Toldot with Nehama Aschkenasy

Jewish Quest · 9 ноября 2026 г. · 43 мин

Send us Fan Mail Professor Nehama Aschkenasy discusses the story of Dinah from multiple-perspectives.  Professor Nehama Aschkenasy is Professor (emerita) of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. Aschkenasy is the author of Eve’s Journey: Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition a Choice selection and winner of the Present Tense Literary Award, and Woman at the Window: Biblical Tales of Oppression and Escape . She has also contributed numerous chapters and articles to edited books and scholarly journals, and served as Associate Editor of the AJS Review . Her teaching and research focus on the reappearance of biblical patterns in Hebraic and English literary traditions, literary art in the Bible, women in Hebraic literary tradition, and politics and society in contemporary Israeli fiction.