Yedidah Koren has recently moved from Jerusalem to New York to take on the position of assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Yedidah holds a PhD in Talmud from Tel Aviv University and is currently working on her book on Jews of blemished lineage in Rabbinic literature and the ways in which lineage and marital prohibitions are used for inner Jewish separation. Yedidah has studied at Midreshet Lindenbaum, Migdal Oz, Drisha, and Matan, and she holds a BA in Talmud and Classics from Hebrew University. Before teaching at Princeton, Yedidah has taught at Drisha, Yeshivat Hadar, Bar Ilan University, and the Paideia Institute in Stockholm. Yedidah loves teaching about ancient Judaism and connecting rabbinic literature, Second Temple literature, and ancient material artifacts.