Shana Strauch Schick

Dr. Shana Strauch Schick is a scholar of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. She earned her PhD in Talmudic Literature from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School, where she also completed an MA in Bible. She has held research fellowships at several Israeli universities and has taught Talmud and Jewish law at the Drisha Institute.

Shana’s research explores rabbinic law, gender, and the relationship between legal reasoning and narrative in classical Jewish texts. She is the author of Intention in Talmudic Law: Between Thought and Deed (Brill, 2021), and has published numerous scholarly articles on rabbinic literature, including studies of women in the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds.