Emily Miller Budick holds the Ann and Joseph Adelman Chair in American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is author of Fiction and Historical Consciousness: The American Romance Tradition and editor of Modern Hebrew Fiction by Gershon Shaked (IUP, 2000) and Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature.Ladislaus L�b is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex.Daniel Steuer is Senior Lecturer in German in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex.Laura Marcus is Reader in English in the School of Humanities, University of Sussex.