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John M. Dixon is associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. A historian of colonial New York and the Atlantic world, and a former fellow of New York University's Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, he is currently completing a history of Jews in the early modern Americas.

Eric Eisner is a PhD student in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil in American History from the University of Cambridge, and a JD from Yale Law School. His work has appeared in the Journal of Religious History, Southern Jewish History, Law and History Review, and the Yale Law Journal.

David Austin Walsh is a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and a College Fellow at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right, which will be published in 2024 by Yale University Press.

Beth S. Wenger is Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History and associate dean for graduate studies in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage (Princeton University Press, 2010); New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise; and The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America. Wenger has worked on numerous public history projects, including museum exhibitions and documentary films.

Public History Review

Rebecca Rossen is associate professor in the performance as public practice program in the department of theatre and dance at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance (Oxford University Press, 2014), which won the Oscar G. Brockett Prize for excellence in dance scholarship.

Book Reviews

Marjorie N. Feld is professor of history at Babson College, where she teaches courses on US labor and gender history, food justice, and sustainability. Her forthcoming book is titled Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism. [End Page ix]

David A. Gerber is professor emeritus at the University of Buffalo (SUNY). He is the author of, among other titles, American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011) and, with Alan Kraut, Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America's Immigration Story (Rutgers University Press, 2013). His appreciation "Leonard Dinnerstein (1934–2019): The Historian and His Subject" appeared in the January /April 2021 issue of American Jewish History.

Rachel Gordan is assistant professor of religion and Jewish studies at the University of Florida, where she is Samuel "Bud" Shorstein Fellow in American Jewish Culture. Her forthcoming book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American, will be published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.

Rachel B. Gross is associate professor and John and Marcia Goldman Chair in American Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. Her book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice (New York University Press, 2021) was a 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist in American Jewish Studies.

Jessica Kirzane is an assistant instructional professor of Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor-in-chief of In_geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies. She is the translator of several works by Miriam Karpilove: Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle of Free Love (Syracuse University Press, 2020); Judith (Farlag Press, 2022); and A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories (Syracuse University Press, 2023). [End Page x]

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