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Shofar publishes original, scholarly work and reviews a wide range of recent books in Judaica. Founded in 1981, Shofar is a peer-reviewed journal that is published quarterly by Purdue University Press on behalf of the University’s Jewish Studies Program.
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Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2009Editorial Board
Editors
Zev Garber
Daniel Morris
Associate Editor
Dean Bell
Managing Editor
Nancy Lein
Book Editor
Joseph Haberer
Editorial Board
Rachel Adler (Hebrew Union College-Los
Angeles and University of Southern
California)
Alan Astro (Trinity University)
Lawrence Baron (San Diego State
University)
Ofer Ben-Amots (Colorado College)
Shmuel Bolozky (University of
Massachusetts)
Steven B. Bowman (University of
Cincinnati)
S. Daniel Breslauer (University of Kansas)
Jean Cahan (University of Nebraska)
Leonard Dinnerstein (University of
Arizona)
Samuel Edelman (California State University
at Chico)
Judith Laikin Elkin (University of Michigan)
Richard Freund (University of Hartford)
Esther Fuchs (University of Arizona)
Joel Gereboff (Arizona State University)
Miryam Glazer (University of Judaism)
Daniel S. Goffman (Ball State University)
Penny S. Gold (Knox College)
Sandor Goodhart (Purdue University)
Peter Haas (Case Western Reserve
University)
Harold Kasimow (Grinnell College)
Elizabeth Klein (University of Illinois)
Jacques Kornberg (University of Toronto)
Benny Kraut (Queens College)
Saul Lerner (Purdue University Calumet)
Richard S. Levy (University of Illinois at
Chicago)
Gregory Mahler (Kalamazoo College)
Rafael Medoff (SUNY at Purchase)
Robert Melson (Purdue University)
Jody Myers (California State
University-Northridge)
Donald L. Niewyk (Southern Methodist
University)
John Pawlikowski (Catholic Theological
Union)
Gary G. Porton (University of Illinois)
Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University)
Daniel J. J. Ross (University of Nebraska
Press)
Michael Shapiro (University of Illinois)
Byron Sherwin (Spertus Institute of Jewish
Studies)
Naomi Sokoloff (University of Washington)
Alan Steinweis (University of Nebraska)
Seth Ward (University of Denver)
David Williams (University of Georgia)
Seth Wolitz (University of Texas-Austin)
Gordon D. Young (Purdue University)
Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman (San Francisco State
University)