Courses by instructor: Naomi Seidman

Naomi Seidman – Naomi Seidman is Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish and Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation.
The New Yiddish Literature: How it Transformed Jewish Courtship, Marriage and Sex

T200-JCL Instructors: Seidman Starting: 10/14/2010 Location: BJE Jewish Community Library

How did modern Jewish literature modernize Jewish sexual practices, marital structures, and erotic experiences? Modernity brought with it a host of changes that included the transformations of gender roles and erotic practices, from arranged marriages ...