Contributors to This Issue

Lawrence Baron is the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies at San Diego State University. He is the founder and current President of the Western Jewish Studies Association. He is currently writing a book about cinematic trends in recent feature films about the Holocaust.

Esther Fuchs is Professor of Judaic Studies and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is the author of books and articles on various aspects of modern and biblical Hebrew literature. Most recently she has authored several articles on gender and Holocaust films and on Second Generation Holocaust writing and Israeli national identity. Her most recent publications are Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation (1999) and Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading theHebrew Bible as aWoman (2000). Her forthcoming book is Israeli Women: A Reader (Rutgers University Press).

Nurith Gertz is Professor of cinema and literature in the Open University and Tel Aviv University, Israel. Among her recent books are El Ma Shenamog (Not From Here) (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1997; in Hebrew) and Myths in Israeli Culture (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2000; Parker-Wiener Series, Parkes Center, University of Southampton & Wiener Library).

Lynn Rapaport is Associate Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at Pomona College. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University. She is the author of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the 1998 Most Distinguished Publication Award in the Sociology of Religion from the American Sociological Association. She is currently working on a project on how the Holocaust is portrayed in popular culture.

Warren Rosenberg is Professor of English at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he teaches American literature, gender studies, and literature and film. His book, Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture, was published in 2001 by the University of Massachusetts Press.

Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky writes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and on Jewish-American literature and culture. Another essay on Woody Allen, "The Catskills Reinvented (and Redeemed): Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose," is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review.

Liliane Targownik was born in Munich. After her graduation from the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in Munich she worked as a director, scriptwriter, TV and radio journalist, and documentary filmmaker, in Germany and Israel. She has finished her studies at Tel Aviv University with an M.A. in Jewish Philosophy. She has lectured on scriptwriting at the Filmakademic Baden-Württemberg, the Hochschule für Fernsehsn und Film in Munich, the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, and the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School in Jerusalem. Her films include Don't Look at That (1982); Forbidden Help (1984); Zwischenspiel (1988); Moving (1991); and Rosenzweigs Freiheit (1997/98), for which she won the "D.A.G. Fernsehpreis in Gold" (German Union's TV award). In 2002 she was nominated for the German Script Award for the script H.O.M.E.

Anat Zanger is Lecturer in the Department of Film & Television, Tel Aviv University. She earned a Ph.D. from the School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University, with a dissertation on "Originality as Repetition: The Case of Carmen and Jeanne d'Arc" (in English). Her post-doctorate work was done at Media Studies at MIT. Her subjects of research and teaching interests include: mythology and cinema, narrative and historiography, Israeli cinema, intertextuality, and gender and postmodernism. She has published on the cinematic trailer, the remake, the historical trauma, Israeli war and women, and nostalgia and territory in Israeli cinema; her work has been published by Semiotica, Framework, Assaf, Moutar, the SUNY Press, and the Shazar and Porter Institute (in Hebrew). Dr. Zanger is completing a book, The Film Spectator and the Screen, for the Open University at Tel Aviv.