Judaism

Research Associate Jordan R. Katz discusses the dynamic role of the early modern European Jewish midwife.

Katz, an Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, focuses on Jewish cultural history, history of medicine, and women and gender in the seventeenth-and-eighteenth centuries.

WSRP 2017–18 Research Associate Avital Davidovich-Eshed, PhD (Bar Ilan University), Visiting Lecturer in Women's Studies and Judaism, delivers her talk, "Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture."

This past fall, Susanna Drake taught a seminar on one of the most contentious religious objects in the world today: the veil.

Yakir Englander, a research associate at the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program, discussed the invisible walls between genders and race and nation in post-Holocaust ultra-Orthodox theology.

On March 22, Rachel Adelman, WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies and Hebrew Literature, delivered the lecture 'Reading Rebekah Unveiled: A Study of the Female Ruse in Genesis,' as part of the 2011-12 WSRP Lecture Series.