Samantha Baskind is Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (2014). She is also the author of Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art (2004), Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (2007), and Jewish Art: A Modern History (2011, co-authored with Larry Silver). The Jewish Graphic Novel: Critical Approaches, co-edited with Ranen Omer-Sherman, appeared in 2008. She served as editor for U.S. art for the 22-volume revised edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (2006) and is also the editor of Pennsylvania State University Press's book series: "Jews and the Cultural Imagination."