Wendy Zierler Author & Editor

Sheila Jelen, Zantker Professor in Jewish Literature, Culture, and History, is an associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Jelen has published a variety of monographs and edited volumes including, most recently, Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies. Jeffrey Saks is the founding director of The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education, in Jerusalem, and its WebYeshiva.org program. He is the editor of the journal Tradition, series editor of The S.Y. Agnon Library at The Toby Press, and Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem.Wendy Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in New York. She is the author of Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation. In 2017 she became coeditor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History.