Contributors to This Issue

Contributors Contributors to This Issue vii Stephen Cohen studied Yiddish with Hannah Kliger atthe University ofPennsylvania, and now speaks it at home to his son. He is a member of Yugntruf(Youth for Yiddish) and the League for Yiddish and is the Editor-in-Chief of a new Yiddish-English dictionary ofchemical terminology. He is the Assistant Conductor ofLaShir, the Jewish choir of Princeton, NJ and has arranged numerous choral works in Hebrew, Yiddish, and French. Dr. Cohen is also the co-creator ofHaggadah: A Modern Edition. Paul B. Fenton holds the chair of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Department of Arabic and Oriental Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris. Both a Hebraist and an Arabist, he has specialized in the confluence ofJewish and Islamic philosophy and mysticism, and more generally in Jewish culture in the Islamic context. He has published widely in these areas, notably: Obadyah Maimonides 'Treatise ofthe Pool (London, 1981, 2nd ed. 1995); David Maimonides ' Guide to Detachment (Jerusalem, 1987); Deux traites de mystique juive (Lagrasse, 1987); Ibn Arabi, La Projection des cerdes (Paris, 1995); Philosophie et exegese dans Ie jardin de la metaphore de Moise Ibn 'Ezra (Leiden, 1997); Ibn Waqar, Fundamentals ofth~ Qabbalah (Jerusalem, 1999). Ronald S. Green teaches history at Casady School in Oklahoma City. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Oklahoma in 1998. Although much of his academic work as a Americanist is not directly related to Jewish Studies, he has long had an interest in organized antisemitism and its folklore. His senior thesis at Harvard was on the Silvershirts, an American antisemitic organization of the 1930s. He has taught classes examining the antisemitic bases of conspiracy theories of history and subscribes to the H-Net list "H-Antisemitism." His other interests include mid-century teenagers in the United States, and film images ofyouth and other subcultures. He has written an article on cinematic portrayals ofchildren and teenagers for the forthcoming Columbia Companion to American History on Film, to be published by Columbia University Press. Mara W. Cohen Ioannides is a lecturer in the English Department of Southwest Missouri State University. She has been published in: CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly; The Newsletter of the Association for Rhetoric, Writing, and the Transcendent; and Kansas English; she has given papers at the MJSA, WJSA, Conference on College Composition and Communication, and Missouri Philological Association. Ms. Cohen Ioannides is also the co-creator of Haggadah: A Modern Edition. viii SHOFAR Winter2000 VoL 18, No.2 Lee Kersten teaches German Studies and film and mass communication history in the Centre for European Studies and General Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. An Australian, Kersten studied atthe Universities of~delaide,Vienna, and Cologne. His special research interests currently are the history ofpress and radio (particularly short-wave) in Australia and Germany in the 1930s and 40s. Kenneth H. Ober has taught at Illinois State University, the University ofAlberta, and the University of Michigan. His books include Bibliography of Modern Icelandic Literature in Translation 1981-1992 (Norvik, 1997); BibliographyofModern Icelandic Literature in Translation: Supplement 1971-1980 (Cornell, 1990); the edition of the diaries of a Danish-Jewish writer, M A. Goldschmidts DagbrtJger. I-II (Det danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab, 1987); Mei'r Goldschmidt (Twayne, 1976); and Bibliography ofModern Icelandic Literature in Translation (with P. M. Mitchell) (Cornell, 1975). He has translated among others, (from Russian) Eleazar M. Meletinsky's The Elder Edda and Early Forms of the Epic (Parnaso, 1998); (from Danish) Mei'r Goldschmidt's A Jew (Garland, 1990); and (from Russian) M. I. Steblin-Kamenskij's The Saga Mind (Odense University Press, 1973). His scholarly articles, concerning primarily nineteenth-century literatures and cultures, have appeared in learnedjournals in the U.S., Canada, England, Denmark, and France. Gilya Gerda Schmidt is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She is the author of Martin Buber's Formative Years: From German Culture to Jewish Renewal 1898-1909 (University ofAlabama Press, 1995), and editor and translator of National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria, by Erika Thurner (University of Alabama Press, 1998), and of The First...