Biography
Lindsey completed her doctorate at University College London in 2016 in Anthropology and Jewish Studies, after studying Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge, and Prehistory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She held a Rothschild Hanadiv Foundation Europe Postgraduate Fellowship at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester in 2019-2021. In 2021 she received Orthodox rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Maharat, New York.
She has also served as an academic editor for the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, the British Museum, and the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, as well as teaching at Oxford, Kings College London, SOAS, and the London School of Jewish Studies.
Research
My reseach focuses on the British Jewish community, particularly its religious life. My first book examined the religious lives of Orthodox Jewish women in the UK, and I am currently preparing a book on my research into Limmud, the cross-communal educational conference that has taken place annually since 1980, and has inspired over 90 branches abroad in over 40 countries.
Publications
Books and edited volumes
- Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women (2021), The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (imprint of Liverpool University Press).
- Nicola Slee, Dawn Llewellyn, Kim Wasey and Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (eds.), Female Faith Practices: Qualitative Research Perspectives (Taylor & Francis/Routledge: Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology Series, 2024)
Articles
- ‘“A Taste of the World to Come”: Time, Timelessness, and Community at Limmud Festival’, European Journal of Jewish Studies, 19/1 (2025), 1-21.
- ‘Unity and Multiplicity: The Paradox of Revelation’, in Gregor Maria Hoff and Julia Knop (eds.), Widerständige Offenbarung: Ein theologisches Motiv in der Diskussion (Herder, 2025), 25-30.
- ‘Transmission, Mimesis, and Gender: Haym Soloveitchik’s “Rupture and Reconstruction” in the Light of Jewish Women’s Kashrut Practices’, in Nicola Slee, Dawn Llewellyn, Kim Wasey, and Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz (eds.), Female Faith Practices: Qualitative Research Perspectives (Taylor & Francis/Routledge: Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology Series, 2024), 105-122.
- ‘Mishlei – Proverbs: Weaving the Web of Wisdom’, European Judaism, 54 (2021), 45-53.
Teaching and Supervisions
- Modern Judaism: Thought, Culture, and History (B14)
- The Jewish Tradition and Christianity: From Antiquity to Modernity (C8)
- Who Owns Judaism? Gender, Ritual, and Authority (MPhil)
