Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her fourth book, published in 2019, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition, received a National Jewish Book Award. In 2024, she published Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2016-2017.
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