Todd Samuel Presner is an associate professor of Germanic languages and Jewish studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the author of "Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration," His recent articles have appeared in "PMLA," "Modernism/Modernity," "German Politics and Society," "Telos," and "Criticism," and he has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.