Contributors
Dalit Atrakchi is a PhD student in the Department of Middle Eastern
Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Her dissertation deals with the status of
women in Moroccan politics between 1956 and 2000. In 2010 she con-
ducted extensive fieldwork and archival research in Morocco.
Y. Michal Bodemann (PhD, Brandeis University) is professor of sociology
and affiliated with the Joint Initiative of German and European Studies
at the University of Toronto. At present, his areas of interest and teach-
ing include race and ethnic relations, classical sociological theory, quali-
tative methods, Jewish studies, and especially German-Jewish relations
and memory. He has published numerous articles and books on Jews
in Germany. His book Gedächnistheater: Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre
deutsche Erfindung (Theater of memory: The Jewish community and its
German invention) was listed as one of the ten best nonfiction books
in Germany in June 1996. His most recent monograph is A Jewish Fam-
ily in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait (2004). He is the co-editor of
Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos and Citizenship and Immigrant Incorporation:
Comparative Perspectives on Western Europe and North America (with Gökçe
Yurdakul, 2006 and 2007). His most recent edited book is New German
Jewry and the European Context (2008).
Hanita Brand (PhD, Columbia University) of blessed memory, who
passed away in April 2011, wrote her dissertation on the semiotics of
drama and theater: Western and Middle Eastern plays side by side. She
researched both Arabic and Hebrew culture and literature from a theo-
retical perspective. Until 1999, she taught modern Hebrew literature, cul-
ture, and language as well as Middle Eastern literature at the University