Agnes Veto

Ágnes (Ági) Veto grew up in Budapest, where she undertook the study of Hebrew and Aramaic, and earned an undergraduate degree in biblical and Jewish Studies from Eotvos Lorand University. She received an advanced degree in Jewish Studies from the London University School of Oriental and African Studies and spent a year at Oxford Postgraduate Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She spent two years in Paris at the Sorbonne, at both the Institute Catholique and École Practique Des Hauts Études, as student, translator and teacher of English, and has studied Talmud at the Pardes Institute, a co-educational yeshiva in Jerusalem. Ms. Veto earned an M.A. in Jewish Studies at the Rothberg Graduate School of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a further M.A. at New York University, where she also teaches, and is currently completing a PhD in Jewish Studies with an emphasis on Talmud and Rabbinic literature. She has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Vassar College, where she has taught both general introductions to rabbinic literature, and courses on women in the classical Jewish tradition. Widely travelled and deeply committed to showing the world to students, she is fluent in four languages. She has accordingly proved indispensable in helping to conceptualize, teach and guide Vassar’s famous Jewish Studies Travel Seminar, which has enabled a racially, ethnically and religiously diverse group of students to experience Jewish Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Paris, and Budapest.