Jennifer Sartori is the Editor of the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. She received her BA in History with a concentration in Feminist and Gender Studies from Haverford College and her MA and PhD in History from Emory University. Her research has focused on the shaping of modern Jewish identities, from her graduate work on the education of Jewish girls in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France through her current study of adoption and Jewish identity in the United States today. She is also Co-Director, with Dr. Jayne Guberman, of the Adoption & Jewish Identity Project.