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Christine Benvenuto is an American journalist and writer. Her most famous books are "Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World" and "Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On".

Background

Christine Benvenuto grew up in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Education

Christine Benvenuto graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a Master of Arts degree.

Career

Christine Benvenuto works as a freelance journalist and writer. To earn a living, she has polished paperweights, taught journalism and edited and ghost-written highly complex works on science and technology that she did not understand.

Christine wrote "Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World" in 2004. That book is about a very personal subject. In "Shiksa" Benvenuto traces the history of non-Jewish women in Jewish society from Biblical times to the present. She is the author of "Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On" that was written in 20013 and "Sextet: A literary love triangle" written in 2014. Now she lives and works in New England, United States.

Achievements

  • Christine Benvenuto's short stories, articles, fictions and essays have appeared in many publications and she is the winner of the 2012 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize for her story "Death in Brooklyn".

Religion

Christine Benvenuto attends synagogue and has read rabbinic writings and the Torah.

Connections

Jay (after Joy Ladin) and Christine Benvenuto met and fell in love at college and soon after that they got married. But after 20 years of marriage husband decides to become a woman. The family continued living normally, but eventually, it was something that Christine and their children couldn’t ignore. It resulted in Jay losing interest in the family and soon Benvenuto realized she and her husband had nothing in common leading to divorce.

Ex-husband:
Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin - Ex-husband of Christine Benvenuto