Jewish Social Studies

Yael Ben-Zvi is a doctoral candidate in the Modern Thought and Literature Program at Stanford University. She works on colonialism and nationalism in American literature and culture.

Raya Cohen is a lecturer in the Jewish History Department of Tel Aviv University. She is the author of Ben "sham" le-"khan": Sipurim shel edim la-hurban, Shvaits 1939–1942 (1999).

Amir Eshel is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Zeit der Zäsur: Jüdische Dichter im Angesicht der Shoah (1999). His current work is on the poetic figuration of history in art and literature.

Bluma Goldstein, Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Reinscribing Moses: Heine, Kafka, Freud, and Schoenberg in a European Wilderness (1992). Currently, she is completing a series of essays on representations of deserted wives in German, Yiddish, and American texts.

Ken Koltun-Fromm is Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford College. He is completing a book on Moses Hess.

Anita Shapira is the Ruben Merenfeld Professor of Zionism at Tel Aviv University. Among her books are Berl: A Biography of a Socialist Zionist (1984) and Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force, 1881–1948 (1992).

Rachel Simon is the author of Libya Between Ottomanism and Nationalism (1987) and Change Within Tradition Among Jewish Women in Libya (1992). She is now writing a book on Jewish youth movements in Libya. [End Page 175]