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 applies it to women who appear in the margins of Jewish sacred texts. Fine examines the six named heroines of the Talmud Yalta the shrew, Homa the femme fatale, Marta the prima donna, Heruta the madonna/whore, Beuria the overreaching, and Ima Shalom, the angel in the house – revealing that there is more to these women than meets the eye.

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Questions? Contact Stacy Emoff at semoff@jfgd.net.