Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg (born March 1944) is a Scottish contemporary Torah scholar and author.
She was born in London, England, grew up in Glasgow, Scotland,[1] and moved to Israel in 1969, where she currently resides in Jerusalem.
Zornberg's family fled Austria after the Nazi takeover which led to the collapse of Jewish life and subsequent genocide of the Holocaust.
Zornberg has grown to world acclaim through her writing and teaching of biblical commentary on the books of the Torah.
She has lectured and taught internationally[3] and has appeared on PBS[4] (the American television Public Broadcasting Service) in Genesis: A Living Conversation, a series of programs discussing the Book of Genesis produced and hosted by Bill Moyers.