The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in Modern Times

-- Norman A. Stillman, Middle East Quarterly

Ammiel Alcalay teaches at Queens College, New York Eliezer Bashan teaches in the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University in Israel Issachar Ben-Ami is a senior researcher and lecturer in the Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem David M. Bunis teaches in the Department of Romance Studies and Jewish Languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Joseph Chetrit is vice rector of the University of Haifa, where he teaches linguistics and is director of the Center for the Study of Jewish Culture in Spain and Muslim Countries David Cohen is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Research of Pioneer and Zionist Movements in Muslim Lands at the Yad Tabenkin Foundation, Ramat Ef'al Jane S. Gerber is professor of Jewish history and director of the Institute for Sephardic Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Joseph B. Glass lectures in the Department of Geography at the Rothberg International School and is the academic coordinator of the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies, both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harvey E. Goldberg teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem George E. Gruen has taught at Columbia University and Brooklyn College and was the director of Middle East Affairs at the American Jewish Committee from 1962 to 1990 Esther Juhasz teaches in the Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ruth Kark teaches in the Geography Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mark Kligman is associate professor of Jewish musicology at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, where he specializes in the liturgical traditions of Middle Eastern Jewish communities Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman teaches history at the Open University of Israel Jacob M. Landau is professor emeritus of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Michael Menachem Laskier teaches in the Department of Middle East History at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, and chairs the Political Science Department at Ashqelon Academic College in Israel Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim teaches at New York University, Fordham, and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Sara Reguer chairs the Department of Judaic Studies of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, publishes in the fields of Jordan River politics, the history of Jewish women, World War I, and Palestine under the British mandate Aron Rodrigue is the Eva Chernov Lokey Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of history at Stanford University Haim Saadoun is dean of students at the Open University of Israel and teaches at Haifa University Haideh Sahim specializes in ancient Iranian linguistics and worked on the Encyclopaedia Iranica from 1989 to 1998 Reeva Spector Simon: Since 1993 she has been the assistant director of the Middle East Institute, Columbia University Rachel Simon is an independent scholar at Princeton University. She publishes widely on the Middle East and North Africa Zvi Zohar is a senior research fellow at the Shalom Hartmen Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies in Jerusalem and at Bar-Ilan University; he is also a founding faculty member of Paideia -- The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden