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Ilana Kurshan

Ilana Kurshan is the author of the memoir If All the Seas Were Ink (St. Martin’s Press), which won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and was recently released in paperback from Picador. She lives, writes, and translates in Jerusalem.

Setting the Table

Setting the Table

Ilana Kurshan

“How will women’s proficiency in learning change family dynamics? . . . How will their sons view a woman’s capacity for rigorous study? Will women want a different sort of husband—one who is not threatened or intimated by an educated woman?”