Naomi Seidman

American religious scholar

Naomi Seidman
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Children	1
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship, 2016
Scientific career
Fields	Religion
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley University of Toronto

Website	https://cdts.utoronto.ca/index.php/naomi-seidman-phd/

Naomi Seidman is Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts at the University of Toronto, and was previously Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and the Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.^[1] In 2016, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[2]

She comes from an Orthodox, Yiddish-speaking rabbinic family, and was a daughter of Hassidic Jewish writer Dr. Hillel Seidman.^[3]^[4]

Her writings focus on the relationship between Judaism, literature, gender studies, translation studies, and sexuality.^[5]^[6]

Selected works

Seidman, Naomi (1996), "Elie Wiesel and the scandal of Jewish rage", Jewish Social Studies, 3 (1): 1–19, JSTOR 4467484.
Seidman, Naomi (1997), A marriage made in heaven: The sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish, Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society, vol. 7, University of California Press.
Seidman, Naomi (2010), Faithful renderings: Jewish-Christian difference and the politics of translation, University of Chicago Press.

References

^ "Department for the Study of Religion – Naomi Seidman to join the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies as a Chancellor Jackman Professor in the Arts". Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ T324Admin (2016-04-07). "Naomi Seidman Is Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship". Graduate Theological Union. Retrieved 2019-02-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Dr. Hillel Seidman Passes Away". Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ Pine, Dan (2013-04-26). "Berkeley scholar exalts father who archived life in the ghetto". J. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ "Naomi Seidman, Scholar of Jewish Art, to Deliver Carleton College's Forkosh Lecture in Judaic Studies". Carleton Academics. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
^ "Naomi Seidman, 2016 Bender Visiting Scholar, to Explore Tevye's Dream, Marriage". Boulder Jewish News. 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2019-02-07.