Tuesday, February 24, 2026 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Via Zoom Gila Fine The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic by Gila Fine is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking work of literary and Talmudic interpretation. Fine explores the portrayal of women in the Talmud using tools of modern literary theory, feminist criticism, and close textual analysis to reread classical rabbinic texts. The title alludes to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sandra Gilbert, and Susan Gubar’s famous feminist metaphor of the “madwoman in the attic” – the silenced woman hidden from view – and...