Dr. Malka Simkovich
Sacks Scholar
Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich is the Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Jewish Publication Society. She previously served as the Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her scholarly contributions include three published books: "The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria" (2016), "Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism" (2018), which received the 2019 AJL Judaica Reference Honor Award, and "Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity" (2024).
A Leon Charney Fellow at the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies and a Kogod Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Simkovich speaks regularly to audiences across North America and beyond on topics related to the Hebrew Bible, Jewish history, and contemporary Jewish-Christian relations.