Dina Ripsman Eylon

Author and publisher, Dina Ripsman Eylon has a Ph.D. in Post-biblical Hebrew Language and Literature from the University of Toronto. For the past 24 years, she has served as the publisher and editor-in-chief of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal. This gender-related publication have engaged and promoted new feminist scholarship in Jewish Studies.
In her book Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism (2003), Ripsman Eylon examines the development of the concept of reincarnation, gilgul, in the first kabbalistic work that deals with the topic, the late-12th-century Sefer ha-Bahir (The Book of Clarity). She discusses background historical information on the theory of reincarnation in eastern and western thought, the soul and afterlife in Talmudic and Midrashic literature and in the Nag Hammadi library, and the doctrine of reincarnation in the Bahir itself. Some of Eylon’s articles and poems appeared in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, American Writers Classics, Encyclopedia of Rape, Kinesis, American National Biography, and Reader’s Guide to Judaism.
Dina was the founder of the Vaughan Poets' Circle and served as the Thornhill branch manager of the Ontario Poetry Society. Her poems were published in various magazines and journals and in the anthologies Convergence: Poets for Peace, Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv, Enchanted Crossroads and Stress(full) Sister(hood. Her chapbook Songs of Love and Misgivings was first published in September 2006 (re-published as a revised and enlarged edition in 2017). In 2007, she edited a collection of poems entitled Waging Change: Vaughan Poets Engage in Politics. In 2011, Dina's second poetry collection The Heart of the City and Other Urban Poems was published by Sisterhood Press. In 2011, her poetry collection in Hebrew, entitled On the Horizon in the First Person was published by Eked, Tel-Aviv. Until Borders Collapse: A Bilingual Poetry Collection was published in 2017.
BOOKS:
Until Borders Collapse: A Bilingual Poetry Collection. E-book. Thornhill, On: Sisterhood Press, 2017.
The Heart of the City and Other Urban Poems. Sisterhood Press, 2011.
Kav Ha-Ofek Be-Guf Rishon [On the Horizon in First Person] (Hebrew). Eked Publishing, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2011.
In the Heart of the City. Sisterhood Press, 2010.
Waging Change: Vaughan Poets Engage in Politics. Editor. Friendly Poetry Press, 2007.
Songs of Love and Misgivings. Beret Days Press, 2006. Revised and enlarged edition, Sisterhood Press, 2017).
Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.