Glenn Dynner is Professor of Jewish Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. He is author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, which received the Koret Publication Prize, and editor of Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe. He has been a Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and is currently the NEH Senior Scholar at the Center for Jewish History in New York.