Lehman, Marjorie

Marjorie Lehman is Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary and the Area Chair of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures. Her books include: The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus (Wayne State University Press, 2012) and Bringing Down the Temple House: Engendering Tractate Yoma (Brandeis University Press, 2022). Along with Jane Kanarek she has co-edited two books, Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination (Liverpool: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization at Liverpool University Press, 2017) and Learning to Read Talmud: What it Looks Like and How It Happens (Academic Studies Press, 2017). She is also the co-director of the digital humanities project in Jewish Studies called Footprints: Jewish Books in Time and Place (http://footprints.ctl.columbia.edu/). Footprints tracks the global movement of copies of Jewish books since the inception of print. She co-directs the Jewish Librarianship Certificate Program, a joint endeavor between the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Association of Jewish Libraries.