ד"ר יצחק הרשקוביץ
מחקריי עוסקים בכמה שדות מרכזיים, הגם שהם ארוגים אלה באלה.
כל מחקריי עוסקים בעולם המחשבה היהודי בשלוש מאות השנים האחרונות, בדגש על מחשבה רבנית. אני מתמקד בעיקר בתגובות דתיות ורעיוניות לשואה, במחשבה ציונית דתית, בפילוסופיה של ההלכה, ובהטעמת שימוש בכלי מחקר דיגיטליים (מבית המדרש של מחקר big data) לניתוח טקסטים פילוסופיים והגותיים יהודיים מודרניים.
בשנים האחרונות פרסמתי כמה וכמה מאמרים וספרים שעוסקים במחשבה היהודית בשואה ולאחריה, מתוך התבוננות בהיבטים אתיים, הרמנויטיים וקבליים של הטקסטים. כמו כן, עמלתי על ניתוח הפסיקה ההלכתית לנוכח השואה והקמת המדינה, על מגוון רחב של השלכות והתמודדויות, באופן שמאיר באור חדש מנגנוני ודרכי פסיקה, ומשקף תמורות מהותיות בעולמם של פוסקי ההלכה. סוגיות כגון היחס ל"אחר" ההלכתי, הר הבית, שימוש במקורות הלכתיים בתקופות משיחיות, לכידות לאומית כערך הלכתי ועוד, עמדו במוקד עיוניי.
בהיבט של המחקר הדיגיטלי, פרסמתי מספר מאמרים, וכן אתר אינטרנט, בו אני מטמיע אלמנטים מתקדמים מעולמות התוכן של מדעי הרוח הדיגטיליים, ביצירת מאגרי מידע חכמים וגמישים, על רבני גרמניה שנספו בשואה (germanrabbis.org), וכן בניתוחים חדשניים של משנת הראי"ה קוק, של חכמי המוסר בראשית העת החדשה, וכן של הגות עברית במפנה המאות 19-20.
מחקר
מענקי מחקר
2019 – מענק מטעם משרד המדע והטכנולוגיה, לטובת פרויקט Theology of the Last Generation: German Rabbis who Perished in the Holocaust (280,000 ₪, יחד עם פרופ' יעקב קולר)
פירסומים
ספרים
- "Grieve Silently": Muteness, Abstention, and the Holocaust (Boston: Academic Studies Press, accepted for publication)
- Spiritual Resurrection in the Writings of Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Vogelmann. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Publishing, 2022. [Hebrew]
- Hellinger, Moshe and Hershkowitz, Isaac, and Susser, Bernard. Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Politics, Ideology, and Civil Disobedience. Albany: SUNY Press, 2018.
- Hellinger, Moshe and Hershkowitz, Isaac, Obedience and Civil Disobedience in Religious Zionism: From Gush Emunim to "Price Tag," Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2015.
מאמרים
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Kasztner and the Rabbis: A Study in the Composition of the Passengers on the Kasztner Train," Yad Vashem Studies vol. 52, no. 2 (forthcoming 2024). (13,500 words)
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "From Shemona Qevazim to Orot HaKodesh: A Typological Analysis of Rabbi Kook's Writings and their Editing using Big Data Tools," Jewish Studies (forthcoming) [Hebrew]. (15,250 words)
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Decoding a Mystical Corpus: A Distant Reading of Rav Kook’s Writings," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (forthcoming) (10,300 words)
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Reconstructing Simon Dubnow's Image in Religious-Zionist Journalism: Exploring the Legacy of a Historian," Religious Zionism (forthcoming). (10,800 words)
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "The People Lead the Rabbis, the Women Lead the Men, And Eventually Everyone Will Join: On the Possibility of Halakhic Transitions in Women's Ascent to Temple Mount," Religious Zionism (forthcoming). [Hebrew] (7,600 words)
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "A Memorial Day for the Books Annihilated in the Holocaust: History and Reason," Review of Rabbinic Judaism 27, 2 (2024), 193-213.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Rabbi Kook in Žeimelis: A Big Data Analysis,” European Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 17, no. 2, 2023, pp. 249-275.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Angels and Demons in Early Modern Musar Literature: A Big Data Analysis," Journal of Jewish Ethics vol. 9, no. 1, 2023, pp. 28-50.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “The Status of the Jewish Temple in Modern Hebrew Literature (1848–1948): a Big-Data Analysis,” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities vol. 38, no. 3, 2023, pp. 1101-1114.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Early Religious Zionism and Erudition Concerning the Temple and Sacrifices,” Religions vol. 13, no. 4, 2022, 310 (15 pages).
- Hellinger, Moshe and Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Israel’s Settlement Project: The Formative Years, 1974-1977,” Journal of Church and State vol. 62, no. 2, 2020, pp. 249-268.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld: The Man and the Legend," Zion vol. 82, no. 4, 2018, pp. 489-516.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "The Holocaust Lamentation of Rabbi Shalom Moshe Halevi Ungar and its Range of Versions," Masoret Hapiyut, vol. 7, 2017, pp. 337-366. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "A Theology of Protest and a Theology of Containment: The Holocaust in the Rabbinic Works of Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Vogelmann," Yad Vashem Studies vol. 44, no. 1, 2016, pp. 99-134.
- Hellinger, Moshe, Hershkowitz, Isaac, and Susser, Bernard. "The Dialectic between Confrontation and Commitment: Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project," Politics and Religion vol. 9, no. 4, 2016, pp. 843-866. ?
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Re-evaluating Kol HaTor," Daat vol. 79-80, 2015, pp. 163-182. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "U'mimidbar Matanah: The Holocaust Imprint on a Kabbalistic Treatise from Siberia's Praries," Daat vol. 78, 2015, pp. 93-105. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Nahmanides: Between Personal Admiration and an Intellectual Influence," Daat vol. 76, 2014, pp. 69-82. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Yosef Hayyim’s Halakhically and Kabbalistically Based Approaches to Homosexuality: A Spatial–Traditional Study," Jewish Studies Quarterly vol. 20, no. 3, 2013, pp. 257-271.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Em Habanim Semekha: From a Canonic Treatise to a Dialectic Compilation," Alei Sefer vol. 22, 2012, pp. 115-127. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Tinok sheNishbah and the non-Observant Jew's Status in Rabbi Shmuel Vozner's Rulings," Diné Israel vol. 28, 2011, pp. 223-250. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "The Melody of the Sages: Does God Really Have a Voice?," Review of Rabbinic Judaism vol. 14, no. 1, 2011, pp. 120-128.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "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, pp. 623-637. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Geulat Yisrael by the Koznitzer Maggid: A Hasidic Ambivalent Attitude to Rabbi Loew of Prague," Daat vol. 68-69, 2010, pp. 15-31. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "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 vol. 26-27, 2009-2010, pp. 67-88. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "A Theurgical Commentary to Maimonides: Acquiring Conversion Certificates During the Holocaust in the Thoughts of Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal," Daat vol. 64-66, 2009, pp. 323-342. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "This Enormous Offense to the Torah": New Discoveries About the Controversy over the Escape of the Rabbis from Budapest, 1943-1944," Yad Vashem Studies vol. 37, no. 1, 2009, pp. 109-136.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "The Altar as God's House: A Study in Maimonides' Temple Perspectives," Jewish Studies Internet Journal (JSIJ) vol. 8, 2009, pp. 99-115. [Hebrew]
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/8-2009/Hershkowitz.pdf
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Studies in the Transmission of the Oral Torah According to Maimonides' Introduction to the Mishneh Torah," Jewish Studies Internet Journal (JSIJ) vol. 7, 2008, pp. 105-125. [Hebrew]
http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/7-2008/Hershkowitz.pdf
פרקים בספרים
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Asmodeus and Nukleus on Planet Auschwitz: Theology and Demonology in the Writings of Ka.tzetnik," in Ka.tzetnik's Riddle: His Life and Works, an Anthology, edited by Dina Porat and Yochai Ataria, Pardes: Haifa, 2023, pp. 329-351. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “The Land of Israel in Hasidic Literature,” in Or Hozer, edited by Avisar Har-Shefi, Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2022, pp. 76-101. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Religious-Zionism and Temple Mount: Sprouts of Reconstruction of an Ideological and Theological Language,” in The Temple Mount: Between Dream and Reality, edited by Yedidya Z. Stern, Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2022, pp. 231-270. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Religious-Zionist Thought in the Teaching Program of the Mamlakhti-Dati School System,” in MiMashgiach HaKashrut LeNahag HaKatar, edited by Yair Sheleg, Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute, 2020, pp. 45-64. [Hebrew]
- Hellinger, Moshe, and Hershkowitz, Isaac."The Ideological Struggle within Religious-Zionism and the Rabbinic Zionist Camp Against the Oslo Treatise,” in The Oslo Peace Process: A Twenty-Five Years’ Perspective, edited by Ephraim Lavie, Yael Ronen, and Henri Fishman, Jerusalem: Carmel, 2019, pp. 209-236. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Response of the Rabbinical World to the Battle of El-Alamein and Transformations during the War, at the End of 1942," in The End of 1942: A Turning Point in World War II and in the Comprehension of the Final Solution, edited by Dina Porat, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem Press, 2018, pp. 135-155. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Disputations and Reflections on the Tinok SHeNishbah Paradigm: Religious-Zionist Rabbis and Life in Israel,” Zionist Halakha, edited by Yedidia Z. Stern and Yair Sheleg, Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2018, pp. 466-495. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Yosef Hayyim Sonenfeld," in Hagedolim, edited by Benjamin Browm and Nissim Leon, Jerusalem: Magness Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2017, pp. 319-336. [Hebrew]
- Bacon, Gershon and Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Hayyim Ozer Grodzinsky: An Archetype of a Twentieth Century 'Godol'," in Hagedolim, edited by Benjamin Browm and Nissim Leon, Jerusalem: Magness Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2017, pp. 176-208. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Ethics after the Holocaust: Jewish Responses," in Nazi Ideology and Ethics, edited by Wolfgang Bialas and Lother Fritze, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp. 421-437.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac, "Ethik nach dem Holocaust. Jüdische Antworten," in Ideologie und Moral im Nationalsozialismus, edited by Wolfgang Bialas, Lothar Fritze, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, pp. 399-416. [German translation of previous]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "The Strengthening of Faith in Orthodox Discourse: A Reevaluation of Models of Faith," in Faith: Jewish Perspectives, edited by Avi Sagi and Dov Schwartz, Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2013, pp. 457-477.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac and Rashi, Tsuriel. "The Media Memory Agenda and the Struggle against Holocaust Deniers," in Contemporary History in the Digital Age, edited by Frédéric Clavert, Brussels: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 191-200.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Moral Considerations in Rabbinic Literature Regarding the Warsaw Uprising," in War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Biblical World to the Present, edited by Amnon Shapira and Yigal Levin ,Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012, pp. 165-185.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "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, edited by Yedidia Z. Stern and Shuki Friedman, Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute & Am Oved, 2011, pp. 463-503. [Hebrew]
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "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, edited by Marianne Neerland-Soleim, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, pp. 138-149.
בקורות ספרים
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "On History, Metahistory, and Comparing the Incomparable," Yad Vashem Studies vol. 51, no. 2, 2024, pp. 195-203.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "David Shatz, Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies, and Moral Theories (review)," Shofar vol. 31, no. 1, 2012, pp. 185-188.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "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 vol. 15, no. 3, 2009, pp. 97-99.
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "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 vol. 14, no. 2, 2008, pp. 123-126.
ערכים אנציקלופדיים
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Halakha." St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. (forthcoming) (9,000 words)
- Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Dualism, Judaism, Medieval and Modern Judaism," in: "Dualism," Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR), (DeGruyter). (5 pp.) http://www.degruyter.com/view/db/ebr
Hershkowitz, Isaac. "The Exodus in Medieval Judaism," in: "Exodus, The," Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR), (DeGruyter). (6 pp.) http://www.degruyter.com/view/db/ebr
אמצעי התקשורת
מגוש אמונים ועד תג מחיר הציונות הדתית וחוק המדינה - מדע סדרת הרצאות קצרות נוסח טד
אריה אלדד ובן כספית
ד"ר יצחק הרשקוביץ, חבר המחלקה לפילוסופיה יהודית באוניברסיטת בר אילן אשר חקר את בריחת הרבנים החרדים בשואה, שיתף בפרטים ההיסטוריים המרתקים
https://103fm.maariv.co.il/programs/media.aspx?ZrqvnVq=JGEIIJ&c41t4nzVQ=EF
מתח פנימי - רחלי מלק בודה
בעקבות הספרים שאבדו בשואה, ד"ר צחי הרשקוביץ - בר-דעת פודקאסטים
https://youtu.be/8oFe77gbvnw?si=UL0VOG8rNrm2prCG
המהפך של הרב האנטי ציוני
https://www.ynet.co.il/article/4015543
תגובות של מחנכים ורבנים לשמועות ולהתפתחויות במהלך מלחמת העולם השנייה בכלל ובסוף שנת 1942 בפרט
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IqZlKY6-88
ד”ר יצחק הרשקוביץ - ‘כי אם אל המקום’ - הר הבית המתקדש והולך
https://youtu.be/QJUqgUPxCHg?si=lNDWKhnebklYL463
ד״ר יצחק הרשקוביץ -גורל הגרא ופרקטיקות פייאטיסטיות כתבי הקודש כמקור זמין של תבונה
https://youtu.be/gLiyQ1QG40g?si=-hHtFxYNaWj2mCy2
ד"ר צחי הרשקוביץ: קווי מתאר לניתוח ביג דאטא של כתבי האדמו"ר מפיאסצנה - פתיחתא: רשפי אש הקודש תשפ"ג
https://youtu.be/Ld0USIkG7xo?si=P3lx8GVvf5uEMQjo
מרכז דהאן - ד"ר צחי הרשקוביץ - הנצי"ב מוולוז'ין כניאו-רמב"מיסט
https://youtu.be/MqN1E9vmjDo?si=_SvHkLTt13aqCUJ1
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 01/12/2024