Richard I. Cohen is emeritus professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership During the Holocaust; Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe; and, with Mirjam Rajner, Samuel Hirszenberg 1865–1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil. He has also cocurated and coedited From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 and Le Juif Errant: Un témoin de temps.