Essential Readings on
Jewish Identities, Lifestyles & Beliefs


About the Authors

Mark E. Blum, Ph.D., is Professor of History at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.

Warren J. Blumenfeld, Ph.D., is Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University, Department of Educational Studies, Hamilton, New York, and former editor of The International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.

Karina Bodo, Ph.D., is Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at Concordia University College of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

Dennis W. Carlton, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Jean Endicott, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York.

Abby L. Ferber, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Women’s Studies, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Development at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Martin Fiebert, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California.

Joshua A. Fishman, Ph.D., Distinguished University Research Professor, Social Sciences, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, continues to teach at the University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine campus and is also a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and at New York University.

Steven Friedman, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at S.U.N.Y. Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.


Nancy Gibson, Ph.D., is the Department Chair of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Nathan Glazer, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, founding coeditor of The Public Interest, and coauthor of The Lonely Crowd.

Marci Gluck, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow in the NY Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.

Allan Geliebter, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist in the NY Obesity Research Center, Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Professor of Psychology at Touro College, New York, New York.

Irving Louis Horowitz, Ph.D., is the Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and recipient of the National Jewish Book Award in Biography for his memoir of a Harlem childhood, Daydreams and Nightmares.

Arnold A. Lasker, D.H.L, was rabbi of Congregation Beth Torah in Orange, New Jersey, prior to retiring in 1977. He passed away in 1996.

Judith N. Lasker, Ph.D., is NEH Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Seymour Martin Lipset, Ph.D., is Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, California, past president of the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association, and recipient of the MacIver Prize for Political Man.

Stanford M. Lyman, Ph.D., was Robert R. Morrow Eminent Scholar in Social Science and member of the Holocaust and Judaic Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, and recipient of the Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions to the study of social psychology, given by the Society for Symbolic Interaction. He passed away Sunday, March 9, 2003.

Yvonne D. Newsome, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
Lisa D. Robinson, MBA, EdD. is an adjunct faculty of Business at Webster University and Women’s Studies at the College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.

Donna Shai, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Ira M. Sheskin, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of The Jewish Demography Project of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

Rita J. Simon, Ph.D., is a University Professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Law School at American University in Washington D.C.

Ben Z. Sorotzkin, Psy. D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Brooklyn, New York.

David G. Stern, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and co-editor, with, Bela Szabados, of a collection of essays entitled Wittgenstein Reads Weininger: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Elizabeth Sublette, M.D., is Attending Psychiatrist at Long Island Jewish Hospital, Queens, New York.

Laurence Thomas, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, New York, where he is also a member of the Judaic Studies Program.

Phyllis Brooks Toback, Ph.D., is a Supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education and a staff chaplain at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

Brian Trappler, M.D., is Director of Outpatient Services at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, Brooklyn, NY, and Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry, S.U.N.Y., Brooklyn, NY.

Avi Weiss, Ph.D., is the Chief Economist and Deputy General Director of the Israel Antitrust Authority, and Associate Professor of Economics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.