Contributors
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Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He has recently published Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom, and will soon publish The Jews of Medieval Western Christendom.
Hasia Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She has recently published The Jews of the United States, and is currently writing a book on American Jewry after World War II and its engagement with the European Catastrophe.
Eli Faber is Professor of History at The City University of New York (John Jay College of Criminal Justice; The University Graduate Center), and serves as editor of American Jewish History. He is the author of Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight, and currently is working on a history of the Jews of New York City during the twentieth century.
Michael Feldberg is Director of Research for the American Jewish Historical Society. He served between 1991 and 2004 as the Society's executive director. He is the author of Blessings of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History (2002), and is currently writing a book tentatively entitled The Day Is Short: Jewish Chaplains in World War II.
Marie Ferrara heads Special Collections at the College of Charleston Library. Her most recent publication is "Moses Henry Nathan and the Great Charleston Fire of 1861," which appeared in the South Carolina Historical Magazine (October 2003).
Murray Friedman is the director of the Myer and Rosaline Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University. He has published What Went Wrong?: The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance. A new study, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy, is shortly to be published.
Harlan Greene is Project Archivist at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston. His biography of John Bennett, Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance, was published in 2001, and his book entitled The German Officer's Boy, a novel about the historical character Herschel Grynszpan, is scheduled to appear in April 2005.
Leo Hershkowitz is Professor of History at Queens College of The City University of New York. He is the author and editor of, among other works, [End Page v] Wills of Early New York Jews (1704-1799) and (with Isidore Meyer) The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence: Letters of the Franks Family (1733-1748). His annotated transcription of "Original Inventories of Early New York Jews (1682-1763)" appeared in the last volume of American Jewish History.
Paula E. Hyman, the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University, is the author of Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women, and of The Jews of Modern France. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Jewish Women: An Historical Encyclopedia.
Pamela S. Nadell is Professor of History and director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, and serves as book review editor of American Jewish History. Her most recent book is American Jewish Women's History: A Reader (2003).
Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College. Among his many publications is the recent Theology of the Halacha. He is presently working on a forthcoming study entitled The Talmud's Theological Bestiary.
Dale Rosengarten is curator of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston Library. She directed research and development for McKissick Museum's exhibition, "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life," and co-edited a book by the same name.
David B. Ruderman, the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thought. At present, he is completing a book devoted to the Jewish convert Moses Marcus and his Jewish and Christian interlocutors in early eighteenth-century England. As well, he is working on a new synthesis of Jewish cultural history in early modern Europe.
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