Fishman, Talya

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Contact

215.898.5837
tfishman@sas.upenn.edu

Education

B.A., Wesleyan University (1976)
M.A., Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1979)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1986)

Languages

Hebrew

Courses

History of Jewish Civilization; Jewish-Christian Relations Through the Ages; Introduction to Rabbinic Literature

Overseas Research Experience

Israel

Recent Publications

"Rhineland Pietists' Sacralization of Oral Torah." Jewish Quarterly Review forthcoming (2006); "Rhineland Pietist Approaches to Prayer and the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Northern Europe." Jewish Quarterly Review 11 (2004); "A Medieval Screed Against Textual Emendation." CAJS Web Exhibit: Challenging Boundaries: History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies (2004); "Changing Early Modern Jewish Discourse About Christianity: The Efforts of Leon Modena," in The Lion Will Roar: Rabbi Leon Modena and His Times, ed. David Malkiel. Jerusalem: Magnes Press (2002); "The Penitential System of Hasidei Ashkenaz and the Problem of Cultural Boundaries." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 8 (1999); "Forging Jewish Memory: Besamim Rosh and the Invention of Pre-Emancipation Jewish Culture," in Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, ed. E. Carlebach, J. Efron and D. Myers. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press (1998)

Representative Awards and Distinctions

ACLS Fellowship for Independent Scholars (2000-01); Visiting Scholar, Program in Jewish Studies, Stanford University (1998-99); Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (1995-96); Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship (1995-96); Yad HaNadiv-Barecha Foundation Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1991-92)

Research Interests

Early Modern Jewish Philosophy and Theology; Gender and Religion.