Jewish Studies Scholar To Speak At Muhlenberg
Prof. Naomi Seidman will give a lecture entitled “The Sexual Politics of the Hebrew Revival” on Tuesday, April 15 at 8 p.m. in the Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Thursday, April 3, 2008 01:59 PM
The event, funded by the Posen Foundation, is free and open to the public.
Seidman is the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, Calif. She has been a professor at GTU since 1995. She received her B.A. from Brooklyn College, her M.A. from University of California, Davis, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkley.
Prof. Seidman’s research addresses issues of modern and contemporary Jewish thought, translation studies, translating the Bible, Queer Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Hebrew Literature and the Midrashic Imagination, and Critical Theory.
Seidman has published widely on these topics. Her first book, "A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish," was published by University of California Press in 1997. Her second book, "Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation," came out with University of Chicago Press in 2006.
The Posen Foundation promotes the study of Secular Jewish and Culture.
