Authors
Serving as a forum for their collective knowledge, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe includes articles written by more than 450 internationally recognized scholars. This encyclopedia brings their research together for the first time. Authors are listed in alphabetical order by last name. The directory also includes the authors’ credentials and enumerates the articles they have contributed to the encyclopedia. Click on the alphabetical list below to find an author.
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Bacon, Gershon
Associate Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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Baj, Barbara
Wrocław, Poland
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Baker, Zachary M.
Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections, Stanford University Libraries
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Bar-Asher, Shalom
Senior Lecturer, Lifshitz Academic College, Jerusalem
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Bar-El, Adina
Head, Department of Literature, and Founder and Director of MASAD (Center for Literature, Children’s Literature, and Didactics), Achva Academic College of Education, Israel
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Bar-Itzhak, Haya
Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and Head of Folklore Studies, University of Haifa
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Bar-Levav, Avriel
Head, and Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel
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Bartal, Israel
Avraham Harman Chair and Professor of History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Bar-Yosef, Hamutal
Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba
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Bass, David
Rabbi and Attorney; Instructor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; Dayan, Conversion Court of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem and Conversion Court of the Israel Defense Forces
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Bassok, Ido
Doctoral candidate in Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Bauer, Ela
Academic Coordinator, Posen Research Forum for Jewish European and Israeli Political Thought, University of Haifa
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Baumgarten, Jean
Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
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Beider, Alexander
Independent Scholar, Chaville, France
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Beizer, Michael
Lecturer and Senior Researcher, Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Bemporad, Elissa
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Hunter College, City University of New York
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Ben-Amos, Dan
Professor of Folklore and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
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Bender, Sara
Professor of Jewish History, University of Haifa
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Ben-Sasson, Havi
Mandel Fellow, Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Historian, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
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Berkowitz, Joel
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Jewish Studies, University at Albany, New York
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Bilovitsky, Vladimir
Doctoral candidate in History, Tel Aviv University
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Blatman, Daniel
Senior Lecturer, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Blecking, Diethelm
Privatdozent, Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany; Professor, Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Eugeniusza Piaseckiego w Poznaniu, Poland
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Bolton, Jonathan
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
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Bowlt, John E.
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California
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Boyarin, Jonathan
Robert M. Beren Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, University of Kansas
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Brent, Jonathan
Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Editorial Director, Yale University Press
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Brod, Petr
Editor of the Czech Service, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Brown, Benjamin
Lecturer, the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Broyde, Michael J.
Professor of Law, School of Law; and Senior Fellow and Projects Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, Atlanta
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Bułat, Mirosława M.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theater, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie (Kraków)
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