Contributors
- Contributors
GOLDA AKHIEZER is an Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Ariel University. Her research interests include: currents and movements in Judaism, Jewish intellectual history and historical thought, and the Haskalah movement. Her most recent book is Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe (2018).
LEORA BATNITZKY is Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University where she also directs the Program in Judaic Studies. Among other books, she is the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006) and How Judaism Became a Religion (2011). She is currently working on a comparative study of conversion controversies in Israel and India, and also on the Jewish apostate and Catholic saint Edith Stein.
ASHER D. BIEMANN is a professor of modern Jewish thought and intellectual history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism (2009) and Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme (2012), as well as the editor of the Martin Buber Reader (2001), and co-editor of Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement Among Jews and Others (2020).
OZ BLUMAN wrote his dissertation on “The Ethical Dimension in Hillel Zeitlin’s Search for God” (Bar Ilan University, 2018) where he teaches in the Department of Jewish Philosophy. He edits the journal Religia: A Journal of Religious Thought and is the author of the articles: “Tribes: Gateways to the Service of God” (2016) and “Shamati Mimori: A Collection of the Original Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov” (2019). His research focuses on the connections between religion, secularism and ethics in the twentieth century.
DAVID G. DALIN a historian and rabbi, is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books, including Religion and State in the American Jewish Experience (with co-author Jonathan D. Sarna). His most recent book, Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court, was a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.
PINCHAS POLONSKY is currently a research fellow in the Department of Jewish History at Ariel University. His research interests include sociology and the philosophy of modern Judaism, with an emphasis on the thought of Rabbi A. I. Kook and Rabbi I. L. Ashkenazi (Manitou). His latest books are: The Religious Zionism of Rav Kook (2017) and Bible Dynamics, vols. 1–11 (2007–2021).
ASAF YEDIDYA is a senior lecturer at Ariel University and Efrata College (Jerusalem). He is the author of Criticized Criticism: Orthodox Alternatives to Wissenschaft des Judentums 1873–1956 (2013) [in Hebrew]; Halakha and the Challenge of Israeli Sovereignty (2019); and The Life and Thought of Ze’ev Jawitz: “To Cultivate a Hebrew Culture” (2021).
