Dr. Shana Strauch Schick

Dr. Shana Strauch Schick is a lecturer in Rabbinic Literature in the Multidisciplinary Department of Jewish Studies. In addition to lecturing at Bar Ilan, she is a summer visiting adjunct professor at the Yeshiva University and teaches Talmud and Jewish Law at the Drisha Institute. In 2011 she became the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Talmud from the Bernard Revel Graduate School. Her publications range widely on subjects in rabbinic literature and include two books: Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed (Brill, 2021), and an upcoming monograph entitled Women in Rabbinic Law and Narrative: Vying Currents in Babylonian and Palestinian Texts.