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Contributors, Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 134–136, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjz026
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LEORA BATNITZKY is Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000); Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006); and How Judaism Became a Religion (2011), as well as the editor of several books. Her research interests include modern Jewish thought and intellectual history, legal and political philosophy, and philosophy religion and hermeneutics. She is currently working on two book length projects: a comparative study of conversion controversies in Israel and India, and a study of the Jewish apostate and Catholic saint, Edith Stein.
MICHAEL BRENNER is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and holds the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University, where he directs the Center for Israel Studies. He is the International President of the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Science, the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Italy, and the American Academy for Jewish Research. Among his book publications, translated in over ten languages, are: In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea (2018); A Short History of the Jews (2010); and Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History (2010). His most recent book (edited) is A History of Jews in Germany since 1945 (2018).
