Read a Feb. 1, 2013, Smart Set column about a conference at the Center for Jewish History that celebrated the Man of Steel’s 75th birthday — and focused on his Jewish roots.

Lynn Davidman is a professor of modern Jewish studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She is an expert on those who leave Hasidic and Orthodox Judaism, both in the U.S. and in Israel.

Read an article in the February 2013 edition of Smithsonian magazine.

Read an April 7, 2013, column in the Huffington Post by S. Brent Plate, a visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.

Read this New Republic article published April 18, 2013, to mark the Man of Steel’s 75 years.

Read a Q-and-A in the April 28, 2013, edition of Our Sunday Visitor with Franciscan University of Steubenville philosophy professor Jonathan Sanford, co-editor of Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry.

Steven J. Zipperstein is a professor in Jewish culture and history at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. He is co-editor of a series of books titled Jewish Lives from Yale University Press. His research areas include modern Jewish history, and he teaches a course on Jews in the modern world.

Eugene Sheppard is an associate professor of modern Jewish history and thought at Brandeis University in Boston and associate director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry. He is an expert on the influence of European Jewish refugees on public life and academia in the U.S.

Susannah Heschel is a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. She teaches courses in contemporary Jewish life and history and is an expert on the Holocaust and on Jewish feminism.