Contributors
Alexey Izmalkov is a PhD student at Tel Aviv University's Tisch School of Film and Television, where he previously earned his MA in Film Studies. He researches Russian cinema, film propaganda, post-modernism, and identity issues. He has contributed essays on Soviet and post-Soviet films to various English, Hebrew, and Russian publications.
Geoffrey Levin is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University and the Director of Undergraduate Engagement at Emory's Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. He holds a PhD in Hebrew & Judaic Studies/History from New York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies. His work has appeared in Israel Studies Review, Arab Studies Journal, American Jewish History, Israel Affairs, and Shofar. Levin's first book, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978, was published by Yale University Press in November 2023.
Monika Rice is Robert Weiner and Ilan Peleg Scholar in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Russian and East European Studies at Lafayette College. Her first book, "What! Still Alive?!" Jewish Survivors in Poland and Israel Remember Homecoming (Syracuse University Press, 2017) was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Rice's current research investigates the complex postwar identities of Polish-Jewish doctors. Her other publications have appeared in edited volumes and academic journals including Yad Vashem Studies, Holocaust Studies, Polin, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Nashim, and others.
Joseph Voignac holds a BA and MPhil in modern European history from the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on Zionism in France in the 1930s and on the history of Jewish education in France (« Du « judaÏsme musculaire » au Bac Bleu Blanc : le sionisme à l'école MaÏmonide », Archives Juives. Revue d'histoire des Juifs de France, n° 54/2, 2nd semestre 2021 ; « La communauté juive française et le sionisme dans les années 1930 à travers L'Univers israélite », Archives Juives. Revue d'histoire des Juifs de France, n°51/1, 1st semestre 2018). In May 2022, he published a book on the history of France's first Jewish secondary school: Juive et Républicaine, l'école Maïmonide, Paris, Éditions de l'Antilope, 2022.
