Ellen Golub is the author of PsychoSemitic, a comic novel in the tradition of Sholem Aleichem. She also is author of the newly released second edition of the J Girl’s Guide. For several years she taught American Jewish literature at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a long-time journalist in the Jewish press. She writes from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, where she is working with Shulamit Reinharz on feminist interpretations of the parshiot.
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