Yosef Kaplan, PhD (1978), The Hebrew University, is Bernard Cherrick Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at that university. He has published many studies on the history of early modern Jews, the Marranos and the Sephardi Diaspora. He is the editor of The Dutch Intersection. The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History (Brill 2008). Dan Michman, PhD (1978), The Hebrew University, is Emeritus Professor of Modern Jewish History at Bar -Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research , Yad Vashem. He is the author of The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos During the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press 2011).