Dr Pam Peled

Pamela Peled was born in South Africa in 1957. At 17, she left home for Jerusalem to study English literature at the Hebrew University. After completing her MA she taught for many years and then received a PhD in literature at Bar Ilan University. She is a journalist with two columns in the Jerusalem Post and is a contributing editor of ESRAmagazine. She also writes a regular column for the Jewish Renaissance journal in London and the monthly newsletter for the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Pam lectures at the IDC (Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzlia) and Beit Berl College in Israel and gives guest lectures in Europe, England and America. Her expertise is on English Literature, including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Swift, Arthur Miller, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and poetry. She also lectures on feminism and public speaking. She is the author of How to Have a Husband and Live with your Lover (at the Same Time) (2005), For the Love of God and Virgins (2010), and Three Ladies, Three Lattes (2014). Pam lives near Tel Aviv and has three daughters.