Marina Zilbergerts is a scholar of Jewish literature and thought. She grew up in Zhitomir, Tel Aviv, and Toronto and received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. From 2016-2022, sh...view moreMarina Zilbergerts is a scholar of Jewish literature and thought. She grew up in Zhitomir, Tel Aviv, and Toronto and received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. From 2016-2022, she was the Lipton Assistant Professor of Eastern European Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature (Indiana University Press). Her first book of poetry, a series of retellings of Genesis called You Were Adam, was recently published by Wipf & Stock. The book explores themes in Jewish thought and mysticism in contemporary ways, blending poetic rereadings of Genesis and Greek mythology with vignettes from everyday life.view less