Joy ladin through the door of life5/9/2023 Ladin teaches at the Stern College of Yeshiva University, where she holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English. Ladin is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Hadassah Brandeis Research Fellowships, two Forward Fives awards, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship. Ladin is also the author of a memoir, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012). Ladin has published numerous poetry collections, including The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017), Fireworks in the Graveyard (Headmistress Press, 2017). In 2007, Ladin became the first openly transgender employee of Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution. Joy Ladin There will be a trio of events to discuss her poetry, her most recent book “The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective,” and to facilitate a learning session entitled “Reading Torah Through the Lens of Transgender Experience.” The Center for Jewish Learning presents Community Scholar-in-Residenceĭr.
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