Professor
Curriculum Vit
Person
Place of Birth:
Citizenship: Israeli
Address:
Home telephone: 972-2- 6714856
University phone: 972-2- 5880250
E-mail: mselio@mscc.huji.ac.il
http://pluto.huji.
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1973 B.A. Summa Cum Laude, The
1976 PhD Summa Cum Laude, The
Positions held at The
1979 Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought
1983 Senior Tenured Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought
1988 Associate Professor
1994 Senior Professor
1998 John and Golda Cohen Chair of Jewish Philosophy
2004-08 Ch
Positions held at other Universities
1982 Visiting Lecturer,
1983 Visiting Lecturer,
1987 Visiting Professor,
1995 Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Religion, (Winter term)
1998 Research Fellow,
2001 Visiting Professor,
2001 Visiting Professor, Case Western University,
2002 Distinguished Foreign Academic Lecturer,
2003 Visiting Professor,
2003 Visiting Professor,
2004 Visiting Professor,
2005 Visiting Professor,
2007 Visiting Professor,
2008 Visiting Professor,
2008 Visiting Professor, Doshish
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1973-1976 Academic Excellence Award of the Liberal Arts Faculty of the
1979-1982 Yigal Alon Brecha Trust award for Excellence in Academic Achievement
1975, 1976, 1978, 1988 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award for Academic Achievement and Excellence
1976, 1978, 1979 Warburg Prize of the
1983 Humanitarian Trust Award,
1983-84 Yad Avi Hayishuv (
1985 Y
1989-90 Solomon Yaffe Award of Jewish Studies
1989-90 Lakarietz Award of Martin Buber Studies and Modern Jewish thought
1991-92 Research Fund Award of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, the
1992-93
1993-94 Luscius Littauer Award for Academic Leadership,
1991-1994 Federman Award from the Institute of Jewish Studies, the
1994-95 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award
1994-97 Research Grant from the
1995-7 Zehava & Zvi Friedenberg Award of Excellence of the
1998
1998 John and Golda Cohen Chair for Jewish Philosophy
2000 Sir Isaac Wolfson Foundation Award,
2001 Amos Foundation Award (The President of the State of Israel award for Academic publication)
2002-03 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award
2006 Gershom Scholem Aw
2007-8 Memori
Research Interests
Principal Subjects:
The History of Jewish Mysticism. Within this extensive subject my concerns focus on five centr
1.) The Origins of Early Jewish Mysticism as recorded in the Heikalot and Merkavah Literature as well as in the Priestly Library and Liturgy as found in the Dead Sea Scrolls
2.) Study of the Kabbalah in the period from the Jewish Expulsion of Spain and its development through Safed (Karo-Luria) as well as its use by the Sabbatean and Frankist movements (1492-1800)
3.) The relation between Mysticism and Freedom versus Myth and Enslavement-their literary representations and historical implications.
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5.) Aspects of Gender concerning the
Public
List of books in English and in Hebrew transliterated and translated into English is marked below
Professor Rachel Elior
Publications
I. Books:
1) Revealing Secrets (Hebrew); Galia Raza, Critical Edition of
2) The Theory of Divinity of Hasidut Habad - Second Generation (Hebrew), Torat HaElohut BaDor HaSheni Shel Hasidut Habad,
3) The Lesser Heikalot, Critical Edition of
4) The Paradoxical Ascent to God: The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism;
5) Unity of Opposites, The Mystical Theosophy of Habad ; (Hebrew), Torat Ahdut HaHafachim, ha-Theosophia HaMistit Shel Habad,
6) Different Faces of Freedom, Studies in Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew), Paneia HaShonot Shel HaHerut: Iyunim BeMistika Yehudit; Alpayim 15, Tel Aviv: Am Oved
1997-98
7) Freedom on the Tablets, The Mystical Origins and Kabbalistic Foundations of Hasidic Thought (Hebrew), Herut Al HaLuchot , HaMachshava HaHasidit, Mekoroteia HaMisytim VeYesodoteia HaKabalyim; Tel Aviv: Broadcast University, Ministry of Defense Press, 2000
8) Temple and Chariots, Priests and Angels, Sanctum and Shrines in Early Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew), Mikdash U-Merkava, Cohanim VeMalachim, Heikhal Ve Heikhalot BaMistika HaYehudit HaKedumah, Jerusalem; The Hebrew University Magnes Press 2002
9) Heikh
10) The
11) The Mystical Origins of Hasidism;
12.) Jewish Mysticism, The Infinite Expression of Freedom;
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13.) Dybbuk
14.) Memory
II. Books Edited
1) Lurianic Kabbalah, Kabalat Haari (eds. R. Elior &Y. Liebes) (Hebrew),
2) Stud
3) Memori
4) The Dream and its Interpretation: The Sabbatean Movement and Its Aftermath: Messianism Sabbatianism and Frankism, HaHalom ve Shivro , haTenua haShabtait veShluchoteiah; Meshichiut Shabtaut uFrankism (ed. R. Elior) (Hebrew &English), Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, (vols. 16-17) Jerusalem 2001
5) Jacob Frank: The Sayings of the Lord , Divrei haAadon leYaacov Frank, (ed. R. Elior), (Hebrew). Interim edition of
6) Men and Women: On Gender Judaism and Democracy, (ed. R. Elior), Van Leer Institute and Urim Publications, Jerusalem 2004
7) Creation and Re-Creation in Jewish Thought: Festschrift in Honor of Joseph Dan On the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, (eds. R. Elior & P. Schafer)
III. Articles in L
. 1) "Messianic Expectations and Spiritualization of Religious Life in the 16th Centuty", Revue D'etudes Juives CXLV(1-2),(1986): 35-49
) "Schafer's Synopse zur Hekhalot Literatur", Jewish Quarterly Review 2
nos.2-3 (1986-7) : 213-217:
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4) "Soul- Nefesh, The Jewish Doctrine of the Soul", Contemporary Jewish Thought (eds. A. Cohen and P. Mendes-Flohr),
5) "Between "Yesh" and "Ayin"; the Doctrine of the Zaddik in the Works of Jacob Isaac, the Seer of
6) "The Concept of God in Hekhalot Literature", Binah, Studies in Jewish Thought, vol. 2, (ed. J. Dan),
7) "Schafer's Geniza Fragmente zur Hekhalot Literatur", The Jewish Quarterly Review LXXX, nos.1-2 (1989):142-145
8) "Merkabah Mysticism; A Critical Review [D. Halperin, Faces of the Chariot
9) "Messianic Expectations and Spiritualization of Religious Life in the 16th Century", Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Rnaissance and Baroque
. ""Hasidism – Historical Continuity and Spiritual Change (10
In: Gershom Scholem's "Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism"- 50 Years After, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism, (eds. P. Schafer and J. Dan),
11) "Mysticism Magic and Angelology; The Perception of Angels in Hekhalot Literature", Jewish Studies Quarterly, (
. 12) "Rabbi Nathan Adler of
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13) "The Doctrine of Transmigration in Galya Raza", Essential Papers on Kabbalah, (ed. L. Fine),
14) "The Paradigms of "Yesh" and "Ayin" in Hasidic Thought", Hasidism Reappraised – The Social Functions of Mystical Ideals in Judaism, (ed.) A. Rappoport-Albert,
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15) "Der Ba'al Schem Tov zwischen Magie und Mystic", in: Die Geschichten vom Ba'al Schem Tov, Schivche ha- Bescht, Teil 1 Hebraisch mit deutscher Ubersetzung (ed. K. E. Grozinger),
.50 16) "R. Nathan Adler and the Frankfurt Pietists; Pietist Groups in Eastern and
17) "Jewish Studies in
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18) " From Earthly
. 19) "Not "all" is in the Hands of Heaven: Eschatology and Kabbalah" in: Eschatology in the Bible and in the Jewish and Christian Tradition (ed. H. Reventlow), The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series 243, Sheffield and Bath, (1997): 49-61
20) "R. Aaron Halevi"; "R Israel Baal Shem Tov", "Edel", "Shneur Zalman of Liadi" and various other articles on Hasidism in: The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, in the series: World Religions (ed.), J. Bowker, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997
21) "Hasidism", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (ed. E. Craig),
.22) "The Lubavich Messianic Resurgence: The Historical and Mystical Background 1939-1996", Toward the Millennium – Messianic Expectations from the Bible to Waco (eds. P. Schafer and M. Cohen),
23) "The "Merkavah" Tradition and the Emergence of Jewish Mysticism"; From Temple to "Merkavah", from "Hekhal" to "Hekhalot" from Priestly Opposition to Gazing upon the "Merkavah",in: Sino-Judaica, Jews and Chinese in Historical Dialogue, (ed. A. Oppenheimer) Tel Aviv:
24) "The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism" [A Critical Review on A. Green, Keter-The Crown of God], The Journal of Religion, vol. 79, n.3 (July 1999): 501-503
25) "The world of Jewish Mysticism: G. Scholem and Kabbalah" (translated to Japanese by Prof. June Ikeda) Namal Port: Journal of the Japanese-Jewish Study Association in Kobe,
26) "The Priestly Nature of the Mystical Heritage in "Heykalot literature",
Ecriture et experience et mystiques dans les religions du Livre, in: Etudes sur le Judaism Medieval (eds. P. B. Fenton and R. Goetschel),
27) "Breaking the Boundaries of Time and Space in Kabbalistic Apocalypticism", Apocalyptic Time (ed. A. I. Baumgarten),
28) "Slowa Panskie" Jacuba Franka: Mistyczna automitografia – nihilism religijny I wizja wolnosci mesjanskiej jako urzeczywistnienie mitu I metafory", in: Duchowosc Zydowska W Polsce, Materialy Z Miedzynarodowej Konferencji Dedykowanej Pameci Profesora Chone Shmeruka,
29) " Il Tempio:
30) "The
31) "Present but Absent", Still Life" and "A Pretty Maiden who has No Eyes": On the presence and absence of women in the Hebrew Language, in Jewish Culture and in Israeli life", Streams into the Sea: Studies in Jewish Culture and it Context, Dedicated to Felix Posen (eds. E. Reiner and R. Livneh-Freudenthal), Tel Aviv:
32) "Enoch Son of Jared and the Solar Calendar of the Priesthood in
33) "A Window though shall make to the ark": Language Memory and Culture as a Bridge between the Secular Reader and the Jewish "library", Jewish Identity in Modern Israel (eds.
34) "Judaism and Democracy – The Private Domain and Public Responsibility", Jewis Identity in Modern Israe, (eds.
35) "Jewish Heritage-Unity of Opposites: Communal Sacred Tradition, Individual Freedom and Mystical Inspiration", First International conference on Japanese Civilization and the international Community: Toward Global Harmony and Understanding: A Dialogue between Jewish and Shinto Cultures on the contribution they can make to the Twenty First Century,
36) "Exile
37) "Blessed
38) "Ancient Jewish Calendars", Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, vol. 5 (2005): 293-302
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