Lori Hope Lefkovitz
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Lori Hope Lefkovitz (born May 6, 1956), the Ruderman Professor of
Biography
A graduate of
Among the courses she teaches or has taught at RRC are: Literary Approaches to Bible; Bible and the Feminist Imagination; Writing for the Rabbinate; Gender and Judaism; Queering Jewish Studies; Jewish Literature.
Since Kolot's founding in 1996, Lefkovitz has convened a landmark conference, together with the Renfrew Center, on Food, Body Image & Judaism, which examined eating disorders; established the Rosh Hodesh: "It's a girl thing!" program, that has popularly been adopted across the country; and, together with Ma'yan, co-founded Ritualwell.org, a Web site for contemporary Jewish ritual now maintained exclusively by Kolot, with Lefkovitz its Executive Editor. Through a joint initiative, she established a program with Temple University awarding a certificate in Jewish Women's Studies.
Lefkovitz serves on editorial and professional boards and lectures widely to academic and Jewish audiences. She is married to Rabbi Leonard Gordon, spiritual leader of Bnai Tikvah, in Canton MA, with whom she has two daughters.
Publications
Widely published in the fields of literature, critical theory, and Jewish Women's Studies, her articles, book chapters, and reviews have appeared in Nashim; Narrative; The Women's Passover Companion; Lilith; Sh'ma Magazine; The Reconstructionist; Hebrew University Studies in Literature and the Arts; Gender and Judaism; Lifecycles; Kerem; The Kenyon Review; A Mensch Among Men; Sister to Sister; and Contemporary Critical Theory.
- The Character of Beauty in the Victorian Novel (UMI Research Press, 1987)
- Editor, Textual Bodies: Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation (SUNY Press, 1997)
- Co-editor with Julia Epstein, Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust (University of Illinois Press, 2001).
- Author: In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities (Rowman and Littlefield, 2010)