Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Menachem Lorberbaum is senior lecturer in the department of Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Noam J. Zohar is senior lecturer in the department of philosophy at Bar Ilan University. Ari Ackerman is lecturer in the school of education at the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem. All four editors are research fellows at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

"A vast and important resource which will be consulted for years to come by all interested in any aspect of Judaism and Jewish history." Ira Robinson, Journal of Religion & Culture (praise for the series) "The series to which this book belongs is unprecedented... Every one of the chapters enacts a debate that should have a living resonance, not just for Jews, although obviously for them, but for everyone with a historical sense and a political conscience." Hilary Putnam, Boston Review"