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Contributors
Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of, among other works, of The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (1968), The Making of Modern Zionism (1981), Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism (1985), and Arlosoroff (1990).
Abraham Brumberg has written widely on Russian, East European and Jewish affairs. He is now working on a book of essays about the Bund.
Bryan Cheyette has a Chair in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Southampton. He has recently edited Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland: An Anthology (1998) and co-edited Modernity, Culture and “the Jew” (1998). His next book is a critical history of British-Jewish literature to be published by Yale University Press.
Mitchell B. Hart is an Assistant Professor of Jewish and European History at Florida International University in Miami. His book, Social Science and the Politics of Jewish Identity, will be published by Stanford University Press, and an article, “Racial Science, Social Science, and the Politics of Jewish Assimilation,” is forthcoming in ISIS: Journal of the History of Science Society.
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt is Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a member of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Religious Studies Program. She is currently completing a book on Jews in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Yosef Salmon is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University. Most recently he has written an introduction to and annotated an edition of Shivat Zion (1998). His book Religion and Zionism will appear in English this year with Magnes Press.
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum wrote her doctoral dissertation on the Jewish community in Königsberg, East Prussia, 1871–1945. She has published on German-Jewish history and Jewish resistance, and is the co-author of the exhibition “Jewish History in Berlin” (1995). Her current work is a habilitation project about the Condor Legion in Spain.
Na’ama Sheffi is the author of “German in Hebrew: Translation from German into Hebrew in Jewish Palestine, 1882–1948” (Hebrew, 1998), and “The Ring of Myths: The Israelis, Wagner and the Nazis” (Hebrew, forthcoming). She is the editor of Zmanim, the historical quarterly of the School of History, Tel Aviv University, and works at the Democracy Project of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies.
Daniel Soyer is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University in New York. His book, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880–1939, was published in 1997.
Maurizio Viano teaches film and cultural studies at Wellesley College. He is the author of A Certain Realism: Making Use of Passolini’s Film Theory and Practice (1993).
