Jonatan Meir is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research interests include the History of the Jews in Eastern Europe, Jewish Polemics, Jewish Mysticism, The Haskalah Movement, Hasidism, and Contemporary Kabbalah.

Rachel Manekin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her current research interests include the legal treatment of the Jews in Galicia between the years 1772-1867 and its effect on their religious, social, and political development.