Contributors
- Contributors
Nelly Elias is Chair of the Department of Communication Studies and Director of The Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communications, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. She specializes in audience studies of immigrants and their children, with particular interest in immigrants' media uses and diasporic online communities. She has various academic publications in the field of mass media and immigrant integration, including a book entitled Coming Home: Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany (SUNY Press, 2008) and peer-reviewed articles in English, Hebrew, and Russian in journals such as International Communication Gazette, New Media & Society, Television and New Media, Journal of International Communication, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Israeli Sociology, Diasporas, and Journal of Advertising Research. For more details, see http://cms-prod.bgu.ac.il/humsos/departments/masscom/staff/academic/Nelly.htm.
Olga Gershenson is Associate Professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is the author of Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel; A Study of Cultural Colonization (Peter Lang, 2005) and editor of Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (Temple UP, 2009). Her essays have appeared in Journal of Israeli History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Journal of Film and Video, The Intercultural and International Communication Annual, Journal of International Communication and other journals and anthologies. She is now writing a book about the Holocaust in Russian cinema.
Rinat Golan teaches Hebrew and Arabic at Talpiot Teachers College and Levinsky College for Education in Israel. She also serves as supervisor for teachers of Hebrew language and composition at the Ministry of Education. Her doctoral dissertation dealt with the acquisition of Hebrew among new immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and its influence on their social and cultural absorption.
Rachel S. Harris is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature in the Department of Comparative and World Literature and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She completed her D.Phil at The University of Oxford where she wrote on Suicide in Israeli Literature. Currently, she is co-editing a collection on representations of war in Israeli culture and society with Ranen Omer-Sherman. Her recent scholarly work focuses on contemporary Israeli literary journals. She has been published in Israel Studies, JoJI, and the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
Robert Leventhal is Associate Professor of German Studies at The College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany 1750-1800 (Walter de Gruyter, 1995) and has edited the volume Reading after Foucault: Institutions, Disciplines, and Technologies of the Self in Germany 1750-1830. (Wayne State University [End Page vii] Press, 1995). He has also written more recently on the psychological case-history in the eighteenth century (Moritz, Schiller, Herz), Spinoza's influence on Early German Romanticism, and the "alternating principle" (Wechselerweis) in Friedrich Schlegel's early philosophical writings (Athenäum. Jahrbuch für Romantik, 2007).
Malka Muchnik is a senior lecturer in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She is author of Language, Culture and Society, published by the Open University in Israel (in Hebrew). She is the former president of the Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society, and is the founder and editor of the journal Israel Studies in Language and Society.
Larissa Remennick is Professor of Sociology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She was born and educated in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to Israel in 1991. Her current research interests include Russian Jewish immigrants of the last twenty years, their integration in the host countries, and the emerging Russian Jewish global diaspora. Her most recent book is "Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict" (Transaction, 2007).
Anna Ronell received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Her areas of research include the Russian Jewish Diaspora, Eastern European Jewish civilization and literary and cultural studies. She taught at Wellesley College and presently works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Suzanne D. Rutland is Associate Professor in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on Australian...
