Renée Levine Melammed

Renée Levine Melammed received her degrees from Smith College and Brandeis University. Her dissertation and early research dealt with the lives of crypto-Jewish women in Spain and the way in which conversos coped with the issue of their identity; her research now is focusing on women’s lives as reflected in the Cairo Geniza. She is a professor of Jewish history at the Schechter Institutes in Jerusalem, teaching courses in medieval Jewish history and gender studies as well as in Jews of Spain and Islamic lands.