hebrew Literature and Israeli Culture,” which explores the literary history of gender-based violence in Hebrew literature and situates the rhetorics of sexual aggression within the context of gender, race, disability, and Zionism. [End Page ii]