Books by Richard I. Cohen

Richard I. Cohen holds the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies and has served as the Academic Head of Revivim, the honours programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the training of Jewish studies teachers. He is the author of The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust and Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, and among the books he has edited are The French Revolution and its Historical Impact and Art and History. He has co-curated and co-edited (with Vivian Mann) From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 and (with Laurence Sigal) Le Juif errant: Un temoin du temps. Jonathan Frankel was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917 marked a turning point in modern Jewish historiography and was awarded a number of prestigious prizes. He is the author of 'The Damascus Affair: `Ritual Murder', Politics, and the Jews in 1840', and the editor of many books, including several volumes of 'Studies in Contemporary Jewry'. He has also published numerous works on modern Jewish politics, with an emphasis on the emergence of Jewish nationalism, the history of the Jews in tsarist and Soviet Russia, and Jewish historiography. An edition of his essays will be published shortly. Stefani Hoffman is the former director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently involved in freelance research, editing, and translation on topics related to Russian Jewish history and society. She is co-editor, with Ezra Mendelsohn, of 'The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews' and, with Yitzhak Brudny and Jonathan Frankel, of 'Restructuring Post-Communist Russia'.