Klaus Herrmann (Judaist)

Klaus Herrmann (born October 1, 1957 in Cologne ) is a German Judaist with a research focus on early Jewish mysticism (Hekhalot literature) and Reform Judaism. He has been working as an academic advisor at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 1994 .

Life

From 1976 on, Klaus Herrmann studied Protestant theology and Jewish studies at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. After completing his studies in theology (1984), he continued his Jewish studies in Berlin and Jerusalem and worked on various projects (especially on early Jewish mysticism under the direction of the Berlin Judaist Peter Schäfer ). In 1989 he received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin. phil. PhD. In 1993/94 he was a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1994 he has worked as an academic adviser at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin. From 1994 to 2003 he also worked as Managing Editor for the journal Jewish Studies Quarterly.

Klaus Herrmann is a member of the Association of Judaists in Germany and the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS).

Works

• Massekhet Hekhalot. Treatise from the Heavenly Palaces. Edition, translation and commentary, Tübingen 1994.
• (with Peter Schäfer) Translation of the Hekhalot literature, Volume I, Tübingen 1995.
• (with Joseph Dan) Studies in Jewish Manuscripts, Tübingen1998 [TSMJ 14].
• (with Margarete Schlüter and Giuseppe Veltri) Jewish Studies Between the Disciplines - Judaism between the disciplines. Papers in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Leiden 2003.
• Sefer Yezira. Book of Creation, Frankfurt a. M. 2008.
• (with Hans-Joachim Teichler and Verena Nägel) History and Oral History - Jewish life in Berlin using the example of the three subject areas: Jewish sports life in Berlin, Hanukkah and Christmas, Bar / Bat Mitzvah and the Jewish confirmation for boys and girls. A special issue on selected life history videos from the Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at the University of Southern California (USC), Berlin 2010.
• (with Ra'anan Boustan, Reimund Leicht, Annette Y. Reed and Giuseppe Veltri, and with the collaboration of Alex Ramos) Envisioning Judaism: Studies in Honor of Peter Schäfer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, Vol I and II, Tübingen 2013 .

Collaboration on publications that arose in connection with the project on early Jewish mysticism ("Hekhalot literature") at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin:

• Concordance on the Hekhalot literature, Vol. I-II, ed. v. P. Schäfer in collaboration with G. Reeg and with the assistance of K. Herrmann, C. Rohrbacher-Sticker, R. Otterbach and G. Weyer, Tübingen 1986 and 1988.
• Translation of the Hekhalot literature, Vol. II, ed. v. P. Schäfer in collaboration with H.-J. Becker, K. Herrmann, C. Rohrbacher-Sticker and S. Siebers, Tübingen 1987
• Translation of the Hekhalot literature, Vol. III, ed. v. P. Schäfer in collaboration with H.-J. Becker, K. Herrmann, L. Renner, C. Rohrbacher-Sticker and S. Siebers, Tübingen 1989.
• Translation of the Hekhalot Literature, Vol. IV, ed. v. P. Schäfer in collaboration with K. Herrmann, L. Renner, C. Rohrbacher-Sticker and S. Siebers, Tübingen 1987–91.

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Herrmann in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Klaus Herrmann - website of the Free University of Berlin