Simon Rabinovitch is the Stotsky Associate Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, where he teaches and writes on a range of topics in European, Jewish, Russian, and legal history. His books include Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia and the edited collections Jews and Diaspora Nationalism: Writings on Jewish Peoplehood in Europe and the United States and Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law. His newest book, Religious Freedom and Jewish Collective Rights, A Global History will be published by Yale University Press in 2024. Rabinovitch also writes for the English edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.