Dr. Mark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department
of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is also a Research Associate in
UC’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education & Culture and a Visiting
Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion. He teaches courses on the American Jewish experience, modern
Jewish history, and Zionist history. Professor Raider has served as the Project
Director for the Posen Foundation Education Project and has been integral in
the program's development and growth. His most recent book is Nahum Goldmann:
Statesman Without a State (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009).
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Dr. Allan Arkush, who served as a faculty member for the May
2011 Posen Seminar in New York, is Professor of Judaic Studies and History at
Binghamton University. His research investigates Jewish responses to modern
thought as well as modern thinkers' assessments of Jews and Judaism. Professor
Arkush lent his expertise in the writings of Moses Mendelssohn to a special
session at the New York seminar. Professor Arkush, Senior Contributing Editor
of the Jewish Review of Books, is the author of Perspectives on Jewish Thought
and Mysticism: Essays in Memory of Alexander Altmann, co-edited with Alfred
Ivry and Elliot Wolfson (Middlesex: Harwood Press, 1998).
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Dr. Andrea Lieber, who served as a faculty member for
the February 2011 Posen Seminar in Miami, holds the Sophia Ava Asbell Chair in
Judaic Studies and is Associate Professor of Religion at Dickinson College. Her
scholarship addresses Judaism and early Christianity, Jewish mysticism
(kabbalah), and women and gender in Jewish tradition. She was instrumental in
creating a global studies initiative called “Jewish Immigration to Latin
America: A Case Study in Secular Jewish Identity” at Dickinson. Professor
Lieber is a member of the Posen Foundation's Academic Advisory Committee for
the university grant program on the study of secular Jewish history and
cultures. Professor Lieber’s most recent book is Heavenly Tablets:
Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism (Leiden: Brill,
2007).
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Dr. Robert Seltzer, who
served as a faculty member for the May 2011 Posen Seminar in New York, is
Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate School of The City
University of New York. He is also Director of the Hunter College
interdisciplinary program in Jewish Social Studies. An expert on Simon
Dubnow, his scholarship has explored Jewish intellectual and cultural
history, especially Judaism's encounter with modernity. He is the author of Jewish
People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History (New York:
Macmillan, 1980), a key text for teachers of Jewish secular history.
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Dr. Oren B. Stier, who served as a faculty member for the
February 2011 Posen Seminar in Miami, isDirector of the Judaic Studies Program
and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International
University. He leads courses in Jewish mysticism (kabbalah), modern Jewish
thinkers, and Jewish civilization. Professor Stier brought his scholarship in
Jewish cultural studies to the Miami seminar, where he led a session on the
stories and histories of Miami’s Latin Jewish immigrants. He is the author of Committed
to Memory: Cultural Meditations of the Holocaust (Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2003).
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