NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Robert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written on the European and American novel, on modern Hebrew literature, and on literary aspects of the Bible. His most recent books are Hebrew and Modernity (Indiana University Press, 1994) and Genesis: Translation and Commentary (Norton, 1996).

David Biale is Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History (Harvard University Press, 1974), Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History (Schocken, 1986), and Eros and the Jews (University of California Press, 1997). He is currently editing a three-volume cultural history of the Jews.

Mitchell Cohen is co-editor of Dissent magazine and professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is the author of The Wager of Lucien Goldmann (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Zion and State (Columbia University Press, 1992), and has edited Princeton Readings in Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 1996, with Nicole Fermon) and Rebels and Reactionaries: An Anthology of Great Political Short Stories (Dell, 1992).

Michael Galchinsky is the author of The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer (Wayne State University Press, 1996) and, as Visiting Skirball

Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, is editing an anthology of Anglo-Jewish women's writings. His other scholarly interests include the relation between American Jews and popular culture. He teaches English literature and women's studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.

Michael Gluzman teaches comparative literature at Tel Aviv University. His book The Politics of Canonicity: Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry will be published by Stanford University Press. He is co-editor (with Naomi Seidman) of Israel: A traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 1996). He is currently working on a book-length study of Zionist masculinity entitled "The Zionist Body."

Cheryl Greenberg is an associate professor of history at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches African American and twentieth-century American history; she was also a Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. Her first book, "Or Does It Explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression , was published in 1991 by Oxford University Press. Her current project, a political history of black-Jewish relations in the twentieth century, is tentatively entitled "Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations from Leo Frank to Louis Farrakhan."

Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the editor of On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader (Schocken, 1983) and co-editor, with Rachel Biale, of a forthcoming anthology of feminist readings of classical Jewish texts (University of California Press). She is also the author of a monograph on Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus which will be published by the University of Chicago Press, and co-editor, with Robert Ericksen, of the forthcoming The German Churches under Hitler (Fortress Press).

Sara R. Horowitz is director of the Jewish Studies Program and associate professor of English literature in the Honors Program at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (New York: SUNY Press, 1997) and is currently completing a book called "Gender, Genocide, and Jewish Memory." She has published on Holocaust literature, women survivors, Jewish-American fiction, and pedagogy. She is founding co-editor of KEREM: A Journal of Creative Explorations in Judaism and has served as fiction advisory

editor for Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook, edited by A. Shapiro, S. Horowitz, E. Schiff, and M. Glazer (Greenwood Press, 1994).

Amy Newman teaches philosophy at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. She has recently published essays in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and Hypatia .

Naomi Seidman is an assistant professor of Jewish culture at the Center for Jewish Studies of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (University of California Press, 1997).

Michael Walzer is a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the co-editor of Dissent magazine, a contributing editor of the New Republic, and the author of Just and Unjust Wars (Basic Books, 1977), Spheres of Justice (Basic Books, 1983), Company of Critics (Basic Books, 1988), and, most recently, On Toleration (Yale University Press, 1997).

Hana Wirth-Nesher is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University and head of the Department of English. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and essays on American, British, and Jewish fiction. She is also the editor of What Is Jewish Literature? (Jewish Publication Society, 1994), New Essays on Call It Sleep (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and the Sheila Carmel Lectures.