Bridges and Door Knockers: Iraqi Jewish Women Write Home
Katz Center
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
At the weekly Ruth Meltzer Seminars, Katz Center fellows share their research with Penn and regional faculty in an intellectually rigorous workshop setting.
Event photo: Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times.
Featuring
Nancy E. Berg
Washington University St. Louis
Nancy E. Berg is a professor of Hebrew language and literature in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. While much of her scholarship focuses on the literature of Iraqi Jews, she also explores Israeli women’s writing, memory, and food. She coedited the National Jewish Book Award-winning What We Talk about When We Talk about Hebrew (University of Washington Press, 2018) with Nancy Sinkoff. Her latest collaboration, edited with Dina Danon, is Longing and Belonging: Jews of the Modern Islamic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025) a volume that evolved from their 2018–2019 fellowship at the Katz Center.
Berg earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.