The AuthorsofthisVolume AgnieszkaJagodzińska is Assistant Professor in the Department of JewishStudies at the University of Wrocław,Poland. Her academic interests include Jewish acculturationand integration, Christi- an-Jewish relations, conversionofJews to Christianity,Jewishuniversalism, Jewishiconography and print. She specializesinthe history of the British Protestant missions to Jews in the nine- teenth and early twentieth century. She is the author of numerous articles and monographs on these subjects and editor of several sourcecollections (in Polish and English). Her pioneering monograph on the missions and literature of The London Society forPromoting Christianity amongst the Jews in Poland wasrecently published in Polishas“Duszozbawcy”?. Misje iliteratura Londyńskigo Towarzystwa Krzewienia Chrześcijaństwa wśród Żydów wlatach 1809–1939 (Wydaw- nictwo Austeria, 2017). DavidB.Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish Historyand founding di- rectorofthe Katz Center forAdvanced Judaic Studies (1994–2014) at the UniversityofPennsylva- nia. His research interests include the intellectualand culturalhistory of Jews in the early modern and modern periods, the history of interactions between Judaism and science, and the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Hismost recent booksare Early Modern Jewry: ANew Cultural History (Princeton, New Jersey:PrincetonUniversity Press, 2010) and ABest-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era (Seattle and London: University of WashingtonPress, 2014). Ellie R. Schainker is Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, Georgia. Schainker’sresearch interests include East European Jewish history,imperialRussianhistory,conversionstudies, the historyofreligious toleration and em- pire, and indigenous movements forreligious reform in imperialRussia and the early Soviet Union. She hasrecently published her first book entitled: Confessions of the Shtetl: Convertsfrom JudaisminImperial Russia, 1817–1906 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2017). The book explores JewishconversionstoChristianity in nineteenth-century imperial Russia in light of the multi-confessionalpoliticsofthe Russianempireand its impact on imperial sociability and re- ligious toleration. Christian Wiese holds the Martin Buber ChairinJewish Religious Philosophy at the Goethe Univer- sity, Frankfurt am Main, and is the academic director of the Frankfurt research unit devoted to “Re- ligious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish,Christian and Islamic Contexts.” His research focuses on modern Jewishintellectual and cultural history, the historyofJewish-Christian relations, and on Jewish philosophy.His publications include Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jew- ish Studies and Protestant TheologyinWilhelmine Germany (Leiden: Brill, 2005); The Life and ThoughtofHans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions (Lebanon, NH: BrandeisUniversity Press,2007). .