326 r Contributors
Libby Garshowitz, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Near and Mid-
dle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto; past director of Jewish Studies;
member of various committees at the University of Toronto, in the general com-
munity and in professional organizations. She still teaches and directs graduate
students in medieval Hebrew poetry. Her research interests, professional presen-
tations, and publications include textbooks for the teaching of Hebrew at uni-
versity level, articles on the Jews of Spain, Jewish-Christian relations; Christian
scriptures; legal status of conversa women after the 1492 Expulsion; medieval
Hebrew poetry; contemporary Israeli literature; biblical and medieval exegesis,
and book reviews.
Bat-Sheva Garsiel, PhD, teaches in the Department of Middle East History at
Bar Ilan University. She has taught at other colleges and universities in Israel, the
United States, and the United Kingdom. Among her publications is Bible, Mi-
drash, and Quran: An Intertextual Study of Common Narrative Materials (Hakib-
butz Hameuchad, 2006) [Hebrew].
Professor Juliette Hassine of blessed memory, who passed away in August 2010,
was an internationally known scholar on the writings of Proust. She published
five books and sixty articles as well as contributed forty-one entries, thirty of
which are extended articles, to the Dictionnaire Marcel Proust (Champion, 2004,
Académie française Prize 2005). All these publications are based principally on
research of Proust’s drafts and manuscripts according to the Critique génétique.
Her list of publications also includes books she edited, many studies in fields such
as comparative literature and Hebrew literature, among the latter a book on Da-
liah Rabikovitch’s poetry. During the last ten years, Hassine conducted research
on Moroccan manuscripts of historical and literary value in Hebrew and Judeo-
Arabic from the first half of the nineteenth century.
Michael Katz, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Departments of Psychology and
Education at the University of Haifa. He is head of the Program of Education
and Human Development. Katz holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, psy-
chology, and political science from Bar-Ilan University, master’s degree in social
psychology from Bar-Ilan University, and master’s and doctoral degrees in math-
ematics from Oxford University. He has held research and teaching positions at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, the London School of
Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston (Ontario), and San Francisco State,
and was a visiting scholar at Oxford and Stanford.
Ronald C. Kiener, PhD, is professor of religion and director of the Jewish Stud-
ies Program at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. After an undergraduate degree