PD Dr. Elke Morlok
Photo: Elke Morlok
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Academic positions
Since March 2026, TP 10 “Shekhinah: Spiritual Intermediality in Early Modern Kabbalah” (with Patrick B. Koch) as part of the DFG-FOR 5138 “Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Period”
2023–2026 DFG project “Kabbalah as a Transfer Paradigm between Judaism and Christianity,” subproject of SPP 2357 “Jewish Cultural Heritage,” Goethe University Frankfurt, Cluster B spokesperson
2022–2023 Visiting Professor of Jewish Religion in History and the Present at the Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr University Bochum
2022 Senior Fellowship at the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg
2021–2022 Lilli and Michael Sommerfreund Visiting Professorship at the Heidelberg College for Jewish Studies
2020–2021 Research Associate at the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourse at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
2017–2020 Postdoc at the LOEWE Research Center “Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Contexts” / Department of Jewish Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2017 Habilitation at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main “Haskalah and Kabbalah – Isaac ben Moshe Halevi Satanow (1732–1804)”
2016–2016 Lecturer at the University of Salzburg / Center for Jewish Cultural History
2013–2017 Research Assistant at the Chair of Jewish Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2013–2014 Lecturer at the Faculty of Protestant Theology / Institutum Judaicum, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
2010–2011 Lecturer at the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Basel
2007–2013 Research Researcher at the College of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg in the Department of “Jewish Philosophy and Intellectual History”
2007–2008 Researcher in the DFG project “Cultural Transfer in a New Style: The Renaissance Preacher Yehuda Moscato (ca. 1530–1590)” at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2000–2007 Ph.D. dissertation at the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under Moshe Idel on “Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla’s Hermeneutics”
1998–2000 Parental leave
1995–1998 M.A. in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Key aspects of activity
- Jewish mysticism
- Christian Kabbalah and Hebraism
- Philosophy of language
- Haskalah in Eastern and Western Europe
- Interreligious and intercultural exchange
- Gender issues (the feminine aspect of God)