Jeffrey Shandler is an associate professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust and Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture (forthcoming), the editor of Awakening Lives: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland before the Holocaust (2002), and co-author/co-editor of Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (2003).