“One of the great Talmud teachers of our time.
It’s vitally important the Jewish world hear what
Gila Fine has to say.”
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
“One of the great Talmud teachers of our time.
It’s vitally important the Jewish world hear what
Gila Fine has to say.”
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
“One of the great Talmud teachers of our time.
It’s vitally important the Jewish world hear
what Gila Fine has to say.”
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Gila Fine is the author of The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud, winner of the 2024 Rabbi Sacks Book Prize. She is a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, exploring the tales of the Talmud through philosophy, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and pop-culture. She also serves on the faculties of the Nachshon Project, Amudim Seminary, and the Tikvah Scholars Program, and has taught thousands of students at conferences and communities across the Jewish world. Gila is the recipient of the Maimonides Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. Haaretz has called her “a young woman on her way to becoming one of the more outstanding Jewish thinkers of the next generation.”
As editor in chief of Maggid Books, Gila worked closely with such leading scholars as Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, publishing over a hundred titles of contemporary Jewish thought, including several bestsellers and eight National Jewish Book Award winners. She is also the former editor of Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation. Gila’s work has been featured in the BBC, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Jerusalem Report, Tradition, Jewish News, and The Jewish Chronicle (which selected her as one of the ten most influential Brits in Israel).
