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Department Chair: Dr. Reimund Leicht
Email: rwleicht@mail.huji.ac.il

Advisor to BA Students: Prof. Benjamin Pollock
Email: benjamin.pollock@mail.huji.ac.il

Advisor to MA Students: Dr. Tanja Werthmann
Email: tanja.werthmann@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Secretary: Maya Ben-Simhon
Email: mayabe@savion.huji.ac.il
Phone: +972-2-5883605
Humanities Building, Room 45402

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PhD Students

Naama Bar-Tzvi

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

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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.

 

Roi Cohen

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

Yehoshua Glazman

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

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.

Shulamit Lehman

Dissertation title: "The Principles of Discipleship from the Perspective of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov--The Baal Shem Tov's Grandson--and their Echos in His Book Degel Machaneh Ephraim". Advisor: Prof. Moshe Idel.

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Dafna Shcreiber

Dissertation title: "Yisrael Alter and the Ger Hasidic Dynasty in Israel: Beliefs, Values and Hasidic Politics (1948-1977)". Advisor: Prof. Benjamin Brown.

Shulamit Wodowitz

Dissertation title: "The Book of Visions, a Mystical Training Vehicle for the Discipleship of Hayym Vital, for His Generation". Advisor: Prof. Moshe Idel.