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  • Contributors

Robert Rockaway teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Tel-Aviv University. His most recent English books include Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early Twentieth-Century America (1998) and But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gansters (2000).

Arnon Gutfeld teaches in the Department of History at Tel-Aviv University. His most recent English book is American Exceptionalism: The Effects of Plenty on the American Experience (2002).

Eric L. Goldstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and in the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, where he teaches American and modern Jewish history. He is completing a book on the ways Jewish identity has been shaped by American categories of race.

Joseph W. Bendersky is a Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is the author of The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army, Carl Schmitt: Theorist for the Reich; and A History of Nazi Germany.

Dr. Marc Dollinger serves as the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. He is author of Quest For Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America (2000).

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Uva de Aragón is Professor of Humanities and Associate Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University in Miami. She is also Associate Editor of Cuban Studies.

Jerome A. Chanes is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Barnard College and at Stern College. He is the co-editor most recently of A Portrait of the American Jewish Community (1998), and is the author of A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages (2000) and of the widely-used monograph A Primer on the American Jewish Community (1999). [End Page 1]

Susan A. Glenn is Professor of History at the University of Washington. Her most recent book is Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism (2000).

Andrew R. Heinze is Professor of History and Director of the Swig Judaic Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption and the Search for American Identity (1990) and a collaborative author of the forthcoming Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Leo Hershkowitz, Professor of History at Queens College of the City University of New York, has written extensively about New York City history. His books include Tweed's New York: Another Look (1977).

Hadassa Kosak is Associate Professor of History at Yeshiva University. Her most recent book is Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905 (2000).

Michael Panitz is Rabbi of Temple Israel, Norfolk, Virginia, and Adjunct Professor of Religion at Virginia Wesleyan College. He earned a Ph.D. at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and his most recent publication is "Solomon Schechter and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America" in Solomon Schechter in America: A Centennial Tribute, ed. Robert E. Fierstien (2002).

Sara Reguer is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Her new book, co-edited with Reeva Simon and Michael Menachem Laskier, is The Jews of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (forthcoming).

Bernard Reich is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Among his numerous publications is Securing the Covenant: United States-Israel Relations After the Cold War (1995).

Robert Rockaway is Associate Professor of Jewish History at Tel-Aviv University. His most recent book is But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters (2000).

Erica Simmons is writing her doctoral dissertation on the Hadassah Organization' s social welfare work in pre-State Israel.

Lauren B. Strauss, a doctoral candidate in Modern Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, is writing a cultural history of left-wing American Jewish visual artists in New York between the World Wars. [End Page 2]

Leslie Woodcock Tentler is Professor of History and Director of the Center for American Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America. She is currently writing a book on Catholic pastoral practice and...

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