Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Susan Chevlowe is adjunct assistant professor in the Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She received her Ph.D. in art history in 2003 from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. A former curator at The Jewish Museum, New York, her exhibitions and publications include Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, 1900–1945 (1991; organized with Norman L. Kleeblatt); Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn (1998), and The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography (2005). Her most recent essay on contemporary Israeli photographer Adi Nes's "Biblical Stories" series appeared in the catalogue for his exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum in March 2007.
Amy Gottlieb's short stories and essays have been published in Forward, Lilith, Puerto del Sol, Other Voices, Country Living, Midstream, Conservative Judaism and elsewhere. She works as director of publications for the Rabbinical Assembly/Aviv Press and is 2007–2008 Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education.
Deborah Greniman is the Managing Editor of Nashim and is also Senior Editor of English-language scholarly publications at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her translation of Ada Rapoport-Albert's book on women in the Sabbatean movement is forthcoming from the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. She is active in the Israel Association of Feminist and Gender Studies, of which she is a former board member.
Tamar Kadari received her Ph.D. in Rabbinic Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She teaches Midrash at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and in the Talmud Department at Bar-Ilan University. She has published "Teshuvat Yonah Hanavi," an unknown midrash to the Book of Jonah, as well as several studies on Song of Songs rabbah. She wrote some 70 entries on biblical women as seen in rabbinic texts for the new Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (2006; reviewed in this issue).
Gail Levin is Professor of Art History, American Studies and Women's Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of many books, including Becoming Judy Chicago: [End Page 253] A Biography of the Artist (2007) and Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography (1995, 2nd expanded edition 2007). She is currently writing a biography of Lee Krasner.
Judith Margolis, an Israel-based American artist and book designer, is the Art Editor, and this issue's Consulting Editor, of Nashim. She has just completed Countdown to Perfection: Meditations on the Sefirot, an illustrated book that explores kabbalistic intentions for spiritual self-improvement and counting the Omer to be published by Bright Idea Books/Jerusalem. She is one of the "Celebrated Artists" chosen to participate in Commonground 2008, an international exhibit that will travel to China, Europe and North America. She is a participant in the international Women's Torah Midrash Project, and is featured in Creating Art, Promoting Change: Works by Jewish Women (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, 2007).
Michael Oppenheim is a professor in the Department of Religion at Concordia University in Montreal. His latest book, Jewish Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Narrating the Interhuman (2006), compares the work of Jewish philosophers of encounter (Rosenzweig, Buber and Levinas) with the insights of a relational stream of early post-Freudian psychoanalysts (Klein, Erikson, Fairbairn, Winnicott), and with those of the feminist philosopher-psychoanalyst Irigaray. He has published books and articles in the areas of modern Jewish philosophy, Judaism in the modern period, philosophy of religion and psychology of religion.
Gloria Feman Orenstein is Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Theatre of the Marvelous: Surrealism and the Contemporary Stage (New York University Press, 1975), The Reflowering of the Goddess (Pergamon Press, 1990), Multi-Cultural Celebrations: The Paintings of Betty La Duke 1970–1990 (Pomegranate Art Press, 1993), and co-editor of Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (Sierra Club Books, 1990). She was co-creator of The Woman's Salon in Literature during the 1970s in New York City, and is now founding an Archive on Pioneer Women Artists in California at...
