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Zev Eleff is president of Gratz College and professor of American Jewish history.

Geraldine Gudefin is a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, and a fellow at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include Jewish family life, legal pluralism, religion and state, and the migration experiences of Jews in France and the United States. She is currently working on two book manuscripts, respectively entitled "Bigamists on Trial: Jewish Families and American Law in the Age of Mass Migration" and "Un Impossible Divorce. Les Juifs d'Europe de l'Est en France, entre Loi Civile et Loi Religieuse, 1900–1939."

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a PhD student in Yale University's Department of History, where he specializes in American Jewish history, political economy, and US race history. His dissertation will explore the Jewish debates and tensions over the centralization of the American state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a specific focus on the Jewish involvement in politics of race and liberalism. His most recent article appeared in Southern Jewish History and studied Jewish mayors in the politically turbulent post-Civil War South.

Walker Robins is a lecturer in history at Merrimack College. His work focuses on American Christian relations with Israel/Palestine and has appeared in the Journal of Church and State, Journal of Southern Religion, Baptist History & Heritage Journal, and Israel Studies. He is the author of Between Dixie and Zion: Southern Baptists and Palestine Before Israel (University of Alabama Press, 2020).

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Dianne Ashton was professor emerita in the Philosophy & World Religions department at Rowan University. She is the author of Hanukkah in America: A History (New York University Press, 2013) and the former editor of American Jewish History. She published widely on Jewish women in America.

Marc Dollinger holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University. He is author, most recently, of Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The Alliance In The 1960s (Brandeis University Press, 2018).

Kathleen D. McCarthy is professor of history and director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include (among others) American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700–1865 and Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830–1930 (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Hannah S. Pressman, a scholar of Jewish languages and literatures, is director of education and engagement for the Jewish Language Project, an initiative of HUC-JIR. She is currently at work on Galante's Daughter, a memoir connecting her Sephardic family history to explorations of American Jewish identity.

Edward S. Shapiro is professor emeritus of history at Seton Hall University and the author of A Time for Healing: American Jewry since World War II (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), We Are Many: Reflections on American Jewish History and Identity (Syracuse University Press, 2005), and Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot (Brandeis University Press, 2006). His book A Unique People in a Unique Land: Essays in American Jewish History is forthcoming from Academic Studies Press.

Adi Sherzer is a Fulbright fellow at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley. In addition, he serves as a researcher at the research hub "World Jewry: Views from Israel" at Azrieli Center for Israel Studies, Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev.

Ashley Walters is assistant professor of Jewish studies at the College of Charleston and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture. Her current book project explores romantic relationships between East European Jewish women and Anglo-American intellectuals and writers on the radical left in the early twentieth century United States.

Deborah R. Weiner is an independent historian, curator, editor, and co-author (with Eric L. Goldstein) of On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

Saul Noam Zaritt is Associate Professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Jewish American Writing and...