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Dr. Reimund Leicht

Ethel Backenroth Senior Lecturer In Medieval Jewish Studies

02-5883561

rwleicht@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1206. Office Hours: By appointment

Prof. Avishai Bar-Asher

Associate Professor

Jewish Thought and Kabbalah Studies

02-5880430

avishai.bar-asher@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1206. Office Hours: Wednesday , 9:15-10:15

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Naama Bar-Tzvi

Dissertation title: "Overdue--The Poetics of Belated Poetry". Advisors: Prof. W. Zeev Harvey, Prof. Avinoam Rosnak.

Shira Baror Melchior

Dissertation title: "Religious Criticism & Protest Against God in the Early Rabbinic Literature". Advisor: Prof. Moshe Halbertal

Emmanuel Bloch

Dissertation title: "Modesty: Halakhah, Meta-Halakhah and Historical Development in the Twentieth Century ". Advisors: Prof. Benjamin Brown, Prof. Suzan Stone

Benjamin Breuer

Dissertation title: "Secularization and Modernity According to the Religious Vision of Abraham Joshua Heschel". Advisor: Prof. Moshe Idel.

Prof. Benjamin Brown

Full Professor

Department Chair

054-6460222

benjamin.brown@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1205. Office Hours: By appointment

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Studies the varieties of Orthodox Judaism, with emphasis on Ultra-Orthodox (haredi) thought - halakhic, hasidic, ethical and ideological.

Roi Cohen

Dissertation title: "Heresy in Belief and the Belief in Heresy--When Nietzsche Meets Rav Kook". Advisor: Prof. Moshe Halbertal.

Prof. Arnold I. Davidson

Distinguished Professor of Humanities

fiorentina@uchicago.edu

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Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, including the philosophy of Modern Orthodox Judaism (Rav Soloveitchik, Rav Lichtenstein, and others), and the relationship between French philosophy and Jewish Thought (Jacob Gordin, Léon Askénazi, Emmanuel Lévinas, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and others); Histo

Dr. Esti Eisenmann

estiei@openu.ac.il

Prof. Rachel Elior

John and Golda Cohen Professor Emerita of Jewish Philosophy

02-5880250

rachel.elior@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 2311

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Prof. David Flatto

Associate Professor

02-5883629

david.flatto@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 3303. Office Hours: By appointment

Prof. Jonathan Garb

Gershom Scholem Professor in Kabbalah

02-5880020

jonathan.garb@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 3110. Office Hours: By email appointment

academia.edu Page

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Research interests: Kabbalah, Comparative Mysticism

Yehoshua Glazman

Dissertation title: "Halakhic Thought in the Teachings of Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg". Advisor: Benjamin Brown.

Prof. Moshe Halbertal

Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

02-5880020

halbe@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 3312

Prof. W. Zeev Harvey

Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought

02-5883663

zeev.harvey@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5338

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Yehuda Hoffman

Dissertation title: "The Unity of Opposites Approach in the Teachings of Rav Kook and its contribution For the Shaping of a Positive Organizational Psychology". Advisors: Avraham N. (Avi) Kluger, Prof. Avinoam Rosnak.