Rabbi Dr. Yedidah Koren

Yedidah is an assistant professor at Princeton University in the Department of Religion. She holds a PhD in Talmud from Tel Aviv University, and is currently working on her book on Jews of blemished lineage in Rabbinic Literature, and the ways in which lineage marital prohibitions are used as a way to delegitimize other Jews and separate from them. Yedidah has studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Migdal Oz, Drisha, and Matan, and she holds a BA in Talmud and Classics from Hebrew University. Before teaching at Princeton, Yedidah has also taught at Drisha, Yeshivat Hadar, Bar Ilan University, and the Paideia Institute in Stockholm.