Richard I. Cohen is Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.Natalie B. Dohrmann is Associate Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Adam Shear is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.Elchanan Reiner is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, Israel.