Research Fields

• Modern Kabbalah,
• Modern Mussar,
• Psychology of Religion
• Comparative Mysticism

About

Jonathan Garb holds the Gershom Scholem Chair in Kabbalah, and lectures, beisdes his own department, in the department of Religious Studies.

He has lectured and researched, amongst other centers, in L'école des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), Johns Hopkins University, New York University and University of Hamburg.

 

Selected Publications

•           2020. A History of Kabbalah from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day. Cambridge University Press.

•           2016. Modern Kabbalah as an Autonomous Domain of Research. Cherub Press: Los Angeles (in Hebrew).

•           2015. The Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press.

•           2014. Kabbalist in the Eye of the Storm: R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto. Tel Aviv University Press (in Hebrew).

•           2011. Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah. The University of Chicago Press.

 

Selected Awards

 

2010:               President’s Prize for Outstanding Researcher (Pollack Family                         Foundation). Hebrew University.

2014                Gershom Scholem Prize for Research in Kabbalah. Israel Academy of              Sciences and Humanities.

2021 Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality

in the Humanistic Disciplines, Hebrew University

 

Teaching

Ba:

Writings of the Generaitons of Habad (2-5)

Religion and: Facism, Psychology, Social Theory, Political Theory, Embodiment

MA:

Readings of : Gate of Kavvanot, Leshem shvu ve ahalama

Niggun in Jewish Culture (taught with Prof. Edwin Serrousi)

The Doctrine of Evil in Kabbalah