Stefan Vogt is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter and research coordinator at the Martin Buber Chair for Jewish Thought and Philosophy, as well as a Privatdozent for Modern History at the History Department, both at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He is also the editor of the volume Colonialism and the Jews in German History. Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University. His books include Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader; Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective, The Origins of the State of Israel: A Documentary History (with Eran Kaplan), and Jews and the Military: A History. Penslar is President of the American Academy for Jewish Research, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an honorary fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford. Arieh Saposnik is associate professor at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. He is the author of Becoming Hebrew: The Creation of a Jewish National Culture in Ottoman Palestine and Zionism's Redemptions: Images of the Past and Visions of the Future in Jewish Nationalism.