Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience provides a variety of new perspectives on several central questions in Jewish intellectual, social, and religious history from the eighteenth century to the present.

Brian M. Smollett, Ph.D. (2014), Assistant Dean of List College at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he also teaches courses in Jewish thought. He is a graduate of Binghamton University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and the City University of New York, Graduate Center, where he earned his Ph.D. in Jewish history (2014). He formerly taught Jewish and European history at Queens College and at Hunter College (CUNY) where he was associate director of the program in Jewish studies. He has published a number of essays and reviews in the fields of Modern Jewish history and Jewish thought.
Christian Wiese, Ph.D. (1997), University of Frankfurt am Main, is the Martin Buber Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His publications include Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies and Protestant Theology in Wilhelmine Germany (Brill, 2005); The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (University of New England Press, 2007).