Contributors
- Contributors
VIBEKE KIEDING BANIK holds a doctorate in Jewish history and is currently affiliated as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, at the University of Oslo. Her main focus of research is on the history of minorities in Scandinavia, particularly Jews, with an emphasis on migration and integration. Dr. Banik has authored several articles on Jewish life in Norway, Jewish historiography and the Norwegian women’s suffragette movement. She is currently writing a book on the history of the Norwegian Jews, scheduled to be published in 2015.
MARCO DI GIULIO is an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He has been a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and an adjunct fellow at the Katz Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a contributor to Hebrew Studies, The Jewish Quarterly Review, History of Universities, Materia Giudaica and other journals.
MIRI FREUD-KANDEL is the Fellow in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include the theological development of Jewish religious movements and denominationalism; the development and theology of Orthodox forms of Judaism, especially notions of a Modern Orthodoxy; and British Jewry. Her publications include Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken (2006). Her current research project is a monograph on the theology of Louis Jacobs.
PROFESSOR ALAN JOTKOWITZ is Director of the Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics and Associate Director for Academic Affairs Medical School for International Health and Medicine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a Senior Physician at Soroka University Medical Center, both in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
MENACHEM KEREN-KRATZ holds a DMD (The Hebrew University, 1985). He completed a PhD in Yiddish literature at Bar-Ilan University, 2009 and an additional PhD in Jewish history (Tel-Aviv University, 2013). His recently published book is: Maramaros-Sziget: Extreme Orthodoxy and Secular Jewish Culture at the Foothills of the Carpathian Mountains (2013, in Hebrew). [End Page 244]
ARIEL EVAN MAYSE holds a PhD in Jewish Studies from Harvard University. His dissertation is entitled “Beyond the Letters: The Question of Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Baer of Mezritch.” He is a co-editor of the two-volume collection Speaking Torah: Spiritual Teachings From Around the Maggid’s Table (2013), and editor of the recent From the Depth of the Well: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism (2014). Starting in September 2015, he will be a Research Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. [End Page 245]
