Robin Judd completed her Ph.D. in European and Jewish history at the University of Michigan in 2000. Since then she has served as an assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University (OSU). Judd has published a number of articles concerning Jewish ritual behavior and debates in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany, including “The Politics of Beef: Animal Advocacy and the Kosher Butchering Debates in Germany” (Jewish Social Studies December 2003) and “Circumcision and the Modern German-Jewish Experience” in My Covenant in Your Flesh: Circumcision, Gender, and Culture across Jewish History (2003). She is currently completing her first monograph, titled Cutting Identities: Jewish Rituals and German Politics.