Author Listings (Jewish)
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| Stephen H. Norwood (Ph.D., Columbia University) is professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Centur....[more] |
| Bruce Chilton (Ph.D. from Cambridge, 1976) is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism. He wrote the first critical commentary on the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum, 1987), as well as academic studies that analyze Jesus in his Judaic context (A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible, 1984; The Temple of Jesus, 1....[more] |
| Josef Meri is an American-born scholar of Medieval Islamic history, the history of religions and interfaith relations. Born in Chicago, Dr. Meri has travelled extensively and has lived in Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem, London, and Oxford. He has spent the last five years in Amman, Jordan affiliated to the Royal Aal al-Bay....[more] |
| Dr. Samuel P. Oliner (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Humboldt State University, and Founder and Director of the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, an international peer-reviewed ....[more] |
| Professional genealogist, historical researcher, archival consultant and author residing in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Topics that I have written about include Jewish genealogy, American Jewish history and synagogue architecture. My latest project is a pictorial history of West Virginia's Jewish Community ....[more] |
| I am a Sephardic Jew born in Baghdad. Escaped at age 10
to Israel, through Iran. I have retired and authored 2 books:
1. Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad and the return
2. History of the Jews and Israel
Please go to my website at www.saulsilasfathi.com
read the stories and see the hundreds of photos and
links....[more] |
| I majored in East Asian studies with concentration on China. I spend one year at Donghai University in Taiwan as part of the Oberlin in Taiwan program and got "hooked" on classical Chinese language. I spent my senior year reading the Chinese classics in the original language along with Chinese commentary.
After severa....[more] |
| Stephen Wilson is an author and advertising professional. Several of his screenplays have been awarded staged readings at the American Film Institute. He also wrote and directed the film, "Inside Jokes" which received a "Best Comedy" award at the independent film festival held each year in Las Vegas, NV.
His next bo....[more] |
| Tom Wood is a journalist and historian living in Nashville, his hometown.
Wood was the co-editor (with John Egerton) of Nashville: An American Self-Portrait (Beaten Biscuit Press, 2001). This multi-author project set out to portray the many dimensions of a rapidly changing city. In addition to Wood and Egerton, con....[more] |
| Shmuel Yosef Agnon (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) is an important figure in modern Hebrew fiction. He is best known for his novels about the experience of Eastern European Jews. Agnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966. Agnon is often referred to as Shai Agnon. In English, Agnon’s works are publ....[more] |
| Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975) was German Jewish self-described political theorist. She is considered by many to be one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Arendt’s subject matter revolved around political theory, modernity, and the philosophy of history. She....[more] |
| Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 - died June 13, 1965)— died June 13, 1965) Buber born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in Jerusalem. He was the son of Carl Buber and Elise Wurgast, who divorced when he was three years old, and for the next ten years he was raised by his grandparents, Solomon and Adele Buber. He was....[more] |
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