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Yaffa Weisman, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.
Library Director, the Frances-Henry Library, Los Angeles;
Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Studies
Dr. Weisman, Head Librarian of the Frances-Henry Library in Los Angeles and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, was born in Israel and is a veteran of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. She brings to HUC-JIR a rich history as a writer and a critic.
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative literature
- Jewish & Christian texts of the 1st century
- Contemporary Israeli culture
Education
- Ph.D., University of Southern California (1994)
- M.L.I.S, University of California, Los Angeles (1999)
- B.A., Tel Aviv University (1974)
Select Publications
- Translation of Yehudah Amichai's "The Day Martin Buber Was Buried", Shirim, 2001.
- Feminist/Women's Studies:
- Nissim Aloni's heroines: Defusing the grotesque through the theatrical in modern Israeli drama. Shofar,
Vol. 17 no. 2 (Winter, 1999)
- And we were all there: a feminist Haggadah. Co-edited with William Cutter. Los Angeles, American Jewish Congress
Feminist Center, 1996.
- Liturgical Offerings:
- Entering a Daughter into the Covenant of the Jewish People (2000)
- Brit Ahuvot ceremonies (1992, 1995, 1999) Selihot Service, Los Angeles Jewish Feminist Center (with Rachel Adler),
(1991)
- High Holy Days Supplement, Congregation Beth Chayim Chadashim. (1988)
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