People

Dr. Reimund Leicht

rwleicht@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 1206. Office Hours: By appointment

Prof. Avishai Bar-Asher

Department Chair

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

Ms. Maya Ben-Simchon

Department Secretary

+972 2 5883605

mayabe@savion.huji.ac.il

Humanities building, room no. 45402

Office Hours: Sun 10:30-14:30, Mon 12:00-14:30, Tue-Wed 10:00-14:00

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

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.

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

rachel.elior@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 2311

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Prof. David Flatto

david.flatto@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 3303. Office Hours: By appointment

Prof. Jonathan Garb

jonathan.garb@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 3110

Office Hours: By 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

halbe@mail.huji.ac.il

Rabin Building, Room 3312

Prof. W. Zeev Harvey

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.