Contributors
- Contributors
Simeon D. Baumel is the coordinator of EFL studies at Achva College, Shikmim, Israel. He has studied and written about the language policy of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews and is now working on a study of chemistry and language based on a comparative linguistic study of the periodic table in 10 countries.
Alanna E. Cooper received her Ph.D. from Boston University in sociocultural anthropology in 2000. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Judaic Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions. Her research focuses on issues concerning identity, ethnicity, and diaspora among Edot Ha- Mizrah.
Regula Ludi received her Ph.D. from the University of Bern in 1997. She has worked as a staff historian for the Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland-Second World War and held fellowships in 2000-01 at the Wiener Library, London, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and in 2002-03 at the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA. Currently she is a lecturer in the Department of History, Zürich University.
Amos Morris-Reich completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, focusing on the representation of the Jews in early formulations of social science. He is currently a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. His articles have been published in Theory, Culture & Society, Telos, and Almanac of Psychoanalysis.
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is Assistant Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History and The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. He received a Ph.D. in modern Jewish history from Brandeis University (2001) and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Moscow University (1988). He is currently writing a book on Jews in the Russian Army from 1827 to 1914.
Aron Rodrigue is Professor of History and Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University and Codirector of its Taube Center for Jewish Studies. He is the Coeditor of the journal Jewish Social Studies. His publications include Sephardi Jewry: A History of the [End Page 215] Judeo-Spanish Community, 14th-20th Centuries (2000, with Esther Benbassa; revised and expanded version of The Jews of the Balkans, 1995) and Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times (2003; paperback version of Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Transition, 1993). His books have appeared in numerous translations abroad. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research.
Oren Soffer (Ph.D., LL.B.) is a Lady Davis Fellow at the Communication and Journalism Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main research is in the area of Hebrew political communication. He has been a Halbert Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies and an Aresty Visiting Fellow at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University. [End Page 216]
