Contributors
- Contributors
Adam S. Ferziger is a vice chairman and a senior lecturer in the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He researches the history of Jewish religious movements and leadership in modern Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and in the U.S. and Israel since World War II. Currently he is serving as a visiting research fellow at Wolfson College and the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and is co-convener of an international research group on Orthodox Judaism and theology at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Alexander Green is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage at SUNY Buffalo. His research focuses on the ethics of the medieval Jewish thinker Levi Gersonides in his biblical commentaries. He has published in the Jewish Political Studies Review, Review of Metaphysics, and Review of Politics, most notably “Power, Deception, and Comedy: The Politics of Exile in the Book of Esther” (Jewish Political Studies Review, 2011).
Ephraim Meir is an associate professor of modern Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy. He has been a guest professor in Strasbourg, Heidelberg, and Phoenix, and is the Levinas guest professor at Hamburg University. Among his recent books are Levinas’s Jewish Thought between Jerusalem and Athens (2008); Identity Dialogically Constructed (2011); Differenz und Dialog (2011); and Between Heschel and Buber (2012), with Alexander Even-Chen.
Jonatan Meir is an associate professor in the Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His fields of expertise include the Haskalah Movement, Hasidism, and modern Kabbalah. His publications include Rehovot ha-Nahar: Kabbalah and Exotericism in Jerusalem (1896–1948), [Hebrew] (Jerusalem, 2011); and Michael Levi Rodkinson and Hasidism, [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv, 2012).
David Resnick is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, Bar-Ilan University. He studies the cultural contexts of Jewish education as well as philosophical issues in contemporary educational thought, Jewish and general. His article on the history of the confirmation ceremony appeared in this journal in 2011. [End Page 233]
Yosef Salmon, Professor Emeritus at Ben Gurion University, has published numerous books and articles on modern Jewish history. His research addresses the history of the Jews in Eastern Europe and the Land of Israel in the 19th and 20th centuries, centered especially on religious movements: Hasidism, Religious Zionism, and Orthodoxy. Among his publications are Shivat Zion (annotated edition) (1998); Religion and Zionism (English) (2002); and Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism (2006) (Hebrew, soon to be published in English). [End Page 234]
