Azila Talit Reisenberger

Dr. Azila Talit Reisenberger is Le Professeur Distinqué; and a distinguished author, the Head of the Hebrew Department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, a champion of Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and an acting Rabba.

Her mother tongue is Hebrew, but Dr. Azila Talit Reisenberger lives in a country where the most common language of academia and literature is English.

[4] Furthermore, Dr. Talit Reisenberger has served since 1989 as an acting Rabbi of Temple Hillel, a Jewish Progressive Synagogue in East London, South Africa.

[5] In March 2015 she was involved in an altercation with a group of black UCT students over their demands for the immediate removal of a statue of the white colonialist Cecil John Rhodes from the campus grounds.

Instead of throwing a tantrum they should be discussing the matter in a proper dialogue.”[6] In addition to her many academic publications Dr. Talit Reisenberger is a prolific writer, she has published several poetry books, most notably:[7] Two of the short stories included in her anthology of short stories Mipo ad Kap Ha’Tikva Ha’Tova (from here to the Cape of Good Hope) in Hebrew, have gained awards from the Author's Association of South Africa.