At the Crossroads: Essays on Ahad Ha'am

Contributors

Contributors ALI ATTIA is Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew at Ein Shams University in Cairo. He has published articles on modern Hebrew literature. ARNOLD BAND is Professor of Hebrew Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Nostalgia and Nightmare: A Study in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon and of numerous articles in the field of modern Hebrew literature. EvyATAR FRIESEL is Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his studies are The Zionist Movement in the United States (in Hebrew) and Zionist Policy after the Balfour Declaration (in Hebrew). He has edited Julius Simon-Certain Days, and has written numerous articles for scholarly publications. BEN HALPERN is Koret Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Brandeis University. He is the author of The American Jew: A Zionist Analysis; The Idea of the Jewish State; Jews and Blacks: America's Classic Minorities. JACQUES KORNBERG is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He has published a number of articles, in particular on modern German intellectual history and on the early history of Zionism. ALAN MINTZ is Robert Smith Professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Maryland. He is the author of George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation and Hurban: Catastrophe and Tradition in Hebrew ix CONTRIBUTORS Literature. He is coeditor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History. STANLEY NASH is Associate Professor at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute ()f Religion, in New York City. He has written In Search of Hebraism: Shai Hurwitz and His Polemics in the Hebrew Press. He has published a number of scholarly essays on modern Hebrew literature. TUDOR PARFITT is Lecturer in Hebrew at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published a number of articles on the revival of Hebrew and on the history of the Jewish community in Palestine. His book on the Jewish community in nineteenth century Palestine is soon to be released. He is also completing a book on the revival of Hebrew. DAVID PATTERSON is President of the Oxford Centre for Post-Graduate Hebrew Studies, as well as Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew and a Fellow of St. Cross College. He is the author of Abraham Mapu, the Creator of the Hebrew Novel and The Hebrew Novel in Czarist Russia. JEHUDA REINHARZ is Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University. He is the author of Fatherland or Promised Land: The Dilemma of the German Jew and editor of The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History and Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus. His essays on the history of Zionism have appeared in many scholarly publications. He has just completed the first volume of a biography of Chaim Weizmann. JOSEPH SALMON is. Professor of Jewish History at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He has published in the field of East European Jewish history and on the history of the Jews in nineteenth century Palestine. His essays deal with the problem of modernization in Jewish society and the confrontation between religion and nationalism. ROBERT SELTZER is Associate Professor of History at Hunter College of the City University of New York, and Chairman of its Jewish Studies Program. He is the author of Jewish People, j'ewish Thought: the Jewish Experience in History. He has written on East European Jewish thought for various scholarly publications and is completing a book on Simon Dubnow. x CONTRIBUTORS DAVID VITAL is Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University. He has written The Inequality of States; The Making of British Foreign Policy; The Survival of Small States; The Origins of Zionism; Zionism; The Formative Years. xi ...