[Front Matter]
written by David Novak, 1941-, Hillel Fradkin, fl. 2002, David G. Dalin, 1949-, Sylvia Barack Fishman, 1942-, Sherry Israel, fl. 2002, Jack Wertheimer, 1948-, Harvey Sicherman, 1945-, Marshall J. Breger, 1946-, Marc D. Stern, fl. 1999, Martin J. Plax, fl. 2002, Ralph Lerner, 1928-, Jonathan D. Sarna, fl. 2008, Naomi W. Cohen, 1927- and Alan Mittleman, 1953-; edited by Jonathan D. Sarna, fl. 2008, Robert A. Licht, fl. 2002 and Alan Mittleman, 1953-; in Jews and the American Public Square (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002, originally published 2002), 1-11