Shulamit S. Magnus Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Oberlin College. She is the author of five published books and numerous articles on Jewish modernity and the history of Jewish women, and winner of a National Jewish Book award and other prizes. Her latest book, Jewish Marital Captivity: The Past, Present, and End of a Historic Abuse, is the first history of agunot and iggun from medieval times to the present, across the Jewish map. It also assesses and critiques current policy on Jewish marital captivity in the US and Israel and makes proposals to end this abuse. See the website devoted to full, accurate, and honest information about the source of this abuse and how to end it: https://www.projectmiriam.org. She is a founder of women's group prayer at the Kotel and first-named plaintiff on a case before the Supreme Court of Israel seeking enforcement of Jewish women's already-recognized right to read Torah at the Kotel. Her opinions have been published in the Forward, Tablet, EJewish Philanthropy, Moment, the Times of Israel, Haaretz, and the Jerusalem Post.
