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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg was born in wartime London, where her parents found refuge after the 1938 Nazi takeover of Austria. When she was five years old, the family moved to Glasgow and her father, an eminent rabbi, was appointed head of the Rabbinical Court of Scotland. Growing up, Avivah studied the Bible with her father every day and continued her Jewish education as a student at Gateshead Seminary near Newcastle.

While still in her teens, she co-authored a book of Bible studies, Sabbath Shiurim, with Rabbi M. Miller, which won such wide acclaim in Orthodox Jewish circles that Feldheim Publishers commissioned her to translate a work about the Book of Proverbs by the great 19th century Biblical commentator known as the Malbim. 

A lover of all literature, Avivah went on to enroll at Cambridge University, earning a double first B.A. and a Ph.D. with a thesis on the writings of George Eliot.

Upon moving to Jerusalem shortly thereafter, Avivah became a popular lecturer in English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1975, she married physicist Eric Zornberg, with whom she has three children and ten grandchildren to date.

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