The Studies in Contemporary Jewry series is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Eli Lederhendler, Peter Y. Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, who teach Jewish history, society, and politics at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Eli Lederhendler, the editor of Volume XXI, is the Stephen S. Wise Professor of American Jewish History and Institutions at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University. He is the author of New York Jews and the Decline of the Urban Ethnicity, 1950-1970, among other titles.