Edited by Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford

Jeremy Cohen, Professor of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, and David Sorkin, Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Martin Goodman, Oxford
Alan Cooper, Jewish Theological Seminary
John Collins, Yale
Seth Schwartz, Jewish Theological Seminary
Catherine Hezser, Trinity College, Dublin
Ram Ben-Shalom, Open University, Israel
Mark Cohen, Princeton
Israel Ta-Shma, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph Dan, Berlin
Eli Yassif, Tel Aviv
Tova Rosen, Tel Aviv
Meira Polliack, Tel Aviv
Sarah Stein, Washington
Elisheva Carlebach, Queens College, City University of New York
David Rechter, Oxford
Michael Stanislawski, Columbia
Saul Friedlander, Tel Aviv
Ilan Troen, Ben Gurion
Hasia Diner, New York
Pablo Isaac Halevi (Kirtchuk), Ben Gurion
Glenda Abramson, Oxford
Cecilia Kuznitz, Georgetown
Ora Schwarzwald, Bar Ilan
Geoffrey Khan, Cambridge
Ilan Stavans, Amherst
Bernard Jackson, Manchester
Michael Fishbane, Chicago
Elliot Wolfson, New York University
Lawrence Hoffman, Hebrew Union College, New York
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tal Ilan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sergio Della Pergola, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Lee Levine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Phil Bohlman, Chicago
Gad Kaynar, Tel Aviv
Ahuva Belkin, Tel Aviv
Moshe Zimerman, Tel Aviv
Wolfgang Benz, TU-Berlin
Galit Hasan-Rokem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harvey Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Winner of National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council in New York

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