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Dr. Reimund Leicht | Department of Jewish Thought

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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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Dr. Reimund Leicht

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Dr.
Reimund
Leicht
Department Chair
Ethel Backenroth Senior Lecturer In Medieval Jewish Studies
Rabin Building, Room 1206. Office Hours: By appointment

I am a senior lecturer at the Department for Jewish Thought and the History Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My fields of interest are the history of philosophy and science in Jewish cultures in the Middles Ages and early modern times within its context in the Islamicate and Christian Worlds, the intellectual history of the Jewish in late Antiquity, Christian-Jewish relations and Christian Kabbalah (Johannes Reuchlin) and the history of 19th-century Wissenschaft das Judentums (Science of Judaism). I am co-directing together with Prof. Giuseppe Veltri (Hamburg) the project for the construction of a digitized thesaurus of pre-modern Hebrew terminology in philosophy and science “PESHAT in Context” (www.peshat.org).