Contributors
- Contributors
Myriam Bienenstock is Professor and Chair of German Philosophy at the University François Rabelais at Tours, France. Since 2006, she has also been the President of the "International Rosenzweig Society." She has published widely on German and Jewish Philosophy. Her latest publications include several essays on the duty of memory, for example, "Un devoir de mémoire: les noms," in Les Etudes philosophiques (2009); and a monograph on Cohen face à Rosenzweig. Débat sur lapensée allemande (Paris 2009).
James A. Diamond holds the Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo. He has published widely on Jewish thought, philosophy, and biblical exegesis. His last book Converts, Heretics, and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider (2007) was designated a Notable Selection by the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Committee in Jewish thought and philosophy and was the recipient of the Canadian Jewish book award. He is currently working on a study of modern appropriations of medieval Jewish thought.
Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as a Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University where he is the Director of the Program in Psychoanalysis and the Health Sciences Humanities Initiative. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. His Disease and Diagnoses: The Second Age of Biology appeared in 2010; his most recent edited volume, Wagner and Cinema (with Jeongwon Joe), was also published in that same year. He is a former President of the Modern Language Association and the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Toronto.
Ephraim Meir is a Professor of Jewish philosophy at Bar Ilan University. He was the first translator of Levinas' work into Hebrew. Amongst his many books are: Jewish Existential Philosophers in Dialogue (Hebrew, 2004); Letters of Love. Franz Rosenzweig's Spiritual Biography and Oeuvre in Light of the Gritli Letters (2006); and Levinas's Jewish Thought between Jerusalem and Athens (2008).
Monty Noam Penkower is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem. His books include: The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust (1983); The Holocaust and Israel Reborn: From Catastrophe to [End Page 368] Sovereignty (1994); and Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy, 1939-1945 (2002). His newest volume, Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land, will be published this year by Academic Studies Press.
Moshe Sokol is Dean of the Lander College for Men in New York, and Professor of Philosophy at the Touro College Graduate Faculty of Jewish Studies. He has published over two dozen essays in Israeli, British and American journals and books in the fields of medieval and modern Jewish philosophy and ethics, and is editor of Rabbinic Authority and Personal Autonomy (1993); Engaging Modernity (1997); and Tolerance, Dissent and Democracy: Philosophical, Historical and Halakhic Perspectives (2002). He is a Fellow of the Academy for Jewish Philosophy. [End Page 369]
