Michael R. Katz is C. V. Starr Professor of Russian Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author of The Literary Ballad in Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction. Katz is also the translator of many novels, including Nikolai Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done? and Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin, both from Cornell. Vladimir Jabotinsky was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion[2] of the British army in World War I. Later he established several Jewish organizations in what was then called Palestine, including Beitar, HaTzohar and the Irgun. Michael Stanislawski is Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University and the author of several books, including Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky.