Prof. Naomi Seidman is the Jackman Humanities Professor at the University of Toronto, and was the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Her books include The Marriage Plot: or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature, A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation. She is presently working on a study of the founding of Bais Yaakov network of Jewish girls’ schools in interwar Poland.