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of Pennsylvania. Subsequently Dr. Brand taught modern Arabic culture
and literature at Bar-Ilan University. She has published articles in the
Journal of Arabic Literature, Edebiyat, Middle Eastern Literatures, and Nashim.
She coauthored Adwaa daniyah, a book for teachers of Arabic literature in
Israel (2002).
Julia Phillips Cohen (PhD, Stanford) is assistant professor in the Program
in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. Her current project focuses on the imperial loyalties and local iden-
tities of Ottoman Jews in urban centers of the eastern Mediterranean.
Her publications include “Conceptions rivales du patriotism ottoman:
les célébrations juives de 1892,” in Itinéraires Sépharades, ed. Esther Ben-
bassa (2010), “Sephardic Scholarly Worlds: Toward a Novel Geography
of Modern Jewish History,” Jewish Quarterly Review 100 (Summer 2010)
(with Sarah Abrevaya Stein), and several entries on late Ottoman Judeo-
Spanish print culture in The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, ed.
Norman A. Stillman (2010).
Alanna E. Cooper (PhD, Boston University) is a cultural anthropologist.
She has held a senior fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for the
Study of World Religions, a Posen Fellowship in the Study of Cultural
Judaism at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a research fel-
lowship at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute for Advanced
Judaic Studies. Her work has also been supported by grants from the
Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Cul-
ture, and the United States National Security Education Program. She has
conducted ethnographic research among Bukharan Jews in Uzbekistan,
New York, and Israel and has published on their contemporary situation
as well as on their history. Her forthcoming book, Bukharan Jews and the
Global Jewish Diaspora, will be published by Indiana University Press. Her
articles on this topic include “Reconsidering the Tale of Yosef Maman and
the Bukharan Jewish Diaspora,” AJS Review 30, no. 1 (2004); “Looking
Out for One’s Own Identity: Central Asian Jews in the Wake of Com-
munism,” in New Jewish Identities, ed. Zvi Gitelman, (2003); “Feasting,
Memorializing, Praying, and Remaining Jews in the Soviet Union: The
Case of the Bukharan Jews,” in Jewish Life after the USSR, ed. Zvi Gitelman
(2002); and “Rituals in Flux: Courtship and Marriage among Bukharan