Book Salon & Beit Midrash - And The Bride Closed The Door by Ronit Matalon

Facilitated by Professor Shai Secunda

Co-sponsored by 929 English and IDRA

When one door closes another one opens. And sometimes, the closed door is the open one. In the next session of the 929/Idra Book Salon and Beit Midrash we will discuss the late Ronit Matalon’s And The Bride Closed The Door a short, masterful novella about a bride who refuses to come out of her room on her wedding day. Together, we will learn classical Jewish sources about brides, expectations, and what happens when those expectations are subverted.

Shai Secunda occupies the Jacob Neusner chair in Judaism at Bard College, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions program. He is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Sasanian Iran (Philadelphia, 2014), and The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context (Oxford, 2020), and writes regularly for the Jewish Review of Books on Jewish scholarship and culture.

Free of charge, suggested donation $15.