A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814349670)

Jonathan Karp is associate professor of Judaic studies and history at Binghamton University of the State University of New York (SUNY). He is the author of The Politics of Jewish Commerce: Economic Thought and Emancipation in Europe, 1638-1848 and has edited or coedited five volumes, including The Cambridge History of Judaism, vol. 7, The Early Modern World, 1500-1815 with Adam Sutcliffe and Classic Essays on Jews in Early Modern Europe with Francesca Trivellato. His forthcoming monograph is Chosen Surrogates: How Blacks and Jews Changed American Popular Music. James Loeffler is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire. He is also the coeditor of The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century and of the Association for Jewish Studies Review.Howard Lupovitch is professor of history and director of the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University. He is the author of Transleithanian Paradise: A History of the Budapest Jewish Community, 1738-1938 and a coeditor, with François Guesnet and Antony Polonsky, of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 31, Poland and Hungary: Jewish Realities Compared. Nancy Sinkoff is professor of Jewish studies and history and the academic director of the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is the author of Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands and the National Jewish Book Award-winning From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Wayne State University Press). She is coeditor of Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin with Rebecca Cypess and of Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery with Halina Goldberg.