Naomi Seidman
Jewish studies, Graduate Theological Union & University of California at Berkeley

Yiddish, modern Hebrew literature and the Midrashic imagination, feminist and literary theory and their applicability in literary analysis. Naomi Seidman is Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union. Her first book, A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish, appeared in 1997. Her second, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation, was published in 2006.