Richard I. Cohen
is the former academic director of the Israel Center of Research Excellence (I-Core) for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World (Daat Hamakom) and Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His publications include, The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust, and, Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe. He is also co-editor and co-curator of From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600–1800; and of, Le Juif Errant: Un témoin de temps. He has recently co-edited Spiritual Homelands: The Cultural Experience of Exile, Place and Displacement among Jews and Others.
David Engel
is Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University. In addition to Facing a Holocaust: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1943–1945, and In the Shadow of Auschwitz: The Polish Government-in-Exile and the Jews, 1939–1942, he is also the author of Between Liberation and Flight: Holocaust Survivors in Poland and the Struggle for Leadership, 1944–1946 (in Hebrew), and The Assassination of Symon Petliura and the Trial of Scholem Schwarzbard, 1926–1927: A Selection of Documents.
Semion Goldin
is a senior research fellow at the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Ph.D. dissertation focused on Russian government policy towards Jews from 1914 to 1917, and it appeared as monograph in Russian in 2017. He has taught at the Hebrew University and at the University of Haifa, and has published numerous articles on various aspects of Russian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish histories in the twentieth century.
François Guesnet
is Reader in Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. He specializes in the early modern and nineteenth-century history of Eastern European, and, more specifically, of Polish Jews. His publications include Polnische Juden im 19. Jahrhundert: Lebensbedingungen, Rechtsnormen und Organisation im Wandel (1998), and with Glenn Dynner, Warsaw: The Jewish Metropolis (2015). He is co-chair of the Editorial Board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry.
is Segal Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History at McGill University. He is the author of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of Modernity, and of The Jews in a Polish Private Town: The Case of Opatów in the Eighteenth Century. He also served as editor in chief of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.
Hanan Harif
is a lecturer at the Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Deputy Chair of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East. He is the author of For We Be Brethren: The Turn to the East in Zionist Thought (2019). His current project is an intellectual biography of S. D. Goitein.
Elliott Horowitz, z”l
(1953–2017) was editor of The Jewish Quarterly Review (2004–2017), and taught medieval and early modern Jewish history at Bar Ilan University. He was also the Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford (2015–2016). His publications include Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence (2006), and “Look to the Rock from Which You Were Hewn”: Hebraica and Judaica at Balliol College (2016).
Paweł Maciejko
is Associate Professor of History and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816 (2011) Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschütz’s Va-avo ha-yom el ha-ayyin (2014), and Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity (2017).
Jonatan Meir
is a Full Professor in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His field of research is Modern Jewish History, with a focus on the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah), Hasidism, and twentieth-century Kabbalah. His publications include Imagined Hasidism: The Anti-Hasidic Writings of Joseph Perl (2014); Joseph Perl, Sefer Megale Temirin, annotated edition (2014); Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem, 1896–1948 (2016); Literary Hasidism: The Life and Works of Michael Levi Rodkinson (2016); and, Gershom Scholem, History of the Sabbatian Movement (2018).
is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. His books include Shylock’s Children: Economics and Jewish Identity in Modern Europe (2001), Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006), Jews and the Military: A History (2013), and Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020).
Michael K. Silber
is the Cardinal Franz Koenig Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Austrian Studies, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he served as the head of the department between 2003 and 2006. From 2008 until 2017, he was the Chair of the Executive Board of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford and Yale. His research focuses on early modern and modern Jewish history, in particular the history of Jews of Hungary and the Habsburg Empire. His publications include Jews in the Hungarian Economy, “The Emergence of Ultra-Orthodoxy: The Invention of a Tradition,” “From Tolerated Aliens to Citizen-Soldiers: Jewish Military Service in the Era of Joseph II,” and, “The Making of Habsburg Jewry: Continuity and Change in the Long Eighteenth Century.”
Nancy Sinkoff
is the Academic Director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. Her research focuses on modern Ashkenazic Jewry, particularly the Jews of Poland, in both its European heartland and diaspora settlements. Her books include Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands (2004), the reissue of Lucy S. Dawidowicz’s memoir, From that Place and Time, 1938–1947: A Memoir, and the co-edited volume (with Rebecca Cypess) Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin (2018). Her most recent monograph is From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (2020).
Scott Ury
is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University’s Department of Jewish History where he is also Director of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. He is author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012), and co-editor of Jews and Their Neighbors in Eastern Europe since 1750 (2012), Cosmopolitanism,
Marcin Wodziński
teaches at the University of Wrocław, Poland, where he directs the Department of Jewish Studies and is Professor of Jewish history and literature. His most recent publications include Historical Atlas of Hasidism (2018), and Hasidism: Key Questions (2018).