Authors Posts by Marina Zilbergerts
Marina Zilbergerts
Marina Zilbergerts is a scholar of Jewish literature and thought. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, and from 2016 to 2022 taught as the Lipton Assistant Professor of Eastern European Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature (Indiana University Press), a work of scholarship, and of the poetry book You Were Adam (Wipf & Stock, 2022). She teaches and publishes on Jewish ideas, culture, music, and literature for Tradition, Lehrhaus, and Prooftexts.
Wicked
In this poetic tale from Marina Zilbergerts's recent poetry book You Were Adam (Wipf and Stock), a learned and passionate woman struggles with her yetser hara, nicknamed "Wicked." The yetser is imagined as a fantastic character who accompanies her through Jewish Toronto's banal suburbia. "Wicked '' is a sympathetic and tragic apikores who knows how to get her where it hurts, but he also speaks the truth. He is a careful social observer present with her at all times. From going on weekly shopping trips, being in shul, to more intimate moments, this demonic character becomes her unlikely friend. In an ironic twist, the lessons taught to her by her yetser help her embark on the path of repentance.
Tzaddik ve-Ra Lo: Revisiting the Problem of Evil in Chaim Grade’s My Quarrel with...
Marina Zilbergerts presents the philosophical questions posed by Chaim Grade's “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,” and compares his arguments to those of other major thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
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