Yaffa Schlesinger
Author and Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Yaffa Schlesinger did her Ph.D. in the sociology of law at New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has written on sex roles and social change in the Kibbutz, Hadassah (the National Zionist Women's Organization in America), the gay synagogue, and the Jewish response to AIDS. She also wrote the book An Interview with My Grandparent, which was published in 1998. She taught courses on deviance, the sociology of the family, and the sociology of art and is a co-editor of "Course Syllabi in the Sociology of Culture" published by the American Sociological Association. She has published numerous articles on Sociology of the family, Sociology of art and Sociology of inequality. She has given seminars, directed independent studies and lectured on the sociology of the Jewish family. Yaffa is also the author of the book An Interview with My Grandparent.
Yaffa resides in Forest Hills, NY. She has 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren.
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Topics:
- Jerusalem of My Youth from Mt Olives to Mt Scopus.
- Moses according to the Torah and According to Freud (Moses and Monotheism) and according to Joseph Yerushalmi (Freud"s Moses)
- Who Is A Jew? Whose Definition? Whose Authority?
- The Jewish Woman: From Sara to Golda and Henrietta Zold.
- The Individual, the Family and the Community in Jewish Tradition and the Narrow Bridge that connects them.
- To Be Jewish and Gay: Congregation Beth Simchat Torah.
- The Kibbutz: A Unique Historical Experience.
- Interview with a Jewish Grandparent.
- The Israeli Society: A Nation State, or a Religious Community.
- Jewish Law and Women’s Rights
- Franz Kafka and his Kafkaesque Vision: The Prophet of the Holocaust which he did not live to experience, but where his family perished
- The Changing Jewish Family
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