Movies and Midrash

Movies and Midrash: Popular film and Jewish religious conversation

- Rabbi Dr. Wendy Zierler

This book uses popular cinema as a springboard to reflect central Jewish texts and matters of belief. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought.

Rabbi Dr. Wendy Zierler is a professor of modern Jewish literature and feminist studies at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.