Naomi Seidman is Associate Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She is the author of "A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish "(California, 1997). Chana Kronfeld is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book "On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics "(California, 1995) received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize of the Modern Language Association.