Rafael Chaiken is the direc­tor of CCAR Press, a depart­ment of the Cen­tral Con­fer­ence of Amer­i­can Rab­bis and the pri­ma­ry pub­lish­er for the Reform Move­ment. He was pre­vi­ous­ly the edi­tor for Jew­ish stud­ies, film stud­ies, and phi­los­o­phy at the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York Press. Books he has pub­lished have been win­ners or final­ists for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards, Jor­dan Schnitzer Book Awards, Fore­word Indies Book of the Year, Inde­pen­dent Pub­lish­er Book Awards, and Cana­di­an Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Awards. His book reviews have appeared in the Jour­nal of Elec­tron­ic Pub­lish­ing and Pub­lish­ing Research Quar­ter­ly. He holds a BA from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty and an MA from the Uni­ver­si­ty at Albany, both in his­to­ry, and lives in New York City.