Contributors

JEREMY ADLER is a professor emeritus and senior research fellow at King’s College London and a member of the German Academy. He specializes in German and Comparative Studies, including Literature and Anthropology. His books include biographies of Goethe and Kafka. His brief monograph on the new edition of Mein Kampf offers a fundamental critique of the whole project. He has published about 20 articles, collections, and editions concerning the Holocaust.

CRISTINA M. BETTIN is a professor of Italian Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is a social historian, who has published numerous articles and books on Italian Jewry, with a focus on Jewish and Italian identities, Jewish memories, and the historical relationship between Italy, British Palestine, and Israel before, during, and after World War II. In 2018, together with De. Samuele Rocca, she co-founded the Museum of the Jewish Brigade in Milan, where she serves on the academic board. She is also the President of the Association of Italian Scholars and Scientists in Israel.

JAY HOWARD GELLER is the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (USA), where he teaches Jewish history and the history of modern Europe. He is the author of The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction (2019) and Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 (2005).

AGNIESZKA JAGODZINSKA is a professor in the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her general academic interests focus on Jewish literature, culture, and history in the context of Jewish/non-Jewish interactions in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She has authored, edited, and co-edited numerous publications on topics such as acculturation and integration of Polish Jews, and the Jewish press and literature. She is a member of the Centre for Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the University of Wrocław.

MENACHEM KEREN-KRATZ is an independent scholar. He holds a PhD in Yiddish literature from Bar-Ilan University, and an additional PhD in Jewish history from Tel-Aviv University. A prolific author, he has published over 60 articles in academic and semi-academic publications. His most recent books are: The Zealot: The Satmar Rebbe—Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum (Jerusalem, 2020; in Hebrew) and Zealotry and Piety: Jewish Hungarian Orthodoxy (forthcoming, in English).

SAMUELE ROCCA is a senior lecturer at Ariel University and Haifa University. As a social and military historian, Dr Rocca’s research and many publications focus on Jews and Judaism during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the military history of the Jewish people. In 2018, together with Dr Cristina Bettin, Dr Rocca co-founded the Museum of the Jewish Brigade in Milan, where he serves on the academic board. He is also an associate editor of the journal Ancient Mediterranean East.