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Dvora Weisberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Rabbinical Literature
Dvora Weisberg is Associate Professor of Rabbinics and Director of the Beit Midrash at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. at Brandeis University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Before coming to HUC, Dr. Weisberg taught at the College of William and Mary and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Weisberg is especially interested in gender issues in rabbinic texts. Her forthcoming book focuses on levirate marriage and constructs of the family in rabbinic Judaism.
Areas of Expertise
- Gender issues in rabbinic texts
- Rabbis' Daughters in the Talmud
- Women and ritual observance
- Levirate Marriage in ancient Judaism
Education
- Ph.D., Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary (1994)
Lecture Titles
- Rabbinic Reflection on Good and Evil
- The Well-Lived Life: A Rabbinic Prescription
- Why Reform Jews Should Study Talmud
- Women as Pray-ers in Jewish Tradition
- The Rabbinic Roots of Tikkun Olam
- Rabbis' Daughters in the Talmud
Publications
- "Women and Aggadah" in Aggadah, Encyclopedia Judaica I:459, (2006)
- "Desirable But Dangerous: Rabbis' Daughters in the Babylonian Talmud." HUCA, 75 (2004) 121-161.
- "The Widow of Our Discontent: Levirate Marriage in the Bible and Ancient Israel," JSOT 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." In 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." In The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Vol. 1
(Fall 1998), 37-69.
- "The Study of Torah as a Spiritual Act." In Four Centuries of Jewish Women's 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.
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