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Jonathan Dauber

Jonathan
V.
Dauber

Director of Ph.D. Program of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Associate Professor of Jewish Mysticism

dauber@yu.edu

212-960-5400 x5577

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#537

BA, Brandeis University,

PhD, New York University,

Professor Jonathan Dauber holds a BA in Near Eastern and Judaic studies and history of ideas from Brandeis University and a PhD in Jewish mysticism from New York University. His areas of specialization are the various historical stages of Kabbalah as well as Eastern European Hasidism. Research interests include the emergence of Kabbalah as a literary tradition, the interplay of Kabbalah and Jewish philosophy, Jewish Messianism, and Jewish esotericism. He teaches courses covering the full range of the Jewish mystical tradition from late antiquity to the modern period at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies.  He is author of Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah (Brill, 2012) and Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) and is currently working on Sefer ha-Bahir: Translation and Commentary, to be published by Stanford University Press.

Jewish mysticism and Hasidism; interplay of Kabbalah and Jewish philosophy; Jewish messianism; Jewish esotericism

dauber@yu.edu

212-960-5400 x5577

Wilf campus - Belfer Hall
Room#537

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Fall 2022
Intro To Jewish Mysticism 
JPH 5350

Topics in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah                                                                                                                                JPH 6475

Spring 2021
Intro to Hasidic Thought
JPH 5360

Messianism in Kabbalah and Hasidism                                                                                                                                JPH 6760