Sharon FlattoSharon Flatto is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, specializing in early modern Jewish history, early modern and modern Jewish thought, and kbbalah. Her research interests include mysticism in early modern Prague; early Hasidism; and the modernization of east and central European rabbinic culture. Professor Flatto received her Ph.D. in Jewish history from Yale University, after which she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University. She has taught at Yale University, Queens College, Brown University, and Brooklyn College. The recipient of many awards and grants, she has contributed to learned journals and written articles for the 'YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.' Read More Read Less