Contributors
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Roni Mikel Arieli is a Scholion post-doctoral fellow, as a member of the research group “In Someone Else’s Shoes—An Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Empathy in History, Society, and Culture,” at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She wrote her PhD dissertation, “Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Cultural and Discursive Aspects of Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994)” in the Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the 2014 class of the Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Fellowship program and holds a PhD fellowship in the European Research Council project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948–1990.” Her publications include: “Ahmed Kathrada in Post-War Europe: Holocaust Memory and Apartheid South Africa (1951–1952),” African Identities (2019) and “African Asylum Seekers in Israel—Six Genres of Discourse within One Debate,” Hagira–Israel Journal of Migration 6 (2016).
Linda J. Borish is associate professor of History, Gender, and Women’s Studies in the History Department at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Her publications in sport history, women’s and gender history include lead editor, The Routledge History of American Sport (2017, 2019), and co-author of Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization (Human Kinetics, 2017). She has published chapters about women, gender, American Jewish history, and sport history, in Sports in Chicago; Sports and the American Jew; Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics; A Companion to American Sport History, New York Sports: Grit and Glamour in the Empire City; With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion, and others. Her scholarly articles appeared in the Journal of Sport History, International Journal of the History of Sport, Rethinking History, and others. She was executive producer/historian of the documentary “Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics,” (2007) research associate of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University, and is on the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. She earned various fellowships for research on women and American sport history, and was visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish History. She served as international ambassador for the North American Society for Sport History.
Annie Greene is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at the College of William & Mary. She received her PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She has held a year-long research fellowship at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. [End Page 1]
Kathleen Gyssels is Professor (HDR Sorbonne) of Francophone Postcolonial Literature and Culture at Antwerp University, where she teaches classes on authors from the African and Jewish diasporas publishing in French. Her publications are principally concerned with African American, Caribbean, and Jewish Francophone authors. As a member of the Institute of Jewish Studies at Antwerp University, she extended her scope and reach to include conflictual issues, such as the Memory Laws and the Memory Wars in the French Republic and postcolonial countries. In recent publications she tackled the resurgence of antisemitism in the Caribbean and its echoes in both literature and criticism. Her expertise in African-American literature and arts, Jewish and African diasporas, and the Caribbean has allowed her to work in broad intertextual and interdisciplinary fields. She focuses on three main components: debalkanization (Glissant), disenfranchising (the subaltern) (Spivak), and recanonization, and has published books, chapters in books, journal articles, and reviews. In addition to her research and teaching activities, she is Coordinator of the Research Group for Postcolonial Literature at the University of Antwerp and an associate member of the Institute for Jewish Studies.
Abraham Rubin is a postdoctoral fellow of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining Hebrew University, he held postdoctoral positions at Lawrence University and Goethe University, Frankfurt. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. His articles have appeared in Literature and Theology, Jewish Social Studies, Modern Judaism, and other journals. His current research focuses on narratives of conversion and apostasy in modern...
