Pawel Maciejko is Associate Professor of History and Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Chair in Classical Jewish Religion, Thought, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816 (2011) and Sabbatian Heresy: Writings on Mysticism, Messianism, and the Origins of Jewish Modernity (2017).
Scott Ury is Senior Lecturer in Tel Aviv University's Department of Jewish History. He is author of Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (2012), and co-editor of Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe since 1750 (2012) and of Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (2014).

This collection explores the different ways that intellectuals, scholars and institutions have sought to make history Jewish by discussing the different methodological, research and narrative strategies involved in transforming past events into part of the larger canon of Jewish history.