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Wendy Zierler
Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies
Dr. Zierler is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Modern Jewish Literature. Prior to joining HUC-JIR she was a Research Fellow in the English Department of Hong Kong University where she lived for five and a half years while teaching at the University.
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Education
- BA, Yeshiva University, Stern College (1988)
- MA, Princeton University (1991)
- Ph.D., Princeton University (1995)
- MFA, Sarah Lawrence College (in progress)
Lecture Titles
- The Fool in Jewish Literature
- The Bible and Modern Hebrew Women Writers
- Reel Theology
- Feminist Interpretation of the Akedah
- Portraits of the Rabbi in the Modern Era
Research and Publications
- Books
- Selected Works of Hava Shapiro with Carole B. Balin. Forthcoming from Resling Press, Tel Aviv, 2008
- And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing, Wayne State University
Press, September 2004.
- Journals
- Consulting Editor for two special issues of Nashim dedicated to the theme of Gender and Books,
Numbers 15 and 16, (2008).
- Journal Articles
- "The Making and Remaking of American Jewish Literature," forthcoming in Shofar, Spring 2009.
- "The Letters of Hava Shapiro to Reuven Brainin," forthcoming, Nashim 16, 2008.
- "A Dignitary in the Land?: Literary Representations of the American Rabbi," AJS Review, 30:2
(November 2006): 255-75.
- "In Search of a Feminist Interpretation of the Akedah," Nashim (Summer, 2005).
- "Four Sons of the Holocaust: Leah Goldberg's "Kenegged Arba'ah Banim," Shofar, (Winter 2005)
- My Holocaust Is(n't) Your Holocaust: "Facing" the Holocaust in The Pawnbroker, Higher Ground
and The Nature of Blood, forthcoming in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (the journal of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oxford University Press) 18: 1 (Spring, 2004).
- "The Rabbi's Daughter in and out of the Kitchen," Nashim 5 2002.
- "Chariot(ess) of Fire: Yocheved Bat-Miriam's Female Personifications of the Land of Israel," Prooftexts:
A Journal of Jewish Literary History (2000), Indiana University Press.
- "Devorah Baron's Fiction of Exile," Prooftexts 19 (1999).
- "Your Promised Land, Your Life: American Jewish Women Writers Reflect Upon Zion," Shofar (Summer 1998).
- "The Rebirth of Anzia Yezierska," Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Fall 1993.
- "Footprints, Traces, Memories: The Operation of Memory in Dan Pagis' 'Aqebot.'" Judaism A Quarterly
Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, Fall 1992.
- Chapters in Books/Encyclopedias
- "Where Have all the Women Gone and Other Feminist Questions," and "A Feminist Commentary on the Passover
Haggadah," My People's Haggadah, Lawrence Hoffman and David Arnow eds. (Jewish Lights
Publishing, 2008).
- Introduction to To Speak Her Heart, an illustrated anthology of Jewish Women's Devotional Writings
from the Bible to the present, 2008, edited and illustrated by Leslie Golomb and Barbara Goldman.
- "Staring at the Bookcase: Daughters, Knowledge, and the Fiction of Devorah Baron," in Sheila Jelen and Shachar
Pinsker [Eds.], Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron's Fiction (University of
Maryland Press, 2007).
- "Jo Sinclair" and "Letty Cottin Pogrebin," in Encyclopedia Judaica (2006).
- "Autobiography in North America," "Rachel Kagan," "Anda Pinkerfeld-Amir," "Nehama Puhachevsky," and
"Yokheved Bat-Miriam," in Jewish Women: An Historical Encyclopedia," Paula Hyman ed. (2006)
- "Contemporary Reflections: Vayetze," and "Voices: Baha'alotekha," in The Torah: A Women's Commentary,
ed. Tamara Eskenazi, (URJ Press, 2008).
- "Shedding Feminist Light on the Sabbath Candles," in My People's Prayer Book Volume 8:
Kabbalat Shabbat, Lawrence Hoffman, ed. (Jewish Lights, 2005)
- "Anda Pinkerfed-Amir" and "Caryl Phillips" in The Encyclopedia of Literature of the Holocaust, S.
Lillian Kremer ed. (Routledge, 2002).
- "In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography,"
The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature. Katherine B. Payant and Toby Rose eds. (Greenwood
Press, 1999).
- "The Holocaust Fiction of Aharon Appelfeld," The Encyclopedia of the Novel, Paul Schellinger ed.
(Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999).
- "Autobiography," in Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Paula Hyman and Deborah
Dash Moore, eds), (Routledge, 1997).
- "Hagar and Tamar: Mr. Mani and Feminist Writing" [Hebrew], " in Bakivun ha--negdi: Mar Mani:
Roman sihot (a collection of essays on A.B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani), Nitza Ben-Dov, ed. (Kibbutz
Ha-Meuchad Publishers, 1995).
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