Contributors to this Issue
- Contributors to this Issue
Elisheva Baumgarten holds an appointment in the department of Jewish History and the Gender Studies Graduate Program at Bar Ilan University. She is a social historian who specializes in the history of the Jews in medieval Germany and northern France. Her work discusses medieval family life, life cycle rituals, midwifery and medicine, as well as children and their education. She is currently working on gender and piety in the Jewish communities of medieval Germany and northern France. baumgae@mail.biu.ac.il
Sherry Camhy’s work is in the permanent collections of The Israel Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Telfair Museum of Fine Art, Savannah GA, and The New York Public Library. It has been exhibited, among others, at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, The Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY, The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, and the Eleanor Ettinger and Sherry French Galleries in New York. Her work has been reviewed in ArtNewsMagazine, Drawing Magazine, and FineArtConnoisseur. When she is not teaching at The Art Students League, The School of Visual Arts and New York University, she can be found in her studio in West Chelsea, NY. She is the author of Art of The Pencil, and of several articles on silverpoint. More of her work can be seen at www.SherryCamhy.com .Sherrycamhy@aol.com
Sylvia Barack Fishman is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Chair of the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department at Brandeis University. She is also co-director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies. She is the author of numerous articles and of seven books: Matrilineal Ascent/Patrilineal Descent: The Gender Gap in American Jewish Life (with Daniel Parmer; HBI–Cohen Center, 2008); The Way Into the Varieties of Jewishness (Jewish Lights, 2007); Choosing Jewish: Conversations About Conversion (American Jewish Committee, 2006); Double Or Nothing? Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage (Brandeis University Press, 2004); Jewish Life and American Culture (SUNY Press, 2000); A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community (Free Press, 1993); and Follow My Footprints: Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction (UPNE, 1992). fishman@brandeis.edu [End Page 215]
Yehuda Gellman is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Ben-Gurion University. He publishes on philosophy of religion and on Jewish thought, including on feminist theology and Judaism. gellman@bgu.ac.il
Tova Hartman teaches gender studies and education at Bar Ilan University. She holds a doctorate in psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Working with Carol Gilligan, she wrote her thesis on “Mothering in Culture: Ambiguities and Continuities.” Her writings include numerous articles on gender, religion, and education, and two books: Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions (Harvard, 2002), and Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation (Brandeis University Press, 2007), which won the National Jewish Book Award. She is among the founders of Shira Hadasha, an Orthodox feminist synagogue in Jerusalem. tovahartman@gmail.com
Sharon Faye Koren is Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish Culture at Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. Her research interests include Jewish mysticism, women’s spirituality, and the interrelationship between medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Her articles have appeared in Nashim, the AJS Review, and Women and Water (edited by Rahel Wasserfall; UPNE, 1999). She is completing a book on the mystical rationales for excluding women from Kabbalah. skoren@huc.edu
Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern, author of Redemption in Chains: The Women Workers Movement in Eretz Israel 1920–1939 (Ben Zvi Institute–Schechter Institute, 2006), is a senior lecturer in gender studies and nineteenth and twentieth-century Jewish history at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Her articles on Yemenite women and women in the labor movement in pre-state Israel have appeared, among others, in Nashim (2006), Cathedra (2006), and the Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2002), and she is also the author of several articles in Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia (Shalvi Publishing, 2006). She is currently working on a political biography of Ada Fishman (Maimon). stern@schechter.ac.il
Guy Miron is Senior lecturer in Modern Jewish History...
