NOTES ON ADVISERS AND CONTRIBUTORS

ABRAMOVICH, Dvir. Jan Randa Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature and Language, University of Melbourne, Australia; chairperson, Hebrew Culture Department, State Zionist Council, Melbourne; and vice president, Australian Association for Jewish Studies. Editor of Australian Journal for Jewish Studies. Author of numerous scholarly articles, including "Israeli Detective Fiction: The Case of Batya-Gur and Shulamit Lapid," "Rape and Violence in Amos Oz's Fiction," and "He Who Rocks the Cradle: The Glorification of Fatherhood and the Attack on Motherhood in the Amos Oz Corpus," all in Australian Journal for Jewish Studies, and "The Bipolar Dichotomy in the Representation of Ageing in the Amos Oz Canon," in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Essays: Haim Gouri; Uri Zvi Greenberg; Atrocity; The Chocolate Deal; House of Dolls; Star Eternal; Streets of the River: The Book of Dirges and Power; Sunrise over Hell.

ACHBERGER, Karen. Professor of German, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Author of Understanding Ingeborg Bachmann and Literatur als Libretto: Das deutsche Opernbuch seit 1945. Contributor of articles to numerous journals and reference books, including New German Critique, Modern Austrian Literature, German Quarterly, Text & Kritik, Monatshafte, East Central Europe, and The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Essays: Ingeborg Bachmann; Malina: A Novel.

ADAMCZYK, Kazimierz. Assistant professor of Polish literature, Polonia Institute, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Author of Dziennik Jako Wyzwanie: Lechon, Gombrowicz, Herling-Grudzinski. Essays: Tadeusz Borowski; Adam Czerniaków; Henryk Grynberg; Kazimierz Moczarski; Krystyn Olszewski; Janusz Nel Siedlecki; Child of the Shadows; The Conversations with an Executioner; This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen; The Victory; The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniaków; We Were in Auschwitz.

ALFERS, Sandra. Visiting instructor, Department of German Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Essays: Ruth Klüger; Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered.

BAER, Gregory. Assistant professor of modern languages and director of honors, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Author of reviews for GDR Bulletin, msnbc.com , and Monatshefte. Essays: Jurek Becker; Edgar Hilsenrath; Bronstein's Children; Jacob the Liar; The Nazi and the Barber; Night.

BAER, Ulrich. Associate professor of German, New York University. Author of Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan and of numerous articles on trauma theory, photography, and nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature. Editor of "Niemand Zengt fur den Zengen": Erinnerungskultur nach der Shoah. Essays: Paul Celan; "Death Fugue."

BAHR, Ehrhard. Professor of German, University of California at Los Angeles, and formerly president, German Studies Association and Goethe Society of North America. Author of The Novel As Archive as well as books on Goethe, Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, and Nelly Sachs. Editor of three-volume history of German literature and coeditor of The Internalized Revolution. Essays: Nelly Sachs; Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel ; "O the Chimneys!"

BALL, David. Professor of French and comparative literature, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Translator of Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology. Contributor to numerous journals, including Les Temps Modernes, Modern Philology, Revue de Litérature Comparée, Études Anglaises, The Massachusetts Review, The Germanic Review, and Translation Review. Author of six poetry chapbooks. Essays: Anne Sexton; The Awful Rowing toward God.

BALL, Nicole. Lecturer in French, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Translator of several books from French into English and English into French, including Maryse Condé's Pays mêlé (as Land of Many Colors ) and Jonathan Kellerman's Survival of the Fittest (as La Sourde ). Essays: Patrick Modiano; Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'étoile, La Ronde de nuit, Les Boulevards de ceinture.

BAMMER, Angelika. Associate professor of humanities and comparative literature, Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Author of Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianism in the 1970s. Editor of Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question. Contributor to Medicine and the History of the Body; Borders, Exiles, Diasporas; Encountering the Other(s): Studies in Literature; History and Culture; and a special issue of German Quarterly on "Sites of Memory." Essays: Yitzhak Katzenelson; The Song of the Murdered Jewish People.

BAUM, Rachel. Lecturer, Departments of English and Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Contributor of essays to scholarly publications, including College Literature and Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma. Essays: Carl Friedman; Nightfather; The Shovel and the Loom.

BELLMAN, Samuel I. Professor emeritus, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Author of studies of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Constance Mayfield Rourke. Contributor to numerous journals, including Kansas Review, Southern Quarterly, Saturday Review of Literature, Southwest Review, Arizona Review, The Literary Review, Descant, Short Story, Women and Language, and Platt Valley Review, as well as essays for reference publications, including Representations of Education in Literature, American Women Writers, and Encyclopedia of British Humorists. Essays: E. L. Doctorow; City of God.

BENSON, Renate. Professor emerita of German and European studies, University of Guelph, Ontario. Author of Erich Kästner: Studien zu seinem Werk and German Expressionist Drama: Ernst Toller and George Kaiser, as well as several studies of Anne Hébert's short fiction. Contributor to The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theater and The International Dictionary of Theater. Translator of French Canadian literary works into German and English. Essays: Ilse Aichinger; Heinrich Böll; And Where Were You, Adam?; Herod's Children.

BERENBAUM, Michael. Chair, Berenbaum Group, Los Angeles, and adjunct professor of theology, University of Judaism, Los Angeles. Formerly Ida E. King Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies, Richard Stockton College; Strassler Family Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies, Clark University; president and chief executive officer, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation; director, United States Holocaust Research Institute, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; and Hymen Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology, Georgetown University. Producer and consultant on Holocaust-related films, including One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story and Desperate Hours. Author and editor of 12 books, including After Tragedy and Triumph, The Vision of the Void: Theological Reflections on the Works of Elie Wiesel, and Witness to the Holocaust: An Illustrated Documentary History of the Holocaust in the Words of Its Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders.

BERGER, Alan L. Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University, and formerly Visiting Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Author of Crisis and Covenant and Children of Job. Editor of Judaism in the Modern World and coeditor of Second Generation Voices and Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. Contributor to numerous journals, including Studies in Jewish American Literature, Modern Judaism, Saul Bellow Journal, Modern Language Studies, Literature and Belief, and Judaism. Essays: Helen Epstein; Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History.

BERKE, Jacqueline. Professor emerita of English and codirector of the Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Author of Watch Out for the Weather (with Vivian Wilson) and Berke's Twenty Questions for the Writer. Contributor to numerous journals and anthologies, including The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in America and New Perspectives on the Holocaust: A Guide for Teachers and Scholars. Essays: Ida Fink; The Journey; A Scrap of Time and Other Stories; Traces.

BLAHA, Franz. Associate professor, Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Author of numerous essays on comparative popular culture, twentieth-century drama, and German/Austrian poetry and drama. Essays: Miklós Radnóti; Clouded Sky.

BLOCH, Felicity. Freelance reviewer and writer, Melbourne, Australia. Editor and translator of I Rest My Case, a memoir of interwar Polish Jewry by her father, Mark Verstandig. Essays: Maria Lewitt; Come Spring: An Autobiographical Novel.

BRODSKY, Patricia Pollock. Professor of German and Russian, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Contributor to numerous journals, including Delos, Poets and Writers, Slavic and East European Journal, Denver Quarterly, Borderlines, and Comparative Literature. Author of Rainer Maria Rilke and Russia in the Works of Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as a number of scholarly articles, including "The Hidden War: Working-Class Resistance during the Third Reich and the Postwar Suppression of Its History," in Nature, Society and Thought, and "Nomen ist Omen: Towards a Definition of Cultural Identity," in Germano-Slavica. Essays: Yevgeny Yevtushenko; "Babii Yar."

BROWN, Sharon. Instructor of literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Author of American Travel Narratives as a Literary Genre from 1542-1832: The Art of a Perpetual Journey and "Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca," in The Literature of Travel and Exploration. Essay:Austerlitz.

BUDICK, Emily. Professor of American literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Author of Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation, Engendering Romance: Women Writers and the Hawthorne Tradition, 1850-1990, and Fiction and Historical Consciousness: The American Romance Tradition. Essays: Amos Oz; Aryeh Lev Stollman; The Far Euphrates; Touch the Water, Touch the Wind.

BURCH, Steven Dedalus. Visiting assistant professor, Department of Communication Arts, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Contributor to numerous publications, including Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, David Mamet Review, and Oxford Companion to U.S. Culture. Essays: Tony Kushner; Arthur Miller; Harold Pinter; Ashes to Ashes; A Bright Room Called Day; Incident at Vichy.

BUSH, Andrew. Director of Jewish studies and professor of Hispanic studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Author of The Routes of Modernity: Spanish-Mexican Poetry from the Early-Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Contributor to numerous journals and scholarly publications, including Diacritics and Comparative Literature. Essays: Luba Gurdus; Abraham Lewin; A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto; The Death Train: A Personal Account of a Holocaust Survivor; "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner."

CAMMY, Justin D. Lecturer in Jewish studies and comparative literature, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Translator of Hinde Bergner's In the Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in Galicia. Contributor of scholarly articles and reviews to Polin , The Forward , Midstream , and Boston Book Review. Essays: Abraham Sutzkever; Di Festung.

CAPORINO, Grace Connolly. Adjunct professor of graduate seminar in Holocaust education, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York, and visiting lecturer on Holocaust education, Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Contributor to numerous publications, including Remembering the Future: The Holocaust in the Age of Genocide and Teaching for a Tolerant World. Essays: Yehuda Nir; The Lost Childhood: A Memoir.

CERF, Steven R. Skolfield Professor of German, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Contributor of numerous articles to Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Studies, Colloquia Germanica, Revue de la Litérature Comparée, and Opera News. Essays: Friedrich Dürrenmatt; Richard Glazar; Wolfgang Hildesheimer; The Quarry; Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka; Tynset.

COHEN, Josh. Lecturer in English, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Author of Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing and Interrupting Auschwitz: Art, Religion, Philosophy. Essays: Georges Pérec; W, or the Memory of Childhood.

DACE, Tish. Chancellor Professor of English, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; chair, Maharam Foundation/American Theatre Wing/Hewes theatrical design awards, New York; and member, Executive Committee of the American Theatre Critics Association. Author of Langston Hughes: The Contemporary Reviews, as well as more than one thousand essays, articles, book chapters, and play reviews. New York critic for Plays International in London. Essays: Martin Sherman; Bent.

EAGLESTONE, Robert. Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway, University of London. Author of Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial, Ethical Criticism: Reading after Levinas, and Doing English, as well as numerous articles on contemporary European philosophy, historiography, twentieth-century literature, and Holocaust representation. Series editor for Routledge Critical Thinkers. Essays: Robert Antelme; Saul Friedlander; Kitty Hart; Sarah Kofman; Olga Lengyel; Filip Müller; David Rousset; Jorge Semprun; D. M. Thomas; Rudolf Vrba; Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers; Five Chimneys; The Human Species; I Am Alive!; I Cannot Forgive; Literature or Life; The Long Voyage; Return to Auschwitz: The Remarkable Story of a Girl Who Survived the Holocaust; Rue Ordener, Rue Labat; Stifled Words; What a Beautiful Sunday!; When Memory Comes; The White Hotel; A World Apart.

ERSPAMER, Peter R. Adjunct professor of English and history, Mount Senario College, West Allis, Wisconsin. Author of The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The "Jewish Question" from Lessing to the Napoleonic Wars, 1997. Contributor to Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996, Reader's Guide to Judaism, and Literature and Ethnic Discrimination. Essays: S.Y. Agnon; Edith Bruck; Etty Hillesum; Piotr Rawicz; Elie Wiesel; The Accident; Blood from the Sky; Dawn; The Forgotten; The Gates of the Forest; An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-43; Letters from Westerbork; Night; One Generation After; "The Sign"; The Town Beyond the Wall; Who Loves You like This.

EZRAHI, Sidra DeKoven. Professor, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jersualem. Author of By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature and Booking Passage: Exile and Home-coming in the Modern Jewish Imagination.

FAYE, Esther. Lecturer, Jewish Studies Program, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Australia. Contributor to numerous historical, literary, and psychoanalytic journals. Essays: Lily Brett; In Full View.

FERNEKES, William R. Supervisor of social studies, Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington, New Jersey. Author of The Oryx Holocaust Sourcebook and coauthor of Children's Rights: A Reference Handbook. Contributor to numerous professional journals and reference publications, including Social Education, The Social Studies, Social Science Record, The Holocaust's Ghost, and Teaching Holocaust Literature. Essays: Hirsh Glik; Zog Nit Keynmol.

FISCHER, Jaimey. Assistant professor of German, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. Author of numerous articles on intellectual history and film studies. Coeditor of Critical Theory: Current State and Future Prospects. Essays: Claude Lanzmann; Shoah.

FORAY, Jennifer L. Writing instructor, Columbia University, New York. Coeditor of Columbia Historical Review, 2001-2002. Essays: Jacques Presser; Night of the Girondists, or Breaking Point.

FREADMAN, Richard. Professor of English and director of the Unit for Studies in Biography and Autobiography, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Author of Eliot, James, and the Fictional Self: A Study in Character and Narration and Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will, as well as numerous journal articles. Coeditor of On Literary Theory and Philosophy: A Cross-discipli-nary Encounter and Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory. Coauthor of Re-thinking Theory: A Critique of Contemporary Literary Theory and an Alternative Account. Essays: Susan Varga; Arnold Zable; Heddy and Me; Jewels and Ashes.

GANEVA, Mila. Visiting assistant professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Contributor to Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture and Chicago Art Journal. Essays: Eugene Heimler; Gert Hofmann; Die Denunziation; Night of the Mist; Veilchenfeld.

GARBER, Zev. Professor and chair of Jewish studies, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, California, and formerly visiting professor of religious studies, University of California at Riverside, and president, National Association of Professors of Hebrew. Editor-in-chief of Studies in Shoah and coeditor of Shofar. Author of Methodology in the Academic Teaching of Judaism, Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust, Teaching Hebrew Language and Literature at the College Level, Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide, and Perspectives on Zionism. Consultant editor to What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein, Peace, In Deed: Essays in Honor of Harry James Cargas, and Academic Approaches to Teaching Jewish Studies. Editorial advisor to Western States Jewish History. Essays: Jacob Glatstein; William Heyen; Martin Niemöller; Nechama Tec; Simon Wiesenthal; Aaron Zeitlin; Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood; Erika: Poems of the Holocaust; Exile in the Fatherland: Martin Niemöller's Letters from Moabit Prison; I Keep Recalling: The Holocaust Poems of Jacob Glatstein; Lieder fun churban 'on lieder fun gloybin; The Sunflower.

GAROFALO, Piero. Assistant professor of Italian, University of New Hampshire. Coeditor of Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema 1922-1943. Contributor to numerous journals, including Quaderni d'italianistica, Rivista di studi italiani, and Italian Culture. Essays: Elsa Morante; History: A Novel.

GAWLIŃSKI, Stanisław. Associate professor of Polish studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Author of Szkola Poetycka Józefa Czechowicza w Okresie Miedywojennym: Elementy Socjologii i Poetyki and Polityczne Obowiazki: Odmiany Powojennej Prozy Politycznej w Latach 1945-1975, as well as articles on emigrant settlements and modern Polish literature. Coauthor of Polish Literature 1918-1975. Essays: Tadeusz Różewicz; Bogdan Wojdowski; Bread for the Departed; Collected Poems.

GERSTLE, Ellen. Adjunct professor, Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey. Coordinator of writing workshops for Holocaust survivors at the Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study. Contributor to Studies in American Jewish Literature. Essays: Philip Roth; "Eli, the Fanatic"; The Ghost Writer; Operation Shylock: A Confession; Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue.

GIGLIOTTI, Simone. Lecturer in history, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and visiting postdoctoral fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Formerly instructor of modern European history and the Holocaust, University of Melbourne, Australia. Essays: Mark Baker; The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory.

GILLMAN, Abigail. Assistant professor of German and Hebrew, Boston University. Has published articles on Franz Kafka, Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and the history of German-Jewish Bible translation. Essays: Yehuda Amichai; Not of this Time, Not of this Place.

GLASER, Michael S. Professor of literature and creative writing, as well as founder and director, annual summer literary festival, St. Mary's College of Maryland. Author of three volumes of poetry: A Lover's Eye, In the Men's Room and Other Poems, and Michael Glaser's Greatest Hits, 1975-2000. Editor of The Cooke Book: A Seasoning of Poems and Weavings 2000. Contributor of poetry to Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, American Scholar, Midstream, and Jewish Frontier. Essays: Adrienne Rich; "Eastern War Time."

GOLDENBERG, Myrna. Professor of English and director of the Humanities Institute, Montgomery College, Maryland. Contributor to numerous journals and books, including Feminist Studies, Women in the Holocaust, Holocaust Literature, Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide, Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature, Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Essays: Aharon Appelfeld; Badenheim 1939; The Immortal Bartfuss; The Retreat; Tzili: The Story of a Life.

GOLDSHLAGER, Alain. Professor of French, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and national director, Canada-Israel Foundation for Academic Exchanges. Formerly president, Canadian Comparative Literature Association and the Canadian Semiotic Association. Has written extensively on nineteenth-and twentieth-century French literature, the philosophy of language, discourse analysis, and anti-Semitic discourse (German, French, and Russian). Author of Simone Wiel et Spinoza and Building History: Art, Memory, and Myth (with Naomi Kramer). Editor of Scientific Discourse as prejudice-carrier/Le Discours scientifique comme porteur de préjugés and La Shoah: Temoignage impossible? Essays: Edmond Jabés; Albert Memmi; The Book of Questions; Pillar of Salt.

GRUETTNER, Mark. Associate professor of German and chair, Department of Ancient and Modern Languages, Centenary College, Hackettstown, New Jersey. Author of Intertextualität und Zeitkritik in Günter Grass' "Kopfgeburten" und "Die Rättin." Essays: Günter Grass; From the Diary of a Snail; The Tin Drum.

GUINEY, M. Martin. Associate professor of French, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Contributor to numerous scholarly publications, including Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Gide and Politics, Selected Proceedings of the 19th-Century French Studies Conference, Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Masterplots: Twentieth Anniversary Revised Edition, Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series, Dreams in French Literature, and Bulletin des Amis d'André Gide. Essays: Pierre Gascar; Germaine Tillion; Ravensbrück; The Season of the Dead.

GUNTHER, Stefan. Academic program manager, Graduate School, USDA. Author of reviews of The Stories of David Bergelson and Politik mit der Erinnerung. Essays: Walter Abish; Bernhard Schlink;W. G. Sebald; Art Spiegelman; The Emigrants ; "The English Garden"; How German Is It; Maus—a Survivor's Tale; The Reader.

HALIO, Jay L. Professor of English, University of Delaware, Newark. Author of Angus Wilson and Philip Roth Revisited, as well as several books on Shakespeare's plays in performance. Editor of numerous collections of essays on modern fiction. Essays: Bernard Malamud; "The German Refugee"; "The Lady of the Lake"; "The Last Mohican."

HARRAN, Marilyn J. Stern Chair in Holocaust Education, director, Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, and professor, religious studies and history, Chapman University, Orange, California. Formerly associate, United States Holocaust Museum, and instructor, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York. Author of two books and editor of a book on church history. Contributor to The Holocaust Chronicle, The Encyclopedia of Religion, and The Encyclopedia of the Reformation. Essays: Thomas "Toivi" Blatt; Gerda Weissmann Klein; Miklos Nyiszli; Gisella Perl; All but My Life; Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account; From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival; I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz.

HATHAWAY, Heather. Associate professor of English and codirector, University Honors Program, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Author of Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall, as well as several book reviews for African American Review. Coeditor of Race and the Modern Artist and Conversations with Paule Marshall. Contributor to numerous publications, including Beyond the Binary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context, Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, and Reader's Guide to Literature in English. Essays: Charles Reznikoff; Holocaust.

HAWKINS, Beth. Assistant professor of English, Depauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. Author of Reluctant Theologians: Kafka, Celan, Jabés, as well as numerous articles, including "Madness in the Face of Silence," in Genre, and "The Washing of the Word/The Washing of the World: Paul Celan and the Language of Sanctification," in Shofar. Essays: Kadya Molodowsky; Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky.

HOBOT, Joanna. Assistant professor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Author of Playing Games with Censorship in Polish Poetry (1968-1976). Essays: Marek Edelman; Wladyslaw Szpilman; The Ghetto Fights; The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45.

HOFFMAN, Michael. Professor of English, University of California at Davis. Author of The Development of Abstractionism in the Writings of Gertrude Stein, The Buddy System (a novel), The Subversive Vision: American Romanticism in Literature, and Gertrude Stein. Editor of Critical Essays on Gertrude Stein, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, and Critical Essays on American Modernism. Has contributed numerous essays and book reviews to scholarly journals. Essays: John Hersey; Jerzy Kosinski; Notes of the Author on the Painted Bird; The Painted Bird; Steps; The Wall.

HOLTSCHNEIDER, K. Hannah. Junior research fellow, Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge University, England. Author of German Protestants Remember the Holocaust: Theology and the Construction of Collective Memory and "JüdInnen in Deutschland: Eine Kritische Untersuchung der Theologie Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardts," in Von Gott reden im Land der Täter? Theologische Perspektiven der Dritten Generation nach Auschwitz. Essays: Jean Améry; At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities; Radical Humanism: Selected Essays.

IOANID, Radu. Director, International Archival Programs Division, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Author of The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944, and The Sword of the Archangel: Fascist Ideology in Romania. Editor of Mihail Sebastian, Journal 1935-1944, The Fascist Years. Essays: Mihail Sebastian; Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years.

JACOBSON, Manfred. Professor, Department of Modern Languages, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Translator of The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin 1910-1940 (with Evelyn Jacobson). Author of numerous articles on nineteenth-century German literature. Essay:Vittel Diary.

KAPLAN, Eran. Postdoctoral fellow, University of Toronto. Contributor to numerous journals, including Journal of Israeli History. Essays: Dahn Ben-Amotz; To Remember, to Forget.

KARCZ, Andrzej. Assistant professor of Polish language and literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Author of The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism. Contributor to numerous scholarly journals, anthologies, and reference publications, including Polish Review, Teksty Drugie, Ethos, Zagadnienia Rodzajow Literackich, Sarmatian Review, Postscriptum, Encyclopedia of the Essay, Studia o Stanislawie Vincenzie, Proza Polska w Kregu Religijnych Inspiractji, and Encyclopedia of Life Writing. Essays: Adolf Rudnicki ; Ascent to Heaven.

KAY, Avi. Dean of students and associate professor of psychology, Touro College, Jerusalem. Has served as an educational consultant to the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and Poppers-Prins Foundation of Holland. Essays: Jack Kuper; Child of the Holocaust.

KLÍMA, Cynthia A. Associate professor, State University of New York, Geneseo. Contributor to Reader's Guide to Judaism and History in Dispute: The Holocaust. Author of "Theater-Zauberworte!: The Prager Kreis and the German Theater," in Journal of the Kafka Society of America. Has written numerous book reviews for Slavic and East European Journal and Monatshefle. Essays: Josef Bor; Rachmil Bryks; Yaffa Eliach; Erich Fried; Ladislav Fuks; Bernard Kops; Arnošt Lustig; Eva Mändlová Roubíčková; Yitzhak "Antek" Zuckerman; A Cat in the Ghetto: Four Novelettes; Darkness Casts No Shadow; Diamonds of the Night; Dreams of Anne Frank: A Play for Young People; Ghetto Factory 76: Chemical Waste Conversion; Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust; The Last Jew; Mr. Theodore Mundstock; Night and Hope; A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova; A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; The Terezín Requiem; Trost und Angst: Erzählungen über Juden und Nazis; The Unloved: From the Diary of Perla S.; We're Alive and Life Goes On: A Theresienstadt Diary.

LANGER, Lawrence L. Professor emeritus of English, Simmons College, Boston. Author of numerous books on Holocaust literature, testimony, and art, including The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, 1977, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, 1991, Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays, 1995, Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, 1995, Preempting the Holocaust, 1998, and In a Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak, 2001.

LEAMAN, Oliver. Professor of philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Editor of Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. Coeditor of Encyclopedia of Death and Dying. Essays: Charlotte Delbo; Aharon Megged; Auschwitz and After; Di ershte Nakht in Geto; Green Aquarium; Hannah Senesh.

LEVINSON, Julian. Assistant professor of English and Judaic studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of numerous articles for professional journals, including "Transmitting Yiddishkeit: Irving Howe and Jewish-American Culture," in Jewish Culture and History, Winter 1999, and "Derac(e)inated Jews," in Postmodern Culture, Spring 1999. Essays: Arthur A. Cohen; Cynthia Ozick; In the Days of Simon Stern; The Messiah of Stockholm; "Rosa"; "The Shawl."

LIGĘZA, Wojciech. Associate professor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Author of Jasniejsze Strony Katastrofy: Szkice o Twórczosci Poetów Emigracyjnych and Jerozolima i Babilon: Miasta Poetów Emigracyjnych. Coauthor and editor of "Ktokolwiek Jestes bez Ojczyzny—": Topika Polskiej Poezji Emigracyjnej, Wiatr nas nosi po Swiecie: Antologia Polskiej Poezji Zolnierskiej, 1939-1945, Grudki Kadzidla, and Pamiec Glosów: o Twórczosci Aleksandra Wata. Contributor to numerous Polish literary and cultural magazines, including Pamietnik Literacki, Teksty Drugie, Ruch Literacki, Prace Polonistyczne, and Archiwum Emigraczi. Essays: Jerzy Ficowski; Wladyslaw Szlengel; Co czytalem umarlym; A Reading of Ashes: Poems.

LINDSAY, Mark R. Lecturer, Department of History, and subdean, Faculty of Arts, University of Western Australia, Crawley. Author of Covenanted Solidarity: The Theological Basis of Karl Barth's Opposition to Nazi Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Contributor to numerous scholarly publications, including Karl Barth: A Future for Postmodern Theology?, Remembering for the Future, and Companion to Modern Theology. Essays: André Schwarz-Bart; The Last of the Just.

LOENTZ, Elizabeth. Assistant professor of German, University of Illinois at Chicago. Author of Negotiating Identities: Bertha Pappenheim ('Anna O.') as German-Jewish Feminist, Social Worker, Activist and Author, 1999. Essays: Irena Klepfisz; Gertrud Kolmar; Dark Soliloquy: The Selected Poems of Gertrud Kolmar; "Di rayze aheym/ The journey home."

McGLOTHLIN, Erin. Assistant professor of German, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and formerly guest lecturer, University of Dortmund, Germany. Author of Remembering Memory: The Holocaust and the "Second Generation," as well as essays on Ruth Klüger and Jean Améry. Essays: Robert Menasse; Wings of Stone.

McLOUGHLIN, Maryann. Assistant supervisor, Holocaust Resource Center, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Contributor to numerous publications, including Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery, Clues: A Journal of Detection, Transformations, and CEA Forum. Essays: Livia E. Bitton-Jackson; Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust.

MARKUS, Andrew. Director, Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation , Monash University, Victoria. Author of Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia and Australian Race Relations. Coeditor of The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights: A Documentary History. Essays: Giuliana Tedeschi; Avraham Tory; Mark Verstandig; I Rest My Case; Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary; There Is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau.

MAYOR, Alisa Gayle. Scientific translator and editor, BIOSIS, Philadelphia, and formerly visiting scholar, Department of Slavic Languages, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Contributor to numerous journals and books, including Modern Czech Studies, Czech Language News, Reader's Guide to Judaism, 2000, and Biographical Dictionary of Enlightenment and Revolution, 2002. Essays: Anatoli Kuznetsov; Mordecai Richler; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Babi Yar: A Documentary Novel.

METER, Alejandro. Assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American literature, University of San Diego, California. Contributor of articles on Latin American Jewish Writers. Essays: Jorge Luis Borges; "Deutsches Requiem"; The Secret Miracle.

MEYER, STEPHEN. Associate editor, Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Essays: "Landscape of Screams"; "Shibboleth."

NAKHIMOVSKY, Alice. Professor and chair, Department of Russian, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Author of Russian-Jewish Literature and Identity and Witness to History: The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei, as well as other books and essays on Russian twentieth-century literature and Russian-Jewish writers. Essays: Dan Pagis; Kol Ha-shirim: "Aba."

NEWMAN, Margie. Instructor of English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and lecturer on the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors. Author of the short story "But Does He Speak Yiddish?" in Outlook, 2001. Essays: Vladka Meed; On Both Sides of the Wall.

NEWTON, Adam Zachary. Associate professor of English, University of Texas at Austin. Author of Narrative Ethics, Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space in 20th Century America, The Fence and the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel among the Nations, and The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance. Contributor to numerous journals, including ALH, Narrative, SAQ, Prospects, and Social Identities. Essays: David Grossman; A. B. Yehoshua; Mr. Mani; See Under: Love.

ORENSTEIN, Eugene. Associate professor of Jewish studies, McGill University, Montreal. Contributor to Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur, Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (Vol. 2), and The Canadian Jewish Mosaic, 1981. Co-translator of Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Essays: Herman Kruk; Togbukh fun Vilner Geto.

ORLA-BUKOWSKA, Annamaria. Professor of sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.

OSBORN, Jan M. Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Chapman University, Orange, California; faculty coordinator, Chapman University/Orange High School Literacy Partnership; and co-coordinator, Annual Holocaust Writing Contest, sponsored by the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University. Essays: Chaim Potok; The Chosen; My Name Is Asher Lev.

PARTSCH, Cornelius. Assistant professor, Department of German Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Author of Schräge Töne: Jazz und Unterhaltungsmusik in der Kultur der Weimarer Republik. Essays: Bertolt Brecht; The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

PATTERSON, David. Bornblum Chair in Judaic Studies, University of Memphis, Tennessee. Coeditor of Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. Author of 20 books, including Sun Turned to Darkness, Along the Edge of Annihilation, and The Shriek of Silence, as well as 90 articles and book chapters. Essays: Silvano Arieti; Alexander Donat; Emil Dorian; Moshe Flinker; Janusz Korczak; Isabella Leitner; Sara Nomberg-Przytyk; Emmanuel Ringelblum; Yitskhok Rudashevski; Hannah Senesh; Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land; The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto: June 1941-April 1943; Fragments of Isabella: A Memoir of Auschwitz; Ghetto Diary; Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary; The Holocaust Kingdom; Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum; The Parnas: A Scene from the Holocaust; The Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary 1937-1944; Young Moshe's Diary: The Spiritual Torment of a Jewish Boy in Nazi Europe.

PENTLIN, Susan Lee. Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg. Author of Effect of the Third Reich on the Teaching of German in the United States: A Historical Study, 1977, and The Holocaust in Memory: Selected Papers, 1996. Essays: Mary Berg ; Warsaw Ghetto: A Diary.

PIERCE, Peter. Professor of Australian literature, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. Author of The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety, Australian Melodramas: Thomas Keneally's Fiction, and From Go to Whoa: A Compendium of the Australian Turf. Editor of The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia and The Poet's Discovery: 19th Century Australia in Verse. Essays: Thomas Keneally; Schindler's List.

PINSKER, Sanford. Professor of English, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and formerly coeditor, Holocaust Studies Annual. Has written extensively on Jewish literature and culture. Essays: Leslie Epstein; Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail; King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust.

PLOTKIN, Diane. Professor of Holocaust studies and world literature, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas. Coauthor and editor of Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust. Contributor to a number of scholarly publications, including Problems Unique to the Holocaust and The Pall of the Past: The Holocaust, Genocide, and the 21st Century. Essays: Elie Aron Cohen; Human Behaviour in the Concentration Camp: A Medical and Psychological Study.

POLAK, Alan. Member, Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield, England. Essays: Chaim A. Kaplan; Jaroslaw Rymkiewicz; Jean-François Steiner; The Final Station: Umschlagplatz; Scroll of Agony: The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan; Treblinka.

RAWSON, Judy. Senior lecturer emeritus and formerly chair, Department of Italian, University of Warwick, England. Translator of The History of Florence by Niccolo Machievelli. Editor of Manchester University Press edition of Ignazio Silone's Fontamara. Contributor to numerous journals, including Modern Language Review, Italian Studies, and Journal of the Association of Teachers of Italian. Essays: Giorgio Bassani; The Garden of the Finzi-Contini; A Plaque on via Mazzini.

REID, Allan. Professor and chair, Department of Culture and Language Studies, University of New Brunswick, Canada, and formerly president, Canadian Association of Slavists. Book review editor, Canadian Slavonic Papers, and member of the editorial board, International Fiction Review. Author of Literature as Communication and Cognition in Bakhtin and Lotman. Contributor to numerous scholarly journals, including The World and I, Russkii iazyk za rubezhom, Linguistica Silesiana , S—European Journal for Semiotic Studies, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Discours social/Social Discourse, and Reports on Philosophy. Coeditor of Isaak Babel issue of Canadian Slavonic Papers. Translator of articles by Efim Etkind, Stanislaw Beres, and Stefan Kozak. Essays: Halina Birenbaum; Czesław Miłosz; Manés Sperber; Wisława Szymborska; Hope Is the Last to Die: A Coming of Age under Nazi Terror; Like a Tear in the Ocean; Ocalenie; Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997.

REITTER, Paul. Professor of German, Ohio State University. Author of numerous articles, essays, and reviews for scholarly journals and reference publications, including Germanic Review, The Nation, Shofar, Encyclopedia of German Literature, and Internationales Germanistenlexikon, 1800-1950. Essays: Victor Klemperer; George A. Steiner; I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years; The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H.

ROGACHEVSKII, Andrei. Lecturer in Russian, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow. Author of The Rhetorical Tradition in Pushkin's Oeuvre. Coeditor of special issues of Canadian-American Slavic Studies on East and Central European Émigré Literatures, 1999, "Bribery and Blat in Russia," 2000, "Russian Jews in Great Britain," 2000, and "Russian Writers on Britain," 2001. Essays: Anatolii Rybakov; Heavy Sand.

ROSENBERG, Edgar. Professor of English and comparative literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and formerly visiting professor, Stanford University, California, and University of Haifa, Israel. Author of From Shylock to Svengali, as well as two monographs on the Jewish figure in Elizabethan and eighteenth-century drama. Editor of Norton Critical Series edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, 1999. Contributor of essays, translations, and fiction to a number of magazines and scholarly journals, including Commentary, Judaism, Esquire, and Epoch. Essays: Heinar Kipphardt; Erich Maria Remarque; Ernst Wiechert; Bruder Eichmann; The Forest of the Dead; Joel Brand: Die Geschichte eines Geschäfts; The Night in Lisbon; Spark of Life.

ROSENBLUM, Joseph. Independent scholar. Contributor to numerous reference books and journals, including Dictionary of Literary Biography, Encyclopedia of Romanticism, and The Book Collector. Essays: Peter Gay; Isaac Bashevis Singer; Enemies: A Love Story ; "The Lecture"; "The Letter Writer"; My German Question: Growing up in Nazi Berlin.

ROSENFELD, Alvin H. Professor of English and director, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington. Author of numerous books and articles on Holocaust literature, American Jewish literature, and American poetry, including A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature, 1980, Imagining Hitler, 1985, and Thinking about the Holocaust: After Half a Century, 1997.

ROTH, John K. Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. Author of more than 30 books, including A Consuming Fire: Encounters with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust, 1979, Approaches to Auschwitz, with Richard L. Rubenstein, 1979, Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications, with Michael Berenbaum, 1989, Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust, with Carol Rittner, 1993, Ethics after the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques and Responses, 1999 , and Holocaust Politics, 2001.

RUDERMAN, Judith. Vice provost for academic and administrative services and adjunct professor of English, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Author of D.H. Lawrence and the "Devouring Mother," as well as books on William Styron and Joseph Heller. Contributor of articles and reviews to D.H. Lawrence Review, Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, and English Literature in Transition. Essays: William Styron; Sophie's Choice.

RUSSELL, Susan. Assistant professor of theatre arts, Department of Theatre Arts, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, and formerly assistant, Empty Space Theatre, Seattle, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, and Utah Shakespearean Festival. Directed American premiere of George Tabori's Jubilee at Valparaiso University, 1995. Author of "The Possibilities for Brechtian Theory in Contemporary Theatrical Practice: George Tabori's Jubilee, " in Verkörperte Geschichtsentwürfe: George Taboris Theaterarbeit, 1998. Essays: Thomas Bernhard; Erwin Sylvanus; George Tabori; The Cannibals; Dr. Korczak and the Children; Heldenplatz; Jubiläum; Mutters Courage.

RUTLAND, Suzanne. Chair, Department of Semitic Studies, University of Sydney, Australia, and president, Australian Jewish Historical Society. Author of Edge of the Diaspora: Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia and Pages of History: A Century of the Australian Jewish Press. Newsletter editor, Australian Association for Jewish Studies. Essays: Abraham Biderman; The World of My Past.

SACHS, Murray. Professor emeritus of German and comparative literature, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Author of The Career of Alphonse Daudet: A Critical Study, 1965, The French Short Story in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Anthology, 1969, and Anatole France: The Short Stories, 1974. Contributor to numerous reference works and journals, including Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (2nd edition), St. James Press Guide to Biography, St. James Reference Guide to Short Fiction, PMLA, The French Review, Romanic Review, L'Esprit Créateur, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, ADFL Bulletin, Romance Quarterly, and Modern Language Review. Essays: Albert Camus; A.M. Klein; Collected Poems; The Fall; The Plague; The Second Scroll.

SANDERS, Ivan. Adjunct professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University, New York. Translator of works by György Konrád, Péter Nádas, Milá Füst, and Péter Esterházy. Contributor of articles and studies to New York Times Book Review, New Republic, The Nation, Judaism, and Jewish Social Studies. Essays: Imre Kertész; Fateless; Kaddish for a Child Not Born.

SCHLANT, Ernestine. Professor emerita and formerly professor of German and comparative literature, Montclair State University, New Jersey. Formerly assistant producer, Cinema Arts Associates, New York; associate professor of German, State University of New York, Stony Brook; and instructor of French, Spelman College, Atlanta. Editor and contributing author of Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan, 1991. Translator and author of books, textbooks, articles, and reviews, including Die Philosophie Hermann Brochs, 1971, Hermann Broch, 1978, and The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust, 1999. Contributor to Germanic Review, German Studies Review, Modern Austrian Literature, and Modern Fiction Studies, among others.

SCHMITZ, Walter. Chair, German Literature Department, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. Coauthor of numerous books, including Max Frisch, Gesammelte Werke in zeitlicher Folge, and Bettine von Arnim: Politische Schriften. Essays: Hans Habe; Wolfgang Koeppen; Hanna Krall; Jakob Littners Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch: Roman; The Mission; Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

SCHNEIDER, Gerd K. Professor of German, Syracuse University, New York. Author of Die Rezeption von Arthur Schnitzlers Reigen 1897-1994. Contributor to numerous journals and encyclopedia, including Modern Austrian Literature, Jura Soyfer: Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Encyclopedia of German Literature. Essays: Max Frisch; Stefan Zweig; Andorra: A Play in Twelve Scenes; Biedermann and the Fire Raisers: A Morality Without a Moral; Now They Sing Again: Attempt of a Requiem; The Royal Game; The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography.

SCHRECKENBERGER, Helga. Professor of German, director of women's studies, and affiliated faculty member of the Holocaust Program, University of Vermont, Burlington. Author of publications on Erich Maria Remarque, Gullaume Apollinaire, Gerhard Roth, Felix Mitterer, Henize R. Unger, and others. Translator of works by Gerhard Roth and Elfriede Jelinek. Contributor to The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature and Modern Germany: An Encyclopedia of History, People, and Culture, 1871-1990. Essays: Bertha Ferderber-Salz; Eva Figes; Jakov Lind; And the Sun Kept Shining; Counting My Steps: An Autobiography; Landscape in Concrete; Little Eden: A Child at War; "Soul of Wood."

SCHRÖER, Olav. Member, Institute for Advanced Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, and formerly DAAD-Lecturer in the Division of Foreign Languages, Tel Aviv University. Cowriter of "Shalom Hamlet. Israeli-German Meetings on Stage," a one-hour program for German television, 1998. Essays: Peter Weiss; The Investigation.

SCRASE, David. Professor of German and director of Holocaust studies, University of Vermont, Burlington. Author and translator of numerous books and articles on modern German literature. Essays: Bruno Apitz; Louis Begley; Cordelia Edvardson; Marga Minco; Jiří Weil; Bitter Herbs: A Little Chronicle; Burned Child Seeks the Fire: Memoir; Life with a Star; Naked among Wolves; Wartime Lies.

SHAVITSKY, Ziva. Head, Department of Hebrew Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, and president, Australian Association for Jewish Studies. Contributor of numerous articles to the journals Abr-Nahrain and Australian Journal of Jewish Studies. Essays: Yoram Kaniuk; Abba Kovner; Adam Resurrected; A Canopy in the Desert; My Little Sister.

SILVERMAN, Lisa. Member, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Author of "'Der Richtige Riecher': The Reconfiguration of Jewish and American Identities in the Work of Doron Rabinovici," in German Quarterly, 1999. Essays: Robert Schindel; "Errinerungen an Prometheus"; Gebürtig.

SPARGO, R. Clifton. Assistant professor, Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and formerly Paul Resnick Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000-2001. Contributor to numerous journals, including Studies in Romanticism, Religion and the Arts, Representations, and Mosaic. Essays: Meyer Levin; Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust; The Fanatic; My Father's House; The Stronghold.

STAHL, J.D. Associate professor of English, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Author of Mark Twain, Culture, and Gender. Contributor to numerous scholarly journals, including American Literature, Studies in 20th Century Literature, Mark Twain Journal, The Hollins Critic, Phaedrus, and Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Essays: Uri Orlev; The Island on Bird Street; The Man from the Other Side.

STANFEL, Rebecca. Freelance writer. Essays: Chaim Grade; Jean-Paul Sartre; The Condemned of Altona; Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.

STERLING, Eric. Associate professor of English, Auburn University-Montgomery, Alabama. Contributor to numerous journals and scholarly publications, including European Studies Journal, Denise Levertov: New Perspectives, and Moral Problems Unique to the Holocaust. Author of articles on Janusz Korczark, Rolf Hochhuth, Nelly Sachs, Arthur Miller, Yitzhak Wittenberg, Shimon Wincelberg, and others. Essays: Fania Fénelon; Anne Frank; Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; Barbara Lebow; Denise Levertov; Joshua Sobol; Adam; Diary of a Young Girl; The Diary of Anne Frank; During the Eichmann Trial; Ghetto; Playing for Time; A Shayna Maidel; Underground.

SUTRO, Martha. Freelance writer. Essays: Gerhard Durlacher; Itzik Manger; Frank Stiffel; Drowning: Growing up in the Third Reich; My Hate Song; Stripes in the Sky: A Wartime Memoir; The Tale of the Ring: A Kaddish; "Zürich, the Stork Inn."

SVENDSEN, Christina. Contributor to Virginia Quarterly Review and Harvard Advocate. Editor of several travel guides, including Let's Go: Rome 2000 and Let's Go: Austria and Switzerland 1999. Essays: Italo Calvino; The Path to the Nest of Spiders.

TEJERIZO, Margaret. Lecturer in Russian, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow. Editor of the journal Rusistika. Author of articles on Unamuno and Russian literature, César Vallejo and Maiakovskii, Zamiatin in the British Press, and Russian language teaching methodologies. Essays: Vasily Grossman; Life and Fate.

TRAVIS, Molly Abel. Associate professor of English, Tulane University, New Orleans. Author of Reading Cultures: The Construction of Readers in the Twentieth Century. Contributor to Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators' Seduction and to the journals Narrative, Mosaic, and Women's Studies. Essays: Geoffrey Hill; "September Song"; The Triumph of Love; "Two Formal Elegies."

TUERK, Richard. Professor of literature and languages, Texas A & M University, Commerce. Author of Central Still: Circle and Sphere in Thoreau's Prose. Contributor to many journals, including MELUS, Modern Jewish Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, Prospects, New York Historical Society Quarterly, and American Literary Realism. Essays: Saul Bellow; Leon Uris; Mila 18; Mr. Sammler's Planet.

TURIM, Maureen. Professor of English and film studies, University of Florida, Gainesville. Author of Abstraction in Avant-Garde Films, Flashbacks in Film: Memory and History, and Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast, as well as more than 60 essays for anthologies and journals on cinema, video, art, cultural studies, feminist and psychoanalytical theory, and comparative literature. Essays: Edward Lewis Wallant; The Pawnbroker.

VICE, Sue. Reader, Department of English Literature, University of Sheffield, England. Author of Psychoanalytical Criticism: A Reader, Introducing Bakhtin, and Holocaust Fiction. Essays: Binjamin Wilkomirski; Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood.

WAGENER, Hans. Professor of German, University of California at Los Angeles. Author of The German Baroque Novel, 1973, Erich Kästner, 1973, Stefan Andres, 1974, Siegfried Lenz, 1976, Frank Wederkind, 1979, Carl Zuckmayer, 1983, Gabriele Wohmann, 1986, Sarah Kirsch, 1989, Understanding Erich Maria Remarque, 1991, Understanding Franz Werfel, 1993, Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame, 1995, Lion Feuchtwanger, 1996, and René Schickele: Europäer in neun Monaten, 2000. Essays: Lion Feuchtwanger; The Oppermans.

WALDEN, Daniel. Professor emeritus of American studies, English, and comparative literature, Pennsylvania State University, State College. Author of several books, including On Being Jewish: American Jewish Literature from Cahan to Bellow, Twentieth Century American Jewish Fiction Writers, and Conversations with Chaim Potok. Contributor to numerous journals, including Studies in American Jewish Literature, Profils Americains, and Resources in American Literary Studies. Editor of Studies in American Jewish Literature. Essays: Philip Roth; "Eli, the Fanatic"; The Ghost Writer; Operation Shylock: A Confession; Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue.

WEINER, Binyomin. Translator of Yiddish and Hebrew. Contributor to numerous journals, including The Pakn Trager, Killing the Buddha, The Forward, and Di Pen. Essay:My Mother's Sabbath Days.

WEITZMAN, Lenore. Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Sociology and Law, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Author of several books and coauthor of Women in the Holocaust.

WILKES, George R. Lecturer, Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations and Cambridge Theological Federation, England. Author of "Changing Attitudes to the 'European-ness' of the Holocaust and Its Victims," in Remembering for the Future 2000. Essays: Sholem Asch; Romain Gary; Rolf Hochhuth; Eugen Kogon; The Dance of Genghis Cohn; The Deputy; One Destiny: An Epistle to the Christians; The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them.

WILLIAMS, Ralph G. Professor and associate chair, Department of English, and formerly director, Program on Studies in Religion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Editor and translator of Marcus Hieronymus, De Arte Poetica. Coeditor of Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities. Essays: Primo Levi; The Drowned and the Saved; If Not Now, When?; The Periodic Table; The Reawakening; Survival in Auschwitz.

WOOLF, Linda M. Associate professor of psychology and coordinator of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri. Member, American Psychological Association's Ethnopolitical Task Force Cadre of Experts. Essays: Bruno Bettelheim; Viktor E. Frankl; The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age; Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy.

YOUNG, James E. Chair, Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Author of Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust, The Art of Memory, and At Memory's Edge. Editor of The Texture of Memory. Essay: Introduction.

YOUNGBLOOD, Robert B. Associate professor of German and Italian, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Author of articles in German and Italian for a number of international publications, including Atti dell'instituto di cultura venezia, Quaderni di studi sveviani dell'universita' di Trieste, and Hochschulschriften der Universität Würzburg. Essays: Natalia Ginzburg; What We Used to Say.

ZAPRUDER, Alexandra. Independent scholar and writer. Author of Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. Curator of Private Writings, Public Records: Young People's Diaries of the Holocaust, Holocaust Museum, Houston, 2002. Essays: Eva Heyman; Dawid Sierakowiak; The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto; The Diary of Eva Heyman: Child of the Holocaust.

ZUCCOTTI, Susan. Independent scholar, New York. Formerly instructor, Holocaust and French history, Barnard and Columbia Colleges, New York, and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Author of The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue and Survival, 1987, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews, 1993, and Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy, 2000. Essays: Liana Millu; Smoke over Birkenau.