Avriel Bar-Levav is associate professor in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He is also head of the Center for the Study of the Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims and co-editor of Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. His fields of study include history of the Jewish book, Jewish attitudes toward death, ego documents, and Jewish ethical literature.
Uzi Rebhun is professor and head of the Division of Jewish Demography and Statistics at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds the Shlomo Argov Chair in Israel-diaspora relations. His fields of study include Jewish demography, Jewish sociology, and Israel-Diaspora relations.