Mara Benjamin
Mara H. Benjamin is a Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. She is also Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She holds a Ph.D. in modern Jewish thought and religious studies from Stanford University. Her 2018 book, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (Indiana) received the 2019 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of
Mara Benjamin joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg of the Judaism Unbound podcast for a conversation about her book The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought. They look through a Jewish lens at questions of obligation and choice, and how those questions intersect with the topic of motherhood.
