Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman—Joy Ladin. In her book, Through the Door of Life, Joy allows us inside her transition as she changes genders and, in the process, creates a new self.
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Joy Ladin, the David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University and the first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. She is the author of five books of poetry.
