Prof. Roman Katsman
Faculty member of the Israel Literature Department, Bar-Ilan University. Specializes in Hebrew and Russian literature, literary anthropology, the study of mythopoesis, and other fields.
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Prof. Shlomy Mualem
Faculty member of the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University. His research deals with comparative and interdisciplinary research in the dynamic space of literature and philosophy, literature and mysticism, theopoetics and Kabbalah, and aesthetics and philosophy in the East and the West.
Director of the Bar Ilan Forum for the Study of Religion, in constant collaboration with Prof. Hanoch Ben Pazi.
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Prof. Ithamar Theodor
Researcher of Hinduism, emphasizing the Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavata Purana, and Gandhi's studies. A graduate of the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University, a Fellow of Clear Hall at Cambridge University, taught for several years at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Theodore heads the Department of Mysticism and Spirituality at Safed Academic College and teaches at Bar Ilan University, where he teaches in a multidisciplinary bachelor's degree program in humanities.
His publications include two monographs and six edited books.
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Dr. Gideon Elazar
Lecturer in the Asia track in the Bar Ilan multidisciplinary department and researcher in the R&D East at Ariel University.
Research areas: anthropology of religion, religious and ethnic identity, and holy places in China and Israel.
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Dr. Dan Jaffé
Lecturer in the Department of Basic Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University. Area of expertise: Early Christianity, relations between Jews and Christians in antiquity, and Rabbinic Judaism.
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Dr. Khalid Abu Ras
Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Kaye Academic College of Education and in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. He serves as a research fellow in the post-doctoral program at the David Hartman Center.
Research areas: Sufism – the spiritual and mystical stream in Islam, interfaith dialogue in the Middle Ages, interactions between Judaism and Islam.
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Prof. Hizky Shoham
He teaches in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University and is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Recently, together with his colleagues from the Department of Sociology, Prof. Ilana Silber, Prof. Danny Kaplan, and Prof. Uri Schwartz, he founded the Center for Cultural Sociology, affiliated with the parallel center at Yale University.
His research focuses on the anthropological history and cultural sociology of Israeli society, as well as on cultural theory. Among his publications are the book "Mordecai is Riding a Horse: Purim Celebrations in Tel-Aviv (1908-1936) and The Building of a New Nation" (Bar Ilan University Press, 2013) and "Israel Celebrates: Festivals and Civic Culture in Israel" (Brill, 2017) – which explored the meanings that the broader Israeli public finds in Jewish holidays and life rituals, focusing on the intersections between religion, nationalism, and consumer culture. Other publications have dealt with the history of childhood, family, and emotions and the theory of time, space, culture, and religion. His book "Today You Become a Person: Initiation Rituals and Time in Modern Jewish Cultures" (working title) won the Goldberg Prize and is forthcoming with the Open University Press.
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Prof. Hanoch Ben Pazi
A researcher specializing in philosophy and modern Jewish thought, focusing on dialogical philosophy and the ethics of responsibility. His notable areas of expertise include the philosophy of religions, interfaith theology, and the relationship between Judaism and world religions. He is a board member of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions.
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Prof. Joshua Alcoloumbre
Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar-Ilan University (where he served as department head from 2009 to 2013). He holds a Master's in Classical Studies and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University in Paris. His research focuses on the interactions between Judaism and Hellenism throughout history. He has published two books and numerous articles in medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, as well as in modern French poetry, from Stéphane Mallarmé to Claude Vigée. His current research focuses on the works of the Maharal of Prague and their influence on contemporary French-Jewish thought. He is an associate editor of the journal Perspectives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Dr. Yaron Catane
Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University
Postdoctoral research, Brigham Young University (BYU), Utah, USA
Researcher in the field of religion and law.
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Prof. Michael Ehrlich
Serves as a senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on religious conversions in the Middle East during the medieval period. His book "The Islamization of the Holy Land 634-1800" was published in 2021.
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Dr. Michal Zelcer-Lavid
Dr. Michal Zelcer-Lavid, Head of the Asian Studies track in the Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Bar-Ilan University. Research areas: Modern China, ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in Asia, Islam in Western China and Central Asia, minorities in China, and West-East Asian relations.
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Dr. Miriam Feldmann-Kaye
Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and holds a Visiting Professorship at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the Editor-in-Chief of a new Encyclopedia of Jewish Theology from the University of St Andrews. Dr. Feldmann Kaye is a recipient of the University of Cambridge Award for Theological Studies. Her monograph on Jewish Philosophy in the Post-Modern Era was published in 2019. Her co-edited volume with Professor Ben-Pazi examining the philosophical thought of Rabbi Shagar was recently released. The Times of Israel distinguished her among 70 leading British contributors to the intellectual spirit of modern Israel.
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Prof. Avi Elqayam
Professor Avi Elqayam is the Head of the Shlomo Moussaieff Center for Kabbalah Research at Bar-Ilan University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Da'at journal.
His research focuses on medieval Kabbalah, Lurianic Kabbalah and Rabbi Israel Sarug's Kabbalistic interpretations, as well as Sabbatian messianism and its connections to Islam. His scholarly contributions include investigations into topics such as "The Secret of the Rose" in Zoharic literature and the poetics of Rabbi Isaac Luria (Ha'ari) according to Sarug's interpretations. Professor Elqayam specializes in linguistic pragmatics and translation, exemplified by his work translating Sabbatian poetry from Ladino and significant Islamic mystical texts such as Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali's "The Niche of Lights" into contemporary Hebrew.
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Professor Ephraim Meir
Professor Ephraim Meir is Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University, where he served as Head of the Department of Jewish Philosophy.
His research focuses on modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy, with emphasis on Jewish existentialism, Levinas's thought, and Holocaust theology. In his book "Dialogical Thought and Identity," he developed the concept that dialogue constitutes an integral element within identity formation. His work "Jewish Dialogical Thought and Interreligious Theology" contributes to a new theological approach that promotes interreligious connections through categories of encounter and active dialogue.
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Dr. Yaakov Mascetti
Dr. Yaakov Mascetti is a Senior Lecturer serving as Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar-Ilan University.
Dr. Mascetti's research focuses on metaphysical poetry, early modern conceptions of vision and cognition, the role of the occult in the emergence of modernity, and definitions of femininity in early modern English literature. He has authored and published his first book on changes in the perception of the word in early modernity, addressing the influence of classical rhetoric and the Protestant Reformation on 17th century English poetry. He is currently editing a volume on Italian Judaism during the Renaissance, following an international conference that he organized with scholars from Italy and the United States on this subject, which took place in Jerusalem in January 2020.
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Professor Michal Ben-Horin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Bar-Ilan University.
She joined the Department of Comparative Literature in 2014 and specializes in modern German literature, interdisciplinary connections between music and literature, and theories of memory and Holocaust representation in Jewish and German literature.
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