Ilana Kurshan teaches Talmud at the Yeshiva. She is the author of Children of the Book (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), If All the Seas Were Ink (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), and Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights (Schocken, 2005). She has a degree in History of Science from Harvard and in English literature from Cambridge, and has worked in literary publishing both in New York and in Jerusalem – as a translator, a foreign rights agent, and as the Books Editor of Lilith Magazine. Since October 2020, Ilana has been a regular contributor to Torah Sparks, our weekly parashat hashavuah blog.