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Modernity’s Other: Studies on Jewish Women

February 12-13, 2007
University of Chicago Divinity School
Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, Illinois, 60637

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Daniel Boyarin
(PhD, Columbia University)

Daniel Boyarin is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley. He has published books on a variety of topics related to ideas of sex and gender in late antiquity, including Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (1993), Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (1997), and the award-winning Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (2004).

Barbara Hahn
(PhD, Free University Berlin)

Barbara Hahn is currently Professor of German at Vanderbilt University. Her work centers on German thought with an interest in Judaism; she has published many essays on, among others, Ricarda Huch, Ernst Jünger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Charlotte von Stein, Margarete Susman, the Book of Job, Heiner Müller, and Franz Kafka. Recently her 2002 book was translated into English under the title The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity.

Paula Hyman
(PhD, Columbia University)

Professor Hyman is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University. Her work centers on topics in modern European and American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on the history of women and gender. She is the author of The Jewish Woman In America (1976); From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939 (1979); The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace (1991); Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (1995); and The Jews of Modern France (1998).

Shulamit Magnus
(PhD, Columbia University)

Shulamit Magnus is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at Oberlin College. She is currently completing an annotated translation of, critical commentary on, and introduction to the memoirs of Pauline Wengeroff (1833-1916) [Memoiren einer Grossmutter], a major piece of writing by a Jewish woman about the emergence of Jewish modernity and its cultural and familial travails in Tsarist Russia. She is also working on a book of essays about Wengeroff's memoirs and their
significance for the understanding of Jewish modernity, the role of gender in modern Jewish memory, and Jewish women's history.

Maeera Schreiber
(PhD, Brandeis University)

Maeera Screiber is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Utah. Her academic interests include modern poetry and poetic theory, Jewish-American studies, gender studies, and critical theory. Her first book, Singing in a Strange Land: Towards A Jewish American Poetics, will be published later this year.