Dean Phillip Bell is President/CEO and Professor of Jewish History at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany, Jews in the Early Modern World, Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany: Memory, Power and Identity, and (with Michael S. Hogue) Interreligious Resilience: Interreligious Leadership for a Pluralistic World. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography, and co-editor (with Keren Eva Fraiman) of The Routledge Handbook of Judaism in the Twenty-First Century.