Jonathan Garb

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According to Wikipedia, Jonathan Garb is an Israeli scholar of Kabbalah. He is holder of the Gershom Scholem chair in Kabbalah in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Jonathan Garb was born in 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and immigrated to Israel in 1973. In the 1980s, Garb studied Talmud and Kabbalah in the Lithuanian Yeshiva world, where he also studied Mussar with R. Shlomo Wolbe and R. Reuven Leuchter. He also studied Kabbalah with Rabbi Eliezer Zvi Safrin of Komarno and Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern. He later studied Talmud with Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at the Hebrew University between the years 1990 to 2001, his M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations were advised by Prof. Moshe Idel. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He served as a guest lecturer at the L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. In 2010, Garb received the Hebrew University President’s Prize for Outstanding Researcher . During the academic year 2011-2012, he was fellow at the Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization at New York University. He was head of the Amirim Honors Program in the years 2013-2014. In 2014, he received the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities' Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research. Between 2012 and 2022, he was a member of the editorial board of Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts.. Currently he is co-editor of Tarbiz; A Quarterly for Jewish Studies and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. In 2019 and 2022, he was a fellow at the Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies at University of Hamburg.

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Jonathan Garb's Published Works

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Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah (2011) (34)
The Cult of the Saints in Lurianic Kabbalah (2008) (27)
MYSTICAL AND SPIRITUAL DISCOURSE IN THE CONTEMPORARY ASHKENAZI HAREDI WORLDS (2010) (22)
Shame as an Existential Emotion in Modern Kabbalah (2015) (15)
The Chosen Will Become Herds: Studies in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah (2009) (14)
The Circle of Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto in Its Eighteenth-Century Context (2011) (8)
The Modernization of Kabbalah: A Case Study (2010) (7)
Yearnings of the Soul: Psychological Thought in Modern Kabbalah (2015) (5)
Moshe Idel s Contribution to the Study of Religion (2010) (3)
Mystics' critiques of mystical experience (2004) (2)
Powers Of Language In Kabbalah: Comparative Reflections (2007) (2)
Histories of the Hidden God: Shamanism and the hidden history of modern Kabbalah (2013) (1)
:The Shamanic Process: Descent and Fiery Transformations (2011) (1)
Jewish Mysticism in the Twentieth Century (2009) (1)
The Challenges of Teaching Mysticism (2012) (1)
A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day (2020) (1)
Doubt and Certainty in Early Modern Kabbalah (2017) (0)
Managing body-substance exposures. (1996) (0)
Premodern and Modern Kabbalah (2020) (0)
5. Sacred Space and Sacred Persons (2017) (0)
T he Cir C le of M oshe hayyi M luzza TT o in iT s e igh T een T h -C en T ury C on T ex T (2011) (0)
The Concept of Power in National Mysticism (2009) (0)
Hospital sharps-disposal system I. (1993) (0)
Psychological Notions of Power (2009) (0)
Idel and Religious Studies : an Overview (2007) (0)
Ṿe-Zot Li-Yehudah: Ḳovets Maʼamarim Ha-Muḳdash le-Ḥaverenu, Prof (2012) (0)
The Upsurge of Mysticism as a Jewish and Global Phenomenon (2009) (0)
Moshe Idel: An Intellectual Portrait (2014) (0)
2 The Safedian Revolution (2019) (0)
From Fear to Awe in Luzzatto’s Mesillat Yesharim (2020) (0)
A History of Kabbalah (2020) (0)
:Theory of Shamanism, Trance, and Modern Kabbalah (2011) (0)
Beginnings of Globalization (2020) (0)
Empowerment through Trance (2011) (0)
Trance and the Nomian (2011) (0)
The Drive to Disseminate Kabbalah (2009) (0)
The Kabbalistic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (2020) (0)
Circumvention and Violation of Halakha (2009) (0)
Clocks and Gardens: Turmoil and Order in Modern Kabbalah (2017) (0)
10 Soul Time in Modern Kabbalah (2015) (0)
Introduction. The Study of Twentieth-Century Kabbalah: Dilemmas and Possibilities (2017) (0)
3 Psychological Theories (2019) (0)
1 The Return of the Soul: Psychology and Modern Kabbalah (2019) (0)
5 The Soul and the Heart in Twentieth-Century Kabbalah (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2003) (0)
The Conversion of the Jews: Identity as Ontology in Modern Kabbalah (2021) (0)
6 Modern Mystical Psychology: A Comparative View (2019) (0)

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem