Moshe Idel

Moshe Idel, 2008

Moshe Idel (* 19th January 1947 in Targu Neamt , Romania) is an Israeli historian and philosopher with the work focusing on Jewish Thought and Kabbalah . He is a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Life

Idel moved to Israel in 1963 and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1975 to 2009. Idel had visiting professorships a. a. at UCLA , Yale University , Harvard University , Princeton University , the University of Pennsylvania and the Collège de France .

In 1999 Idel received the Israel Prize , the EMET Prize was awarded to him in 2002, and since 2006 he has been a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences . In the 2009/2010 academic year, he taught at the newly established Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at New York University .

Fonts (selection)

author

• Kabbalah: New Perspectives , New Haven [u. a.]: Yale Univ. Pr., 1988.
• The mystical experience in Abraham Abulafia , Albany, NY: State Univ. of New York Pr., 1988, German Abraham Abulafia and the mystical experience , Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 1994.
• Golem: Jewish magical and mystical traditions on the artificial anthropoid , Albany, NY: State Univ. of New York Pr., 1990, German Der Golem: Jewish magical and mystical traditions of the artificial anthropoid , Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag, 2007.
• Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic , Albany: State University of New York Press 1995, ISBN 0791417344 .
• Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation , New Haven [u. a.]: Yale UP 2002, foreword by Harold Bloom
• Kabbalah and eros , New Haven [u. a.]: Yale Univ. Press, 2005, German Kabbalah and Eros , Frankfurt am Main; Leipzig: Verlag der Weltreligionen, 2009.
• Ascensions on high in Jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, ladders , Budapest [u. a.]: Central European Univ. Press, 2005.
• Enchanted chains: techniques and rituals in Jewish mysticism , Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2005.
• Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism , London [u. a.]: Continuum, 2007.
• Old worlds, new images - Jewish mysticism and the thoughts of the 20th century . Translated from the English by Eva-Maria Thimme. Jewish publishing house in Suhrkamp Verlag. Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-633-54259-8 .

editor

• (with Anthony Grafton ): The Magus: its origins and its history in different cultures , Berlin: Akademie-Verl., 2001.

Preface

• Joshua Trachtenberg : Jewish magic and superstition: a study in folk religion , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
• Andrei Oișteanu : Inventing the Jew: antisemitic stereotypes in Romanian and other Central East-European cultures , Lincoln [u. a.]: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Secondary literature

• Bibliography of the writings of Professor Moshe Idel: a special volume issued on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday / [ed. and annot. by Daniel Abrams], Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 1997.

proof

1. ↑ http://sites.huji.ac.il/htbin/people/newsegele/179989, accessed December 6, 2009
2. ↑ http://en.emetprize.org/laureates/humanities/jewish-philosophy/prof-moshe-idel/ accessed on November 14, 2017
3. ↑ http://www.nyutikvah.org/fellows/moshe_idel.html accessed December 6, 2009