Research Fields
- History of Modern Europe
- History of Sexuality
- French and German History
About
Moshe Sluhovsky studied medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before moving to Princeton University, where he earned his PhD in 1992 under the supervision of Professors Natalie Z. Davis and Peter Brown. After three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, he moved back to Israel and to the Hebrew University, where he has been teaching ever since. He became a Full Professor in 2013 and holds the Paulette and Paul Kelman Chair for the Study of the History of French Jewry. He has served as the Chair of the Department of History and the Institute of History, and as director of the Lafer Program for Women’s and Gender Studies.
Currently he has shifted his research interest to the history of the entanglement of Jews and homosexuality in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Prof. Sluhovsky has received grants from the German Israeli Foundation, the Einstein Stiftung, and the Israel Science Foundation to pursue this topic.
Selected Publications
2017 Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press), 232 pp.
2007 “Believe not Every Spirit": Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism (The University of Chicago Press), 373 pgs.
2021 Co-editor (with Andreas Krass), Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (Frankfurt: Transcript), 300 pp.
2019 (ed. and Introduction) Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin (Leiden and New York: Brill), 548 pp.
2007 – 2011 Editor in Chief, On the Threshold of a New Era, a series of 10 textbooks on early modern European History, The Open University of Israel (in Hebrew)
Selected Awards
2022-2024 ISF Research Grant (wth Prof. Yuvaul Yonay, Haifa University and Dr. Michal Shapira, TLV), 920,000.00 NIS
2020 - 2023 Einstein Stiftung grant (465,000.00 Euros)
2017-2020 German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research Fellowship (GIF) (200,000.00 Euros)
2013-2014 Distinguished Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative Initiative of the Graduate Center, City University of New York
2013-2014 Remarque Center Fellow, New York University
2012-2013 Davis Center Fellow, Princeton University
2002 – 2003 National Humanities Center Fellowship, North Carolina
Teaching
Introduction to 19th Century Europe
Introduction to 20th Century Europe
History of Modern Sexuality
The French Revolution
French Theory after 1945
Colonial Encounters
History and Theory (M.A.)
Theories of the Subject (M.A.)