Contributors
- Contributors
Gur Alroey is professor of modern Jewish history at the University of Haifa (galroey@univ.haifa.ac.il). His most recent books are Mehapsei moledet: Ha-histadrut ha-teritoriyalistit ha-Yehudit (ITO) u-maa-vakah ba-tenu‘ah ha-tsiyonit ba-shanim 1905–1925 (2011) and Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century (2011).
Michal Friedman teaches Spanish, Latin American, and Jewish history in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University (mrf25@caa.columbia.edu). Her Columbia University dissertation, completed in 2012, is entitled “Recovering Jewish Spain: Politics, Historiography, and Institutionalization of the Jewish Past in Spain (1845–1935).”
Lori Harrison-Kahan (lori.harrison@bc.edu) is the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (2011) and co-editor of a special issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States entitled “The Future of Jewish American Literary Studies” (2012). She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Connecticut College and is currently in the English department at Boston College.
Ber (Boris) Kotlerman is academic director of the Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies at Bar Ilan University (Ber.Kotlerman@biu.ac.il). He is the author of Bauhaus in Birobidzhan (2008, with Shmuel Yavin), The Theater of “Soviet Jewish Statehood” (2009), and the forthcoming Sholem Aleichem behind the Scenes of Early Jewish Cinema.
Dimitry Shumsky teaches the history of Zionism and modern nationalism in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (shumsky@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il). His book Between Prague and Jerusalem: Prague Zionism and the Idea of a Binational State in Palestine, published in Hebrew by the Zalman Shazar Center and the Leo Baeck Institute (2010), will appear in English with the University of Pennsylvania Press. [End Page 145]
