Emeritus at Ben Gurion University of the Negev
About
Naomi Graetz taught English at Ben Gurion University of the Negev for 35 years. She is the author of Unlocking the Garden: A Feminist Jewish Look at the Bible, Midrash and God (Piscataway NJ: Gorgias Press, 2005), The Rabbi’s Wife Plays at Murder (Beersheva: Shiluv Press, 2004), S/He Created Them: Feminist Retellings of Biblical Stories (Professional Press, 1993; second edition Gorgias Press, 2003), and Silence is Deadly: Judaism Confronts Wifebeating (Jason Aronson, 1998).
Her many book reviews, midrashim, columns, articles on women and metaphor in the Bible and Midrash have appeared in such journals and edited books as Bridges, Conservative Judaism, Shofar, Nashim, Judaism, Hagar, The Jerusalem Report, The Jerusalem Post, A Feminist Companion to the Bible (ed. Atahlyah Brenner), Gender and Judaism (ed. Tamar Rudavsky), Jewish Mothers Tell Their Stories (ed. Rachel Josefowitz Siegel et al.), All the Women Followed Her (ed. Rebecca Schwartz), Biblical Women in the Midrash (ed. Naomi M. Hyman), The Women’s Seder Sourcebook (ed. Tara Mohr), Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives (eds. Kalpana Misra and Melanie Rich) and Praise her works: Conversations with Biblical Women (ed. Penina Edelman) and Att tolka Bibeln och Koranen: Konflict och forhandling [in Swedish] (ed. Hanna Stenström).
Her current areas of interest are: teaching Jewish Sources about trafficking and workshops teaching women to study and engage in writing Midrash.
