ד"ר יצחק הרשקוביץ

ספרים

1. "Grieve Silently": Muteness, Abstention, and the Holocaust (Boston: Academic Studies Press, accepted for publication)
2. Spiritual Resurrection in the Writings of Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Vogelmann. Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Publishing, 2022. [Hebrew]
3. Hellinger, Moshe and Hershkowitz, Isaac, and Susser, Bernard. Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Politics, Ideology, and Civil Disobedience. Albany: SUNY Press, 2018.

1. Hellinger, Moshe and Hershkowitz, Isaac, Obedience and Civil Disobedience in Religious Zionism: From Gush Emunim to "Price Tag," Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2015.

מאמרים

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Decoding a Mystical Corpus: A Distant Reading of Rav Kook’s Writings," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy (forthcoming) (10,300 words)
4. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Reconstructing Simon Dubnow's Image in Religious-Zionist Journalism: Exploring the Legacy of a Historian," Religious Zionism (forthcoming). (10,800 words)
5. 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)
6. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "A Memorial Day for the Books Annihilated in the Holocaust: History and Reason," Review of Rabbinic Judaism 27, 2 (2024), 193-213.
7. Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Rabbi Kook in Žeimelis: A Big Data Analysis,” European Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 17, no. 2, 2023, pp. 249-275.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Hershkowitz, Isaac. “Early Religious Zionism and Erudition Concerning the Temple and Sacrifices,” Religions vol. 13, no. 4, 2022, 310 (15 pages).
11. 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.
12. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld: The Man and the Legend," Zion vol. 82, no. 4, 2018, pp. 489-516.
13. 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]
14. 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.
15. 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. ?
16. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Re-evaluating Kol HaTor," Daat vol. 79-80, 2015, pp. 163-182. [Hebrew]
17. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "U'mimidbar Matanah: The Holocaust Imprint on a Kabbalistic Treatise from Siberia's Praries," Daat vol. 78, 2015, pp. 93-105. [Hebrew]
18. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Nahmanides: Between Personal Admiration and an Intellectual Influence," Daat vol. 76, 2014, pp. 69-82. [Hebrew]
19. 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.
20. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Em Habanim Semekha: From a Canonic Treatise to a Dialectic Compilation," Alei Sefer vol. 22, 2012, pp. 115-127. [Hebrew]
21. 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]
22. 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.
23. 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]
24. 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]
25. 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]
26. 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]
27. 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.
28. 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

29. 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

1. 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]
2. 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]
3. 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]
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. 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]
7. 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]
8. 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]
9. 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]
10. 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.
    1. 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]
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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]
15. 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

1. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "On History, Metahistory, and Comparing the Incomparable," Yad Vashem Studies vol. 51, no. 2, 2024, pp. 195-203.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

1. Hershkowitz, Isaac. "Halakha." St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. (forthcoming) (9,000 words)
2. 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