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HistoryFigurecontemporaine (XXe–XXIe s.)

רות קלדרון

Region: Israël (Tel-Aviv, Jérusalem)

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Israeli holder of a doctorate in Talmud (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). She founded in 1989 a secular, egalitarian, and pluralistic beit midrash in Jerusalem, then in 1996 ALMA (Tel-Aviv), a center of Jewish culture for secular audiences. Member of Knesset (Yesh Atid, 2013–2015), her first speech interpreting a Talmudic text went viral. She is the author of literary rereadings of Talmudic narratives that highlight women's voices.

A book yet to be written

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This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Ruth Calderon give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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