| David Biale is Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies of the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History (Harvard University Press, 1979), Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History (Schocken Books, 1986) and Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America (Basic Books, 1992, University of California Press, 1997). He is the editor of Cultures of the Jews: A New History (Schocken Books, 2002), and together with Susannah Heschel and Michael Galchinsky, he also edited Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (University of California Press, 1998). His present projects include a study of the symbolism of blood in the Jewish and Christian traditions (for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship) and a collection of his essays entitled Against the Grain: Jewish Tradition and the Heretical Imperative. |