Daniel Schifrin for­mer Direc­tor of Lit­er­ary Pro­grams for the Nation­al Foun­da­tion for Jew­ish Cul­ture, is a vis­it­ing schol­ar at Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty. He writes a col­umn on arts & cul­ture for New York Jew­ish Week, and his essays and reviews appear in the San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle, the Los Ange­les Times, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He is the edi­tor of Across the Great Divide: The Select­ed Essays of Abra­ham Coral­nik, and has just com­plet­ed his first novel.