ࡱ> lnk1 01bjbj .jЅqhЅqh))> > 8TW3t:>"```;V2222222$472L%;;L%L%2``3***L%``2*L%2**:/,*0`@}P(j/ 2'30W3/.8(N8*0*08>0j'p*!22) W3L%L%L%L%8> X :  DVORA E. WEISBERG 91 3077 University Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90007-3796 (213) 765-2103 deweisberg@huc.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2001-present 91-Jewish Institute of Religion 2020 Director of the HUC-JIR Rabbinical School 2019 Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Professor of Rabbinics 2015 Professor of Rabbinics 2009 Director of the Rabbinical Program, Los Angeles Campus 2004-2015 Associate Professor of Rabbinics 2001-2004 Assistant Professor of Rabbinics 1996-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh 1993-1996 College of William and Mary 1994-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor, Religion and Classical Studies 1993-1994 Instructor, Religion and Classical Studies 1985-1989 Instructor, Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary of America EDUCATION 1994 Ph.D., Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary of America Dissertation: "Tradition and Transformation: The Appropriation of Festival Law in Bavli Betsa." 1983 M.A., Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1981 B.A., Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University Summa cum laude and highest honors; Phi Beta Kappa. Senior Thesis: "Can the Demands of Jewish Feminists be Met Within the Halakhic System?" HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS Visiting Fellow, Summer Collaboratory, Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, July 2015. Finalist, National Jewish Book Awards, Womens Studies for Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism, 2009. Kohns Foundation Fellowship, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1989-1990 Dr. Saul and Judith Lieberman Fellowship, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1986-1988 Professor Louis Ginzberg Talmud Prize, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1987 Charles Revson Fellowship, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1983-86 Samuel and Jennie Raucher Prize, Brandeis University, 1980 & 1981 Henrietta and David Chassler Prize in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, 1979 Sidney Farber Award for Excellence, Brandeis University, 1977 BOOKS Massekhet Menahot: A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud V/2, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020. Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism, University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press, 2009. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Mishnah Menahot: Introduction, Translation, and Annotations in The Oxford Annotated Mishnah, eds. Shaye J.D. Cohen and Hayim Lapin, Oxford University Press (2022). Rehacer o deshacer? El levirato en la Biblia Hebrea y la literature rabinica in Literatura Rabinica (La Biblia y Las Mujeres 8), Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles-Macia, and Ronit Nikolsky, eds., Verbo Divino, 2021, 71-85. Ernuern oder Losen? Das Levirat in der Hebraischen Bibel und der rabbinischen Literatur in Rabbinische Lituratur (Die Bibel und die Frauen IV:1), Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles-Macia, and Ronit Nikolsky, eds., Kohlhammer, 2020, 72-88. Cold Comfort: A Feminist Reading of Moses in the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Akiba, in CCAR Journal, Spring 2019. Wealth: Essential Teachings of Our Tradition in The Sacred Exchange, Mary Zamore, ed., CCAR Press, 2019. Why Reform Jews Should Study Talmud, in A Life of Meaning: Embracing Reform Judaisms Sacred Path, Dana Evan Kaplan, ed., CCAR Press, 2017. Hallah and Illegitimacy in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, De Gruyter, 2016. Levirate, and Musaf in Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Routledge, 2015. Clothes (un)Make the Man: bMenahot 109b in Introduction to Seder Qodashim: A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian Talmud V, Tal Ilan, Monika Brockhaus and Tanja Hidde, eds. Mohr Siebeck 2012. Daughter, Daughters Judaism in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, volume 6, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2012 With Jonathan D. Sarna, A Writ of Release from Levirate Marriage (Shtar Halitzah) in 1807 Charleston AJAJ 63:1 (2011), 38-55. Aggadah, Amoraim, and Rabbinic Hermeneutics in Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, Judith Baskin, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011. Women and Torah Study in Aggadah in Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, Frederick Greenspan, ed., NYU Press, 2009, 41-63. Post-Biblical Commentary on Lech Lcha, Vayeitzei, Vaychi, Vayikra, Matot, Masei, and Ki Teitzei. In WRJ Womens Commentary on the Torah, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss, ed. URJ Press, 2007. Women and Aggadah in Aggadah, Encyclopedia Judaica I:459 (2006) Desirable but Dangerous: Rabbis Daughters in the Bavli. 91 Annual, 75 (2004), 121-161. The Widow of our Discontent: Levirate Marriage in the Bible and Ancient Israel. The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 28:4 (2004), 403-429. Insiders or Outsiders: Women and Rabbinic Literature. Judaism, Volume 52, Issue 207/208 (Fall 2003), 203-215. The Babylonian Talmud's Treatment of Levirate Marriage. The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Vol. 3 (Fall 2000), 35-66. "Men Imagining Women Imagining God: Gender Issues in Classical Midrash." In Agendas for the Study of Midrash in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Marc Lee Raphael, The Department of Religion of the College of William and Mary (1999), 63-83. Levirate Marriage and Halitzah in the Mishnah. The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Vol. 1 (Fall 1998), 37-69. Jam Every Other Day: Reflections on Twenty Years as a Conservative Jewish Feminist, Shofar, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Summer 1998), 51-61. The Study of Torah as a Spiritual Act. In Four Centuries of Jewish Womens Spirituality, ed. Dianne Ashton and Ellen Umansky. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. On Wearing Tallit and Tefillin. In Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue, ed. Susan Grossman and Rivka Haut. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1992. FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS Lamentations Rabbah in Targums and Early Rabbinic Literature, Alan Avery-Peck and Bruce Chilton, eds., Zondervan Press. The Climate and the Calendar: A Talmudic Perspective in The Sacred Earth: Jewish Perspectives on Our Planet, CCAR Press. BOOK REVIEWS Review of Jane L. Kanarek and Marjorie Lehman, eds., Learning to Read Talmud: What it Looks Like and How it Happens, Journal of Jewish Education, 85:4 (Winter 2019). Review of Joan S. Friedman, Guidance Not Governance: Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof and Reform Responsa. CCAR Journal, Winter 2018. Review of Richard Kalmin, Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context. H-Net Reviews (October 2015)  HYPERLINK "https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=43528" https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=43528 Review of Isaac Sassoon, Status of Women in Jewish Tradition. JSJ 45 (2014). Review of Tamara Or, Massekhet Betsah: Text, Translation and Commentary. JSJ 43 (2012). Review of Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Narrating the Law: A Poetics of Talmudic Legal Stories. H-Net Reviews (November 2011) HYPERLINK https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=33443 https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=33443. Review of Stuart S. Miller, Sages and Commoners in Late Antique Erez Israel. JSJ 41 (2010). Review of Etan Levine, Marital Relations in Ancient Judaism. Shofar 28:4 (Summer 2010). Review of Tal Ilan, Massekhet Taanit: Text, Translation and Commentary. JSJ 40 (2009). Review of Shamma Friedman, Tosefta Atiqta: Pesah Rishon. AJS Review Volume 30, Number 2 (November 2006). Review of Michael Satlow, Jewish Marriage in Antiquity. Judaism 209/210 (Winter/Spring 2004). Review of Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law, Ruth N. Sandberg. Review of Biblical Literature (on-line July 28, 2003)  HYPERLINK "http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=2885" http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=2885 Review of Gender Issues in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa, Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer, eds., Shofar Volume 21, Number 2, (Winter 2003). Review of Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism, Rodney Alan Werline. Hebrew Studies, Volume 40, 1999. Review of Chattel or Person? The Status of Women in the Mishnah, Judith Romney Wegner. Lilith, Volume 16, number 1, Winter 1991. Review of American Reform Responsa, Walter Jacob. Religious Studies Review, Volume 5, number 2, April 1989. ACADEMIC PAPERS Remaking or Unmaking? Levirate in the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic Literature, The Reception of Biblical Women and Gender in Rabbinic Literature, Berlin, December 2017 Jewish Marriage Practices in Sasanian Babylonia, Marriage, Family, Religion, and Culture in the Multiethnic Empires of Ancient Iran, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2016 Paternity, Family and a Missing Mother: A Reading of Bavli Yevamot 37b-38a. Institute for Jewish Studies, Berlin Free University, July 2008. Teaching Talmud to Future Jewish Professionals: Connecting Goals and Teaching Practices, Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy, Brandeis University, January 2008. Whose Child? The Status of the Offspring of Levirate Marriage in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature, SBL International Meeting, Vienna, July 2007. The Unbearable Otherness of Being Women: Women and Torah in Aggadah, Gimelstob Symposium in Judaic Studies: New Scholarship on Women and Judaism, Florida Atlantic University, February 2006. The Woman in the Middle: Family and Loss in Baba Metzia 59b and 84a, Association for Jewish Studies, December 2004. Avot Siman LaBanim: Biblical Figures as Rabbinic Jews, Association for Jewish Studies, December 2001. Biblical Men and Women in Bavli Berakhot, Association for Jewish Studies, December 2000. "Images of Women in Bavli Berakhot," Association for Jewish Studies, December 1999. Men Imagining Women Imagining God, Agendas for the Study of Midrash in the 21st Century, The College of William and Mary, May 1998. Law, Liturgy and the Ethics of Sexuality: A Discussion of Rachel Adlers Engendering Judaism, Association for Jewish Studies, December 1997. Levirate Marriage in the Babylonian Talmud, Association for Jewish Studies, December 1997. The Mishnahs Treatment of Levirate Marriage, Association for Jewish Studies, December 1996. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS and SERVICE: Association for Jewish Studies; Society of Biblical Literature. 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