She has translated several works from Hebrew, French, and German, and is the author of Tradition and Fantasy in the Tales of Reb Nahman of Bratslav. Susan Handelman is professor of literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a former professor of English and Jewish studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in Scholem, Benjamin and Levinas and The Slayer of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory.