Department of Jewish Thought
Subject: The Kabbalist's Craft: A History of Early Modern Kabbalistic Knowledge.
Supervisor: Prof. Jonathan Garb.
Abstract: In my dissertation, I plan to discuss the ways in which sixteenth-century kabbalistic knowledge was organized in the Mediterranean by focusing on scholarly (lamdanut) and encyclopedic writings. The study will concentrate on the scholarly methods and practices of the central kabbalists of this period, who, within their compositions, tackled a variety of diverse kabbalistic opinions and methods and generally arbitrated between them. This mapping and discussion will provide an in-depth look at Jewish learning culture in a formative period and the textual practices used by these erudite scholars.
Graduate of the Honors Program for Outstanding MA Students, 2016–2018