American Jewish History

Contributors

Janice W. Fernheimer is Zantker Charitable Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, and James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits Faculty Fellow at the University of Kentucky and co-director, along with Dr. Karen Petrone, of the UK-Jewish Heritage Fund Holocaust Education Initiative. She directed the UK Interdisciplinary Program in Jewish Studies from 2012–2022 and received the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Diversity and Inclusion for its programmatic impact in 2019. She is the author of Stepping Into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity (University of Alabama Press, 2014) and co-editor along with Michael Bernard-Donals of Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice (Brandeis University Press, 2014).

Jonathan L. Friedmann is professor of Jewish music history and academic dean of the Master of Jewish Studies Program and Rabbinical School at the Academy for Jewish Religion California, president of the Western States Jewish History Association, and director of the Jewish Museum of the American West. He is the author or editor of thirty books, most recently Torah, Service, Deeds: Jewish Ethics in Transdenominational Perspectives (Ben Yehuda, 2023) and Jewish Historical Societies: Navigating the Professional-Amateur Divide (Texas Tech University Press, 2023).

Jeffrey Shandler is distinguished professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University. He is the author, editor, or translator of sixteen books on modern and contemporary Jewish culture. Forthcoming is Homes of the Past: The Story of a Lost Museum (Indiana University Press).

Avery Weinman is a PhD student in the UCLA Department of History. She earned her Master's in History from UCLA in 2020 and her bachelor's in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2019. She has been published in Tel Aviv Review of Books and hosts episodes of the New Books Network series in Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies, and Israel Studies.

Book Reviews

Chad Alan Goldberg is Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and an affiliate of the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (2017) was a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards and the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Prize from the Association for Jewish Studies.

Michael Keren is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary and Professor of Political Science at the Western Galilee Academic College. He co-authored with Dr. Shlomit Keren the book We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War (2010).

Shira Kohn is a member of the high school history faculty at the Dalton School in New York City. She is co-editor, with Hasia Diner and Rachel Kranson, of A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America (2010).

Paul C. Mishler is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at Indiana University. His research is on the history of radical social movements in the United States, and he is the author of Raising Reds: Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps and Communist Political Culture in the US (1999)

Naomi Taub recently completed her PhD in English at the University of Illinois. Her dissertation, "Distant Proximities: Whiteness and Worldedness in Contemporary Jewish Literature," explores the circulation of racial identities in post-1948 Jewish literature from the United States, South Africa, Israel, and Britain.