The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud
Book Talk with Author Gila Fine ZOOMING in from Israel
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/ozbookFeb23
How does the Talmud portray its heroines? Why are they never as they first seem? And what does this tell us about the rabbis’ views of marriage, sex, childbirth, and what it means to be a woman in the world? Gila Fine discusses her new book on the six named heroines of the Talmud: Yalta, Homa, Marta, Heruta, Bruria and Ima Shalom.
Gila Fine is a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, exploring the tales of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop-culture. She is the recipient of the Maimonides Award forExcellence in Jewish Education, and serves on the faculties of the Nachshon Project, Amudim Seminary, the Tikvah Scholars Program, and the London School of Jewish Studies, in addition to teaching thousands of students at conferences, campuses, and communities across the Jewish world. Haaretz has called her “a young woman on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation.”
Gila’s new book, The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud, won the 2024 Rabbi Sacks Book Prize.