Dr. Tzippi Kauffman
CV
Education
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Degree |
Subject |
Name of University |
Period of study |
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BA |
Physics |
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
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1990-1993 |
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MA |
Jewish Philosophy |
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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1996-1998 |
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PhD |
Jewish Philosophy |
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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2000-2005 |
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"Sacred Time in the Thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel"
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Title of Master's thesis |
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Prof. Moshe Idel
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Name of Supervisor |
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"Between Immanence and Religious Behavior: Avodah be-Gashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism"
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Name of Doctoral dissertation |
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Prof. Moshe Idel
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Name of Supervisor |
Academic and Professional Experience
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Rank/Function |
department |
Name of Institution |
Period |
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Senior Research Fellow
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Institute for Advanced Studies
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Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem |
2005-2010 |
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Co-director |
Hadarim Beit midrash for students
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Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem |
2006-2008 |
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Teacher Part-time (Hasidism: History and Literature)
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Jewish Philosophy |
Schechter Rabbinical Seminary in Jerusalem |
2007 |
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Member of the work team for establishing Beit-Midrash Seder-Nashim
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Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem |
2007-2008 |
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Co-director |
Seder-Nashim: Beit-Midrash on Judaism and Jender |
Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem |
2008-2012 |
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Teacher Part-time (Religion and Gender)
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Religious Studies |
Tel Aviv University |
2010-2012 |
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Lecturer, faculty member |
Jewish Philosophy |
Bar Ilan University |
2012- |
Active Participation in Scientific Meetings
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Title of Lecture |
Name of Meeting |
Year |
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"Mysticism research and spiritual life- reflections on direct reciprocity" |
The 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies |
2005 |
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"A. J. Heschel and Hasidism" |
Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem |
2009 |
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"The Yemima Method- Conscious Awareness as a contemporary Feminine Hasidism with Feminist Traits" |
The 3rd Israeli Conference on the Study of Contemporary Spiritualities, Haifa University |
2011 |
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"Disposable and Polyphonic Religiosity in the Hasidic Story and in Feminist Theology" |
Kolech Conference |
2011 |
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"Rabbi Zusha of Hanipol- a footnote to Scholem's research on Hasidism |
Gershom Scholem Conference at the National Library |
2012 |
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"Models and Metaphors in Hasidism" |
The International Conference on Study and Research on Kabbalah- In Honor of Prof. Idel & Prof. Liebes |
2012 |
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"Kaballistic and Hasidic trends in women's contemporary discourse on ritual immersion" |
The 5th Israeli Conference on the Study of Contemporary Spiritualities, Tel Aviv University |
2013 |
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"Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa" |
The 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies |
2013 |
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"The Shekhinah in Disguise- A Chapter in the Theology of the Besht"
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Kolech Conference, Bar Ilan University |
2013 |
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"Dreamlike relationships- from Zoharic story to Hasidic story"
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AJS Conference, Boston |
2013 |
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"'Outside the Way of Nature'- Tememrel the female-Hasid" |
"Check-Jewish and Polish-Jewish: (Dis)Similarities", Prague |
2014 |
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"The Baal-Shem-Tov's Journey to the Land of Israel" |
The 7th Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Religion and Spirituality |
2015 |
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"Rabbi Nahman's Besht- inheritance, interpretation and construction"
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AJS Conference, Boston |
2015 |
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"The Religious Experience in Hassidism: Performative and Linguistic Tools"
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Heavenly Acts, London |
2016 |
Academic and Professional Awards
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Occasion |
Name of Institution |
Year |
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Scholarship (MA)
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Hebrew University |
1996-1998 |
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Scholarship (PhD)
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The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University |
2003-2004 |
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Award (PhD) |
The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines |
2006 |
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Scholarship |
Beit-Shalom Foundation |
2015 |
Courses
The Early Stages of Hasidism- The Besht
The Early Stages of Hasidism- The Magid of Mezritch
Likkutey Moharan- Between Existentialism and Mysticism
The Hasidic Story
The Child Archetype in Kabbalah and Hasidism: Prophecy, Messianism and Renewal
Neo-Hassidism
Exile, Redemption and Messianism in Jewish Mysticism
Publications
Books
Tsippi Kauffman, In all your ways know him: The concept of God and Avodah be-Gashmiyut in the Early Stages of Hasidism (Hebrew), Bar Ilan University Press, 2009
Published Articles
Tsippi Abrahamov, "Correction or Creation? The Idea of Repentance in the Thought of Rabbi Isaac Hutner" (Hebrew), Daat 44 (2000), pp. 95-122
Tsippi Kauffman, "Corporeal Worship in the Writings of R. Jacob Isaac, the Seer of Lublin" (Hebrew), Kabbalah 16 (2007), pp.259-298
Tsippi Kauffman, "Idolatry in Hasidic Thought" (Hebrew), Akdamot 19 (2007), pp. 87-104
Tsippi Kauffman, "Typology of Avodah be-gashmiyut in the Hasidic Thought" (Hebrew), Daat 62 (2008), pp. 127-165
Tsippi Kauffman, "Abraham Joshua Heschel and Hasidism- Corporeal Worship as an ethical demand" (Hebrew), Akdamot 24 (2010), pp. 137-155
Tsippi Kauffman, "Two Tzaddikim, Two Women in Labor, and One Salvation: Reading Gender in a Hasidic Story", Jewish Quarterly Review, 101(3) (summer 2011), pp. 420-438
Tsippi Kauffman, "The Yemima Method as a Contemporary-Hasidic-Female Movement", Modern Judaism, 32(2) (2012), pp. 195-215
Tsippi Kauffman, "Theological Aspects of Bilingualism in Hasidic Society" (Hebrew), Gal-Ed 23 (2012), pp. 131-156
Tsippi Kauffman, "Ritual Immersion at the Beginning of Hasidism" (Hebrew), Tarbiz LXXX (3) (2012), pp. 409-425
Tsippi Kauffman, "On the Portrait of a Saddiq: R. Zusha of Annopol" (Hebrew), Kabbalah 30 (2013), pp. 273-301
Tsippi Kauffman, "Birth in Hasidic literature: Gendered readings" (Hebrew), Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature 27 (2014), pp. 67-101
Tsippi Kauffman, "The Hasidic story- a Call for Narrative Religiosity", The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 22 (2014), pp. 101-126
Tsippi Kauffman, "Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Przysucha" (Hebrew), Tarbiz LXXXII(2) (2014), pp. 335-372
Tsippi Kauffman, "Hasidic Performance: Establishing a Religious (non)Identity in the Tales about Rabbi Zusha of Annopol", The Journal of Religion 95(1) (2015), pp. 51-71
Tsippi Kauffman, "The Shekhinah in Disguise- A Chapter in the Theology of the Besht" (Hebrew), Daat 78 (2015), pp. 151-170
Tsippi Kauffman, "The Ba'al Shem Tov's Journey to the Land of Israel" (Hebrew), Zion LXXX(1) (2015), pp. 7-41
Tsippi Kauffman, "Typology of the Tsaddik in the Teachings of R. Abraham the Angel" (Hebrew), Kabbalah 33 (2015), pp. 239-272
Accepted articles
"Self-Image and the Father-Figure– R. Nachman of Breslav on Repairing the Souls of the Dead", (Harvard Theological Review)
'“Outside the Natural Order” –Temer’l, the Female Hasid', (Studia Judaica)
"R. Nachman's Besht- The Construction of the Father Figure"(Hebrew), (Kabbalah)
Refereed Articles in Books
Tsippi Kauffman, "Ritual Immersion of/in the Shekhinah: On Mystical Intentions of the Mikveh in Kabbalah and Hasidism" (Hebrew), Avi Elqayam & Haviva Pedaya (eds.), The Flint into a Fountain of Waters: Studies in Kabbalah, Jewish Law, Custom and Philosophy Submitted to Prof. Moshe Hallamish, Jerusalem 2016, pp 480-515
Reviews
Tsippi Kauffman, "Netanel Lederberg, The Gateway to Infinity: Rabbi Dov Bear, The Magid Meisharim of Mezhirich" (Hebrew), Segula 14 (2013)
Tsippi Kauffman, "Gadi Sagiv, Dynasty: The Chernobyl Hasidic Dynasty and Its Place in the History of Hasidism" (Hebrew), Zion LXXX(4) (2015), 583-589
Last Updated Date : 22/12/2022
