Stanford Humanities Center
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert specializes in Judaism: talmudic literature and culture. Her interests include gender in Jewish culture; the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity; the discourses of orthodoxy versus heresy; the connection between religion and space; and rabbinic conceptions of Judaism with respect to Greco-Roman culture.
She is the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000), which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of that year and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. She also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature(2007), together with Martin Jaffee (University of Washington).
Currently, she is working on a manuscript entitled Replacing the Nation: Judaism, Diaspora and the Neighborhood. Fonrobert is Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Classics and of German Studies at Stanford.
SHC Project
Re-Placing the Nation: Jewish Diaspora and Neighborhood
The basic question of this book is the question of how we account for the grounds of Jewish diaspora and for the longevity of Jewish culture as diaspora, along with articulating the possibilities of an ongoing commitment to diaspora as a frame for Jewish political and cultural creativity, for a Jewish future.
