Menachem Keren-Kratz is an independent scholar. In 2009 he completed a PhD in Yiddish literature (summa cum laude, Bar-Ilan University, Israel), and in 2013 he received an additional PhD in Jewish history (Tel-Aviv University, Israel). His recent book is The Zealot: The Satmar Rebbe – Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2020, in Hebrew). Over sixty of his articles were accepted for publication in academic and semi-academic publications. These included several peer-reviewed article collections as well as many academic journals such as: Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, Modern Judaism, Contemporary Jewry, Israel Studies Review, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Jewish Political Studies Review, Association of Jewish Studies Review, and Tradition (in English), and Identities, Cathedra, Kesher, Da’at, Moreshet Israel, Dor Le-Dor and Yalkut Moreshet (in Hebrew) He also lectured in many local and international conferences.