Creator Bio
Rebecca Goldstein
b. 1950
A novelist and philosopher, Rebecca Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, attended Barnard College, received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University, and has taught philosophy and creative writing at Trinity College and Harvard University. Her writing has achieved both critical and popular acclaim, and she is the recipient of a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship and the 2006 Koret Book Award in Jewish Thought.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Counting the Omer
Leiba recognized that Fraydel was in danger of disappearing down the well of her own thoughts.
Fraydel was a secret keeping herself from the world. When she spoke, it was yet another way of keeping…
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Looking Back at Lot’s Wife
It was one of the stories from Genesis that most frightened me as a child: the story of Lot’s wife.
She was told not to look, and she looked; and her punishment came swift and horrible. Frozen in…