Dr. Isaac Hershkowitz

Current Projects

1. Re-Nomianism and Revival: The Halakhic Thought of Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Vogelmann.
2. Revising Esh Kodesh: Studies in the Manuscript and its Implications.

Books

1. Obedience and Civil Disobedience in Religious Zionism: From Gush Emunim (1974) to the Price Tag Attacks (2013), (The Israel Democracy Institute: In Press). (Co-authored with Dr. Moshe Hellinger) [Hebrew - temporary title]

Articles

1."A Theology of Protest and a Theology of Containment: The Holocaust in the Rabbinic Works of Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Vogelmann," Yad Vashem Studies. (forthcoming)

2."Re-evaluating Kol HaTor," Daat. (forthcoming) [Hebrew]

3."Jews and the Crusade against the AntichristIgnaz Maybaum’s Early Reflections on the Second World War," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. (forthcoming)

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5."The Holocaust Lamentation of Rabbi Shalom Moshe Halevi Ungar and its Range of Versions," Masoret Hapiyut (forthcoming). [Hebrew]

6."U'mimidbar Matanah: The Holocaust Imprint on a Kabbalistic Treatise from Siberia's Praries," Daat 78 (2015), 93-105. [Hebrew]

7."Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Nahmanides: Between Personal Admiration and an Intellectual Influence," Daat 76 (2014), 69-82. [Hebrew]

8."Rabbi Yosef Hayyim’s Halakhically and Kabbalistically Based Approaches to Homosexuality: A Spatial–Traditional Study," Jewish Studies Quarterly 20, 3 (2013), 257-271.

9."Em Habanim Semekha: From a Canonic Treatise to a Dialectic Compilation," Alei Sefer 22 (2012), 115-127. [Hebrew]

10."Tinok sheNishbah and the non-Observant Jew's Status in Rabbi Shmuel Vozner's Rulings," Diné Israel 28 (2011), 223-250. [Hebrew]

11."The Melody of the Sages: Does God Really Have a Voice?," Review of Rabbinic Judaism

12."The Purpose of the Creation is the Man: The Woman's Status de facto and de jure in a Polemic on the Nature of Couple Treatments in Haredi Society," Gender in Israel, I'yunim Bitkumat Israel: Gender in Israel (2011), 623-637. [Hebrew]

13."Geulat Yisrael by the Koznitzer Maggid: A Hasidic Ambivalent Attitude to Rabbi Loew of Prague ," Daat 68-69 (2010), 15-31. [Hebrew]

14."Halakha as a Tool in Reshaping Orthodox Policies: The Freedom of Jurisprudence and the Responsibility of the Ruler in the Meditations of R. Yissakhar Shlomo Teikhtal," Diné Israel 26-27 (2009-2010), 67-88. [Hebrew]

15."A Theurgical Commentary to Maimonides: Acquiring Conversion Certificates During the Holocaust in the Thoughts of Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal," Daat 64-66 (2009), 323-342.[Hebrew]

16."This Enormous Offense to the Torah": New Discoveries About the Controversy over the Escape of the Rabbis from Budapest, 1943-1944," Yad Vashem Studies 37, 1 (2009), 109-136.

17."The Altar as God's House: A Study in Maimonides' Temple Perspectives," Jewish Studies Internet Journal (JSIJ) 8 (2009), 99-115. [Hebrew]

http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/8-2009/Hershkowitz.pdf

18."Studies in the Transmission of the Oral Torah According to Maimonides' Introduction to the Mishneh Torah," Jewish Studies Internet Journal (JSIJ) 7 (2008), 105-125. [Hebrew]

http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/7-2008/Hershkowitz.pdf

Chapters in Books

1."Rabbi Yosef Hayyim Sonenfeld," in Benjamin Browm and Nissim Leon (eds.), Hagedolim (Jerusalem: Shazar Institute and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, forthcoming). [Hebrew]

2."Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinsky: an Archetype of a Twentieth Century 'Godol'," in Benjamin Browm and Nissim Leon (eds.), Hagedolim (Jerusalem: Shazar Institute and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, forthcoming). [co-authored with Gershon Bacon; Hebrew]

3."Ethics after the Holocaust: Jewish Responses," in Wolfgang Bialas and Lother Fritze (eds.), Nazi Ideology and Ethics (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 421-437.

4."Social Justice and Egalitarian Propensities in the Redemption Doctrines of the Vilna Gaon's Disciples," in Equality and Inequality in Judaism, ed. Moshe Hellinger (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, forthcoming). [Hebrew]

5."Just War Theory and the Warsaw Uprising: Rabbinic Rulings Revised," in War and Morality in Light of the Jewish Political Tradition, ed. Moshe Hellinger (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, forthcoming). [Hebrew]

6."Reflections on the 'Tinok Shenishbah' Paradigm: Religious-Zionist Rabbis and the State of Israel," in Zionist Halakha, eds. Yedidia Z. Stern and Yair Sheleg (Jerusalem: Israel democracy Institute, forthcoming). [Hebrew]

7."Ethik nach dem Holocaust. Jüdische Antworten," in  Wolfgang Bialas, Lothar Fritze (eds.), Ideologie und Moral im Nationalsozialismus (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 399-416. [German; translation of no. 1]

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9."The Media Memory Agenda and the Struggle against Holocaust Deniers," in Contemporary History in the Digital Age, ed. Frédéric Clavert (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2013), 191-200. [co-authored with Dr. Tsuriel Rashi]

10."Moral Considerations in Rabbinic Literature Regarding the Warsaw Uprising," in War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Biblical World to the Present, eds. Amnon Shapira and Yigal Levin (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012), 165-185.

11."Wide Electorates for Chief Rabbis at the Return to the Land of Israel (1893-1921): A Comparative Revision in the Thoughts of Rabbi Ya'akov Shaul Elyashar and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook," in Rabbis and Rabbinate: The Challenge, vol. 1, eds. Yedidia Z. Stern and Shuki Friedman (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute & Am Oved, 2011), 463-503. [Hebrew]

12."Rabbinic Nazi Camp Survivors and the Call for a Religious Protection of Human Prerogatives," in Prisoners of War and Forced Labor: Histories of War and Occupation, ed. Marianne Neerland-Soleim (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), 138-149.

Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

1.(http://www.degruyter.com/view/db/ebr, last checked 5/6/2013)

2."The Exodus in Medieval Judaism," in: "Exodus, The," Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR)(http://www.degruyter.com/view/db/ebr, last checked 12/1/2014)

3. "David Shatz, Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies, and Moral Theories (review)," Shofar 31, 1 (2012), 185-188.

4."Netivei Halakhah Institute, Holocaust Responsa Project (A Comprehensive Database of Scholarly Responsa pertaining to the Holocaust), Jerusalem, 2006," Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 15, 3 (2010), pp. 97-99.

5."The Holocaust Research Center, Jerusalem College, Holocaust History in Prefaces of Rabbinic Literature (a digitalized CD-Rom database with advanced search options), Jerusalem, 2007," Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History 14, 2 (2009).