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for Soviet Jewry. She is writing a book with Sam Lipski, entitled Let My
People Go! Australia and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry. In January 2008 she
received the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to higher Jewish
education and interfaith dialogue.
Carmela Saranga (PhD, Bar-Ilan University) is lecturer in the Hebrew
Literature Department at Ashkelon Academic College. She researched
the medieval Sefer Hayashar and has written textbooks on medieval and
modern Hebrew literature as well as papers that deal with medieval and
ancient layers in modern Hebrew literature. Her most recent literary
book is Salt in the Walls (2009, in Hebrew) about Jewish-Muslim relations
in the city of Acre.
Daniel J. Schroeter (PhD, University of Manchester) is the Amos S.
Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History and director of the Center
for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of
The Sultan’s Jew: Morocco and the Sephardi World (2002), an editor of the
Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World, executive ed. Norman A. Still-
man (2010), co-editor with Emily Benichou Gottreich of Jewish Culture and
Society in North Africa (2011), and he has published many other works on
Morocco and the Jews of the Islamic world. He is working with Joseph
Chetrit on a new book on Moroccan Jewries in the modern era, eigh-
teenth through twentieth centuries.
Rachel Sharaby (PhD, Bar-Ilan University) is senior lecturer in sociology
at Ashkelon Academic College and Bar-Ilan University. Her fields of re-
search are immigration, women from traditional communities, intercul-
tural encounters, and syncretism. She has written three books in Hebrew:
The Sephardic Community in Jerusalem at the End of the Ottoman Period, 1989
(2nd ed., 2001); Syncretism and Adjustment: The Encounter between a Tradi-
tional Community and a Socialist Society (2002); and The Mimuna Holiday:
From the Periphery to the Center (2009).
Rachel Simon (PhD, Hebrew University) specializes in modern Middle
Eastern and North African history with emphasis on Libya, Jewish com-
munities in the Arab world, women, education, youth, and Zionism. She
has written numerous article and books on these topics. Her publications