Jeff Love is a Research Scholar at Northwestern University’s Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought. He is the author of The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève (Columbia University Press, 2018), Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008), and The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Brill, 2004). Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (Harvard, 2011) and co-editor of several volumes including Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (Indiana, 2015) and Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany (Rutgers, 2020).