- Personal
- Education
- Academic Appointments
- Teaching Experience
- Administrative Activities
- Research Fields
- Scholarships and Awards
- Membership on Boards and Editorial Boards
- Membership in Professional Societies
- Supervision of Higher Degrees
- List of Publications
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Professional Education
1997 |
Ph.D., Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation: The Concept of Death in the ‘Book of Life’ (Sefer ha-Hayyim) by Rabbi Shimon Frankfurt; Advisors: Profs. Zeev Gries, Moshe Idel, and Yosef Kaplan |
1990 | M.A.
(summa cum laude), Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thesis: Death in the Thought of the Kabbalist Rabbi Naftali Hakohen Katz; Advisor :Prof. Zeev Gries |
1985 | B.A., Philosophy and Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Academic Appointments at the Open University of Israel
2015- | Head, Judaic Studies, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
2015- | Associate Professor |
2005-2008 | Head, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
2003- 2015 | Senior Lecturer |
2001-2003 | Candidate for Senior Academic Faculty |
Other Academic Appointments |
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2000-2001 | Research Fellow, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University |
1998-2000 | Teaching Fellow, Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa |
1997-1998 | Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University |
1988-1997 | Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Teaching Experience
2005 | Adjunct
Senior Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University Course: Encounters with the Dead Jewish Culture |
2000-2001 | Lecturer,
Ben-Gurion University. Courses: Death in Medieval Jewish Society: The Encounter between Thought and History |
1998-2000 | Lecturer,
University of Haifa Courses: Readings in the Zohar; Religion and Society in the Thought of Hasidei Ashkenaz; Introduction to Jewish Mysticism; Death in Jewish Thought and Custom; The Messianic Idea in Judaism (with Prof. Kellner) |
1996-1997, 2000 | Lecturer,
Technion: Department of Humanities Courses: Introduction to Kabbalah; Modern Jewish Thought |
1999 | Lecturer,
School for Overseas Students, Ben-Gurion University Course: Introduction to Jewish Mysticism |
1988–1998 | Teaching
Assistant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Courses: Death in Thought and Custom; The Genre of Jewish Ethical Wills; Kabbalah, Practical Kabbalah, and Sabbatianism; Chapters in Philosophical Ethical Literature; The Treatise Shnei Luhot ha-Berit; Bibliographical Guidance in Jewish Thought; Exercise for Introduction to Jewish Thought; Sefer Hasidim, Hovot ha- Levavot Emunot ve-De’ot (Reading course) |
1999 |
Lecturer,
Yezreel Valley College. Course: The Mystical Experience in Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
Administrative Activities
1996-1997 | Academic Coordinator, Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies; World Union of Jewish Studies |
Research Fields
- Jewish mysticism
- Magic
- Jewish ethical literature
- Jewish attitudes toward death
- Cemeteries
- Jewish ritual
- History of the book
- Egodocuments
Scholarships and Awards
2005 | Scholarship of the Halpern Center, Bar-Ilan University |
2003-2004 | Research grant, The Ben-Zvi Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
2000 | Post-doctoral scholarship, The Board of Higher Education, Ben-Gurion University |
1999 | Warburg Prize, Hebrew University |
1997 | Fellowship, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University |
1997 | Scholarship, Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University |
1996 | Abraham Isaac Katch Award to an outstanding doctoral student: Hebrew University |
1995 | Scholarship, Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University |
1995 | Scholarship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture |
1994 | Yaniv Foundation Scholarship, Tel-Aviv University |
1994 | Niselevich Prize: Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University |
1993 | Gerstenfeld Prize: The Center for the Study of Dutch Jewry, Hebrew University |
1992-1995 | Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in the Humanities, The Council for Higher Education |
Membership on Boards and Editorial Boards
2001- | Editor, Pe’amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry, Ben-Zvi Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
2001- | Member of the editorial board, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, Leiden: Brill |
2013- | Member of the editorial board, 'Critcal Mass', Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish & Israeli Literature & Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
2013-2014 | Acting Chairman, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People |
2008- | Board member, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People |
2007- | Board member, The Israeli Historical Society |
1996-1997 | Editorial Secretary, Jewish Studies, World Union for Jewish Studies |
1986-1990 | Editorial Secretary, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Membership in Professional Societies
- Israeli Historical Society (Board Member)
- World Union for Jewish Studies
- American Association for Jewish Studies
- European Association for Jewish Studies
- American Academy of Religion
Supervision of Higher Degrees
2014- |
Tali Asher, Tel Aviv University (with Prof. Shalom Ratzabi) Ph.D. Thesis – Libraries as cultural agents in Israel |
2013- |
Julia Beshadsky Lebovich, University of Haifa (with Dr. Zur Shalev) Ph.D. Thesis – Historiography and time in the Italian Renaissance |
2011-2013 |
Yair Adiel,
Hebrew University (with Prof. Hanan Hever) Ph.D. Thesis - The post-structural critique of language and linguistics |
2008-2015 |
Hamawi,
Tel-Aviv University (with Prof. GidiBohak) Ph.D. Thesis - Magic in the Writings of R. Abraham Hamoi |
2005-2009 |
Orit
Ramon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (with Prof. Israel Yuval) Ph.D. Thesis - The order of the world as reflected in ‘Or Hadash’ - Maharal’s commentary on the Book of Esther |
2004 |
Sachi Ogimoto,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School for Overseas Students M.A. Thesis - Sefer Or Zaru’a by R. David Ben Yehudah he-Hasid |
List of Publications
Edited Books
- A Detailed Index of The Wisdom of the Zohar by Isaiah Tishby and Y. F. Lachower. Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2015 (forthcoming, 350 pages, Hebrew).
- Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs in Medieval Ashkenaz and later Communities. eds. Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Avriel Bar-Levav, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, 379 pages.
- The Past and Beyond it: Festschrift for Elazar Weinrib, eds. Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom and Avriel Bar-Levav. Raanana: The Open University Press, 2006. 712 pages, Hebrew.
- Peace and War in Jewish Culture.Jerusalem: Zalman Sahzar Center, 2006. 363 pages, Hebrew.
Edited Open University Books
- Avriel Bar-Levav, Ron Margolin, Shmuel Feiner (eds.), Secularization in Jewish Culture, vol. 1, 2, Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press, 2012.
- Avriel Bar-Levav (ed.), Secularization in Jewish Culture: A Reader, Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press, 2012. 490 pages.
Articles in Refereed Journals
- The Religious Order of Jewish Books: Structuring Hebrew Knowledge in Amsterdam. Studia Rosenthaliana 42 (2012), forthcoming.
- a. Steinschneider in Memoirs. Pe'amim 129 (2012): 225-238 (Hebrew).
b. A Living Citizen in a World of Dead Letters: Steinschneider Remembered. In Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal, editors (with the collaboration of Rachel Heuberger), Studies onSteinschneider. Moritz Steinschneider and the Emergence the Science of Judaism in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Leiden: Brill 2012: 339-348. - What Could be Done with Four Hundred Books? A Proposal for a Jewish Library, Krakow 1571. Zmanim 112 (2010): 42-49.
- On the Absence of a Book from a Library: Gershom Scholem and the Shulhan Arukh. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 6 (2009): 71-73.
- Magic in Jewish Ethical Literature (Hebrew). Tarbiz 72 (2003): 389-414.
- a. Another Place: The Cemetery in Jewish Culture (Hebrew). Pe'amim 98-99 (2003): 5-38.
b. We Are Where We Are Not: The Cemetery in Jewish Culture. Jewish Studies 41 (2002):15-46. - Ritualisation of Jewish Life and Death in the Early Modern Period. Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 47 (2002): 69-82.
- Death and the (Blurred) Boundaries of Magic: Strategies of Coexistence. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 7 (2002): 51-64.
- Dying by the Book: Jewish Books for the Sick and the Dying, and the Ritualization of Death in the Early Modern Period (Hebrew). Zmanim 73 (2000): 71-78.
- Games of Death in Jewish Books for the Sick and the Dying. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 5 (2000): 11-34.
- Books for the Sick and the Dying in Jewish Conduct Literature (Hebrew). Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 14 (1998): 341-391.
- Rabbi Aaron Berakhiah of Modena and
Rabbi Naftali Hakohen Katz: Founding Fathers of Books for the Sick and the Dying (Hebrew). Asufot 9 (1995): 189-233.
Articles and Chapters in Open University Books
- Introduction: Two Personal Stories about Secularization (with editors). In Secularization in Jewish Culture, eds. Avriel Bar-Levav, Ron Margolin and Shmuel Feiner, Raanana: The Open University of Israel, 2012: 13-68 (Hebrew).
- The Complete Return to Hebrew. Ibid.: 857-876.
- a. Secularization and the Jews in Islamic Countries. Ibid.: 329-386.
b. Secularization and the Jews in Islamic Countries. In Secularism and Secularization: Interdisciplinary Studies, ed. Yochi Fischer, Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute 2015 (forthcoming)Articles and Chapters in Refereed Books
- Ausdrucksformen jüdischer Religiosität in Deutschland zu Beginn der Neuzeit. In Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum, Bd. IV, 1650-1750, eds. Kaspar von Greyerz und Anne Conrad, Paderborn: Fredinand Schöningh, 2012: 411-464.
- Jewish Attitudes towards Death. In Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs in Medieval Ashkenaz and later Communities, eds. Stefan C. Reif, Andreas Lehnardt and Avriel Bar-Levav, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014:3-15.
- Between the World of the Texts and the World of the Readers. In Chava Turniansky Jubilee Volume, Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2013: 95-122 (Hebrew).
- The Sacred Space of the Portable Homeland: An Archeology of Unseen Libraries in Jewish Culture from the Medieval Period to the Internet. In Ut videant et Contingant: Essays on Pilgrimage and Sacred Space in Honour of Ora Limor, eds. Yitzhak Hen and Iris Shagrir, Raanana: Open University Press. 2011: 297-320 (Hebrew).
- Food for Thought. Yosef Da'at: Studies in Modern Jewish History in Honor of Yosef Salmon, ed. Jossi Goldstein, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2010: 277-288 (Hebrew).
- a. Amsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters. In Studies in Dutch Jewry, ed. Yosef Kaplan. Jerusalem: Center for Research on Dutch Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008: 225-237.
b. Between Library Awareness and the Jewish Republic of Letters. In Libraries and Book Collections, eds. Yosef Kaplan and Moshe Sluhovsky. Jerusalem: Zalman Sahzar Center for Jewish History, 2006: 201-224 (Hebrew). - Cercles messianiques: les mouvements messianiques des Juifs d’Orient. In Le monde sépharade, ed. Shmuel Trigano. Paris: Le Seuil, 2006: 171-190.
- Death and Mourning among Oriental Jewry. In Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Life Cycle, ed. Shalom Sabar, series ed. Haim Saadoun. Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2006: 281-323 (Hebrew).
- Story, Ritual and Metaphor: Comprehending the day of Death as a Spiritual Exercise and the internal War in Jewish Ethical Literature. In Peace and War in Jewish Culture, ed. Avriel Bar-Levav. Jerusalem: Zalman Sahzar Center for Jewish History, 2006: 145-163(Hebrew).
- Reading Grave Inscriptions and Looking at the Sky: Some Aspects of Magic and Memory in Jewish Culture. In Memoria: Wege jüdischen Erinnerns: Festschrift für Michael Brocke, eds. Birgit Klein and Christiane E. Müler, Berlin 2005: 41-52.
- The Bridge to the Human: The Myth of Tantalus in the Story of the Marriage of a Man and Demon. In The Cradle of Creativity: Shlomo Giora Shoham Jubilee Volume, ed. Chemi Bin-Nun. Tel Aviv 2004:199-206 (Hebrew).
- Leon Modena and the Invention of the Jewish Death Tradition. In The Lion Shall Roar: Leon Modena and His World, ed. David Malkiel. Jerusalem: Magnes, 2003: 85-102.
- a. Jewish Ethical Wills as Egodocoments. In The Past and Beyond it: Festschrift for Elazar Weinrib, eds. Amir Horowitz, Ora Limor, Ram Ben-Shalom and Avriel Bar-Levav. Raanana: The Open University Press, 2006: 263-282 (Hebrew).
b. 'When I was Alive': Jewish Ethical Wills as Egodocoments. In Egodocuments and History: Autobiographical Writing in its Social Context since the Middle Ages, ed. Rudolf Dekker, Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam and Hilversum Verloren, 2002: 45-59.
c. „Als ich noch lebte“: Jüdische ethische Testamente als Egodokumente (German). Perspektivenwechsel: Ego-Dokumente. Selbst- und Fremddarstellungen frühneuzeitlicher Juden, Birgit E. Klein / Rotraud Ries (Hgg.) / Désirée Schostak (Red.). Berlin 2011 (minima judaica; 9): 27-46. - Ritualization of Death and Life: The Ethical Will of Rabbi Naphtali Ha-Kohen Katz. In Judaism in Practice, ed. Lawrence Fine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001: 155–167.
- Pinchas Hakohen Peli: A Biography. In Rabbi Professor Peli Memorial Volume,ed. Aviv Melzer. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press, 1998: 157–165 (Hebrew).
- Bibliography of Pinchas Hakohen Peli. Ibid: 166–214.
Encyclopedia Entries
Encyclopedia of the Bible and is Reception, eds. Hans-Josef Klauck, Bernard McGinn et al., Berlin: De Gruyter 2012 (forthcoming). Entry: Burial in Medieval and Modern Judaism
Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, ed. Norman Stillman,
Leidn: Brill 2010. Entry: Mysticism and Kabbalah
(with Moshe Idel). Vol. III :
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert, New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2007. Entries: Amulets and Talismans (45-46), Death and
the Dying (396-399), Magic (1113-1114).
Book Reviews
Review of: Oren Soffer, There Is No Place for Pilpul! Hatzefira Journal and the Modernization of Sociopolitical Discourse. In Zion 77 (2012): 420-425.
Review of “The Library of Gershom Scholem on Jewish Mysticism: Catalogue”. Jewish Studies 39 (1999): 201–209.
Others
- Thoughts on the Accessibility of Texts and Books after the Steinsaltz Talmud Edition. Akademot 26 (2011): 105-115 (Hebrew). Der Name Gottes und seine Zhal. Kalonymos: Beiträge zur deutsch-jüdischen Geschichte aus dem Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institute, 7 (2004), 7.
- Jewish rituals for the sick and dying. Sh’ma, 34/603 (September 2003), 11.
- The Sabbath and the other (2001). In M. Gerzy & B. Zimmerman (eds.), The Seventh Day: Israeli Scholars and Artists write about their Sabbath. Tel- Aviv: Miskal, 2001, 149-161 (Hebrew).
Translations
- Translation from English into Hebrew of David Halivni (1996). The Book and the Sword: a Life of Learning in the Shadow of Death. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Hebrew translation published by Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999.
- Translation from English into Hebrew: Moshe Idel (1993). Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Hebrew translation published by Schocken, 1993.
Work in Progress
Introduction to
Jewish Mysticism, with Moshe Idel, Raanana: Open University Press (Hebrew, in progress).
Newspaper articles (selected)
- On Michael Schwartz. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 23 December 2011.
- Two Translators of Josephus' Wars of the Jews. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 14 May 2010.
- Dying for our Life. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 18 December 2009.
- Prince Charming of Hebrew in Print: a Review of Zeev Gries’s The Book as an Agent of Change 1700-1900, Haaretz Books, 11 September 2002; English translation: Haaretz English Edition, 15 September 2002.
- Accepting Demons. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 1 October 2001 (Hebrew).
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Breslov Hasidism: on David Assaf’s Book. (Hebrew). Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 31 March 2000 (Hebrew). English translation: Haaretz English Edition, 24 March 2000.
- The Strength of Quiet Knowledge: on the Occasion of Shmuel Werses’ Eighty-fifth Birthday. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 19 May 2000 (Hebrew).
- The Cry of the Library: on the Catalogue of the Gershom Scholem Library. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 25 September 1999 (Hebrew).
- The Nation and its Library. Haaretz: Literary Supplement, 3 March 1996 (Hebrew).
Lectures (selected)
2015 |
The Meaning of order: Siftei Yeshenim (Amsterdam 1680), the first printed Hebrew |
2014 |
Crossing Bibliographical Borders: Shabtai Meshorer Bas and the European Bibliographic |
2013 |
The world of texts and the world of the readers: Sefer Hahayyim (Amsterdam, 1703), International Colloquium: On men and women reading Yiddish: Between manuscript and print, University of Amsterdam |
2012 |
Library awareness in Jewish culture: Models of comprehending libraries since the medieval period. International Conference: Libraries and Cultural Memory, Pázmány Péter Catholich University, Budapest. |
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Jewish Tombstones of Würzburg. Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva. |
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Customs of Death in Books and in Reality. minhagim: custom andpractice in jewish life, International Conference, Tel Aviv University. |
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Book Lists from the Genizah as a Source for Intellectual History. Midrash in Genizah Communities, The University of Haifa. |
2011 |
Putting Jewish Books in Order: 11th International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, The Hebrew University. |
2010 |
Library Awareness in the Jewish Enlightenment. The Library of the Haskalah:: The Modern Jewish Book Market, its Creators and its Readers, Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, Tel Aviv University |
2009 |
Invisible Libraries in Jewish Culture. Magnificent Books and Impressive Texts: Prolegomena to a Jewish Book History, Colloquium, University of Amsterdam |
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Putting Jewish Book in Order. Reading across Cultures: the Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period, Workshop, Harvard University |
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Paratexts in the Works of Maharal. Maharal of Prague: Four Hundred Years since his Death, International Conference, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute |
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Library Awareness in the National Library: Bibliography, Ideology, and Zionism. The 15th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem |
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Between the Living and the Dead. The Jewish Cemetery in Yeghegis and Armenian Hebrew inscriptions, International symposium, Armenia |
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The Aura of Books in Jewish Culture. 2 lectures at the Centre d'Études Juives, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH), Paris |
2008 |
The Antwerp Moment (Concluding Panel). The Jewish Book in a Christian World, International Conference, University of Antwerp |
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The Wisdom of the Zohar. Kabbalah and Modernity, International conference, University of Amstrdam |
2007 |
Steinschneider and Modern Hebrew. Bibliographie und Kulturtransfer, International conference, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. |
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From Ethical Wills to Blogs (Hebrew, with Yoav Yair). Conference of the Chase Center, The Open University of Israel |
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Jewish Libraries of Memory. The Concept of Memory in Jewish and East Asian Cultures, University of Haifa |
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Charity and Death. Charity and Piety in the Middle East in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Continuity and Transformation. International Conference, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University |
2006 |
Doing Things in the Right Time in Hebrew Nineteenth Century Autobiographies. Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: The Rise of Autobiographical Writing since 1750, International Conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam |
2005 |
When a Rabbi Writes an Autobiography: Portrayal of the Self in the work of Rabbi Bension Avraham Koenka. Portrayal of the Self, International Conference , University of Groningen |
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Death, People and Books. North American Hevra Kadisha Conference, New York |
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Death of Moses (Hebrew). Moses in Jewish Culture, Bar-Ilan University |
2004 |
Amsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters. 10th International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands, The Hebrew University |
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Death and Culture (Hebrew). Haim Schwartzbaum Memorial Lecture in Jewish and Arabic Folklore, Ben-Gurion University |
2003 |
Expressions of Jewish Religiosity: The Case of Germany in the Early Modern Period (Hebrew). Interuniversity Conference of the Depts. of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion Univ. |
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Magic and Memory in Jewish Culture (Hebrew). 22nd Interuniversity Conference on the Study of Folklore, Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
2002 |
Rabbi Moshe Frankfurt: Printer-Scholar in Amsterdam, and the Inception of the Hebrew Republic of Letters. European Association for Jewish Studies VII Congress, Amsterdam |
2001 |
Internalizing the Impossible to Grasp: Remembering the Day of Death (Hebrew). 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem |
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The Intercultural Encounter in the Jewish Cemetery (Hebrew). 20th University Conference on Folklore, Ben-Gurion University |
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Dialogues in the Jewish Cemetery. Art in Dialogue Colloquium, Witten-Herdeke Universität, Germany |
2000 |
The Cemetery in Medieval Jewish Thought. Jüdische Sepulkrakultur und Grabsteinepigraphik, Steinheim Institute für Deutsche-Jüdische Geschichte Kolloquium, Universität Duisberg |
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The Power of Words: Rabbi Naftali Hakohen Katz of Frankfurt: Between Halakha and Magic. Fach Jüdische Studien, Gerhard Mercator Universität, Duisberg |
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Jewish Ethical Wills as Egodocuments. Egodocuments, Identity and History, International Conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam |
2000 |
Daily Death of European Jews in the Early Modern Period. International Conference, Ben-Gurion University |
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The Bookshelf of a Jewish Printer in the Early Modern Period: Rabbi Moshe Frankfurt and the Works He Chose to Print (Hebrew). Libraries and Book Collections, Annual Conference of the Israel Historical Society, Jerusalem |
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In Search for the Prince of the Torah; Magic, Knowledge, and Memory (Hebrew). Secret Knowledge, Secret Forces: Magic, Demonology, and the Occult in Jewish Thought and Life, International Conference, Ben-Gurion University, Tel-Aviv University, and Shazar Institute, Jerusalem |
1999 |
Whom Do the Demons Represent? (Hebrew). Conference of the Wolfson Chair for Jewish Thought, University of Haifa |
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Magic and the Shaping of the Religious Personality in Jewish Ethical Literature. (Hebrew) |
1998 |
The Methodology of the Study of Jewish Attitudes towards Death. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Orlando, Florida |
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Healing the Soul before Dying: The Case of Jewish Death Rituals in the Early Modern Period. Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion, Orlando, Florida |
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Love, Fear, and Death in Jewish Tradition. The Historicity of Emotions, International Conference, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
1997 |
The Concept of Death in Sefer Hasidim. 29th Annual Conference of the American Association for Jewish Studies, Boston |
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Formation and Transformation of Jewish Rituals in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. |
1995 |
Death and Magical Practices. Magic and Magic in Judaism, International Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv University |
1993 |
The Wills of the Horwitz Family (Hebrew). 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
1989 |
Rabbi Naftali Hakohen Katz and the Hayyun Polemic (Hebrew). Interuniversity Conference of the Departments of Jewish Thought, Open University, Tel-Aviv |