"To Tread on New Ground"

Wendy I. Zierler is Sigmund Falk professor of modern Jewish literature and feminist studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She is the author of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women's Writing (Wayne State University Press, 2004), co-editor with Carole B. Balin of Behikansi atah [Selected Works by Hava Shapiro], and has written numerous articles and essays in the fields of modern Jewish literature and Jewish feminist studies, including a feminist Haggadah commentary included in My People's Passover Haggadah, edited by Hoffman and Darnow. Carole B. Balin is professor of Jewish history at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. Seen nationally on the PBS documentary "The Jewish People: A Story of Survival," she is the author of To Reveal Our Hearts: Jewish Women Writers of Tsarist Russia and co-editor of Behikansi atah [Selected Works by Hava Shapiro] with Wendy I. Zierler, as well as Sisterhood: A Centennial History of Women of Reform Judaism with Dana Herman, Jonathan D. Sarna, and Gary P. Zola. She co-curated "Bat Mitzvah Comes of Age," a traveling exhibit of the National Museum of American Jewish History and Moving Traditions.