Contributors · 331Jews” in Bukharan Jews in the Twentieth Century, ed. Ingeborg Baldauf,
Moshe Gammer, and Thomas Loy (2008).
Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman (PhD, UCLA) is chair of the Department of His-
tory, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. She
is also editor of Hamizrah Hehadash, journal of the Middle East and Islamic
Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI). Eraqi Klorman serves on the MEI-
SAI board and on several academic committees. Her fields of research
include history and culture of the Jews in the Muslim world, especially
in Yemen; Mizrahi Jews in Palestine and in Israel; messianism-ideology
and movements; Jewish-Muslim relations; religious conversion; women
and gender; immigration; and historiography. Among her books are The
Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century: A Portrait of a Messianic Commu-
nity (1993) and The Jews of Yemen: History, Society, Culture, vol. 2 (2004)
and vol. 3 (2008). Recent articles include “Muslim Society as an Alterna-
tive: Jews Converting to Islam,” Jewish Social Studies 14 (2007); “Women
Resisting Men: Inheritance and Disinheritance in the Yemenite Jewish
Community in Mandatory Palestine,” Nashim 11 (2006); “Enlightenment,
Judaism, Islam, and the Kabbala Dispute in Yemen: Social and Cultural
Considerations,” in Religious Radicalism, ed. Meir Litvak and Ora Limor
(2007, in Hebrew); “Yemeni Jewish Historiography and the Formation of
National Identity,” in To Invent a Nation, ed. Henry Wasserman and Yosi
Dahan (2006, in Hebrew); “Yemen, Aden, and Ethiopia: Jewish Emigra-
tion and Italian Colonialism,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3,
19 (October 2009).
Michael M. Laskier (PhD, UCLA) is an internationally recognized au-
thority on modern Jewish history, Jewish-Muslim relations, Israel and
the Arab world, Israel and the Mediterranean including Greece, Cyprus,
Italy, Spain, and France, and modern Middle Eastern/Maghrebi stud-
ies. He is a tenured full professor at the Department of Middle Eastern
Studies, Bar-Ilan University, and director and endowed chair of the
Menachem Begin Center for the Study of Resistance Movements. Pub-
lications include North African Jewry in the Twentieth Century: The Jews
of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria (1994, 2nd ed., 1997), winner of the U.S.
National Jewish Book Award; The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa
in Modern Times (2003), co-edited with Reeva S. Simon and Sara Reguer;