Dr. Hillel Feuerstein
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Research Associate
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Academic positions
2023-2026: PhD-Fellow, Minerva Stiftung, The Institute of Jewish Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
2020-2026: PhD, the Department of Jewish Philosophy (Jewish Thought and Kabbalah), Ph. D. Thesis: 'Poetics of Creation: Study and Editions of Zoharic Writing on Genesis', Bar-Ilan University.
2017-2019: MA (Magna Cum Laude) in Jewish Thought, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Key aspects of activity
- Kabbalah
- The Book of Splendor (Zohar)
- Manuscript Studies
Publications
Sefer ha-Ne‘elam by R. Eleazar of Worms An Annotated Critical Edition with an Introduction, (Los-Angeles: Cherub Press, 2024) Hebrew; 400 pages.
2026: “Zoharic Proverb: A One Line Dialouge,” Open Library of Humanities 12(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.25023.
2024: “Absence as Presence: Semiotic Hermeneutics of the Absent Letters in the Writings of the German Pietists,” Journal of Religion 104.4 (2024): 452-478;.
2022: “Commentary on the Passover Haggada from the Circle of Sefer ha-Temuna: Study and Edition,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 54 (2022): 115-254 [Hebrew].
2021: “Fixity and Fluidity in the Genre of Kabbalistic Secrets: A Study on the Textual History of The Secret of the Great Sabbath of R. Moses de-Leon,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 52 (2021) :305-324 [Hebrew].
2019: “The Lame Fire of Hephaestus and the Sparks of the Blacksmith in Idra Zuta,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 45 (2019): 157-172 [Hebrew].