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Stefani Hoffman Editor

Stefani Hoffman is the former Director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and coeditor of Restructuring Post-Communist Russia. Ezra Mendelsohn is Professor Emeritus, Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Russian Studies at The Hebrew University. His most recent book is entitled Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art. He is coeditor of the journals Zion and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.