Jonatan Meir

 

 

Articles

  1. ‘Ahijah the Shilonite as the Spiritual Guide of the Ba'al Shem Tov’, Mishlav 30 (1997), pp. 33-49 (Hebrew)

  2. ‘Rabbi Menahem Mendel of Kotsk Commentary to the Akeda’, Mishlav 33 (1999), pp. 101-119 (Hebrew)

  3. ‘The Status of Commandments in the Philosophy of Rabbi Mordechai Joseph Leiner of Izbica’, Mishlav 35 (2000), pp. 27-53 (Hebrew)

  4. ‘Messiah In Exile: Studies in Sefer Or la-Samayim’, A Present to Joseph, Studies in Judaica Presented to Professor Joseph Dan on the Occasion of his Retirement, by his Students, Jerusalem: The Hebrew  University,  2002, pp. 157-180 (Hebrew)

  5. ‘Being Esoteric: The Hassidic-Movement Researcher Joseph Weiss and "The Tale of the Seven Beggars" of R. Nachman of Bratslav’, Haaretz, Tarbut ve-Sifrut, p. 2, with Noam Zaddof (Hebrew)

  6. ‘A Tale on a King who Played Chess all the Time: A Bratslavian-Kafkaic Story from the Personal Archive of Joseph Weiss', Haaretz, Tarbut ve-Sifrut, p. 2, with Noam Zaddof  (Hebrew)

  7. ‘Hillel Zeitlin's Zohar, The History of a Translation and Commentary Project’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 10 (2004), pp. 119-157 (Hebrew)

  8. ‘On a Hidden Poem of R. Kook and the Travails of its Publication’, Daat 55 (2005), pp. 165-168 (Hebrew)

  9. Lights and Vessels: A New Inquiry into the "Circle" of Rav Kook and the Editors of his Works’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 13 (2005), pp. 163-247 (Hebrew)

  10. ‘Longing of Souls for the Shekina: Relations Between Rabbi Kook, Zeitlin and Brenner’, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, Volume 19 (2005), pp. 771-818 (Hebrew)

  11. ‘The Empty Space, Sabbateanism and its Melodies: Joseph Weiss’ Reading of Liqqutei Moharan §64’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 15 (2006), pp. 197-232, with Noam Zadoff (Hebrew)

  12. ‘Wrestling with the Esoteric: Hillel Zeitlin,  Yehudah  Ashlag,  and Kabbalah in the Land of Israel’, Judaism, Topics, Fragments, Faces, Identities: Jubilee Volume in Honor of Professor Rivka Horwitz, eds. Ephraim Meir and Haviva Pedaya, Beer Sheva, 2007, pp. 585-647 (Hebrew)

  13. ‘The Revealed and the Revealed within the Concealed: On the Opposition to the "Followers" of Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag and the Dissemination of Esoteric Literature’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 16 (2007), pp. 151-258 (Hebrew)

  14. ‘Divrei Shalom or Hayei Moharash: Satiric Manuscripts from the Joseph Weiss Archives’, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, Volume 20 (2007), pp. 365-384, with Noam Zadoff (Hebrew)

  15. ‘The Possibility of Frankist Traces in the Teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav’, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, Volume 20 (2007), pp. 385-413, with Noam Zadoff  (Hebrew)

  16. ‘Yearning for Eternity: The Prayers of Hillel Zeitlin’, Massekhet 7 (2007), pp. 99-132, with Asael Abelman (Hebrew)

  17. 'New Readings in Joseph Perl’s Bohen Zaddik’, Tarbiz 76 (2008), pp. 557-590 (Hebrew)

  18. ‘Michael Levi Rodkinson: Between Hasidism and Haskalah’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 18 (2008), pp. 229-286 (Hebrew)

  19. 'Salomon Buber', The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008, 1, pp. 251-252

  20. 'Me’ir ha-Levi Rotenberg of Apt', The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008, 1, p. 1145

  21. 'Yosef Perl', The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert, New  Haven  &  London:  Yale University Press, 2008, 2, pp. 1342-1344

  22. 'Tarnopol', The YIVO Encyclopedia of  Jews in Eastern Europe, ed. Gershon David Hundert, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008, 2, pp. 1857-1858

  23. Zvi la-Tzadik: Joseph Perl, R. Zvi Hirsch of Zidachov and the Controversy of Numerology’, Spiritual Authority: Struggles over Cultural Power in Jewish Thought, eds. Howard Kreisel, Boaz Huss, Uri Ehrlich, Beer Sheva (2009), pp. 266-300 (Hebrew)

  24. ‘New Discoveries Concerning R. Judah Leib Ashlag’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 19 (2009), pp. 345-368 (Hebrew)

  25. [Pinchas Giller, Shalom Shar'abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008], The Journal of Religion 89 (2009), pp. 448-450

  26. ‘The Imagined Decline of Kabbalah: The Kabbalistic Yeshiva Sha‘ar ha-Shamayim and Kabbalah in Jerusalem in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century’, Kabbalah and Modernity ,eds. Boaz Huss, Marco Pasi, Kocku von Stuckrad, Brill: Leiden & Boston, 2010, pp. 197-220

  27. The Book of Visions: Hillel Zeitlin's Mystical Diary in Light of Unpublished Correspondence’, Alei Sefer 21 (2010), pp. 149-171 (Hebrew)

  28. ‘Stations in the Life of Michael Levi Rodkinson: Prolegomena to a Biography’, GAL-ED 22 (2010), pp. 13-44 (Hebrew)

  29. 'Scholem’s Archives [Gershom Scholem,  The Latest Phase: Essays on Hasidism]’, Tarbiz 78 (2010), pp. 255-270 (Hebrew)

  30. [Zvi Mark, Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision of  R.  Nahman, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2006], Zion 75 (2010), pp. 97-103 (Hebrew)

  31. 31.    ‘Zaddikim in Hell’ [Uriel Gellman, Sefer Hasidim: A Lost Anti-Hasidic Polemic, The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem 2007], GAL-ED 22 (2010), pp. 138-145

  32. ‘The Boundaries of the Kabbalah: R. Yaakov Moshe Hillel and the Kabbalah in Jerusalem’, Kabbalah and Contemporary Spiritual Revival, ed. Boaz Huss, Beer Sheva University Press, 2011, pp, 163-180

  33. ‘The Kabbala in America: The Unpublished Manuscripts of Levi I. Krakovsky’. Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 24 (2011), pp. 171-208 (Hebrew)

  34. ‘Phillip  Berg  and the Kabbalah Centre’ [Jody Myers, Kabbalah and the Spiritual Quest: The Kabbalah Centre in America, Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger Publishers, 2007], Daat 70 (2011), pp. 159-162 (Hebrew)

  35. ‘Marketing Demons: Joseph Perl, Israel Baal Shem Tov and the History of One Amulet’, Kabbalah: Journal for the  Study  of Jewish Mystical Texts 28 (2012), pp. 35-66

  36. ‘Introduction’, Shmuel Werses, Joseph Perl and his Literary Legacy, Collected Articles, ed. Jonatan Meir, Tel Aviv:  Tel Aviv  University Press, pp. 5-8 (Hebrew)

  37. ‘Jacob Frank: The Wondrous Charlatan’, Tarbiz 80 (2012), pp. 463-474 (Hebrew)

  38. ‘Toward the Popularization of Kabbalah: R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad and the Kabbalists of Jerusalem’, Modern Judaism 33, 2 (2013), pp. 147-172

  39. ‘The Beginnings of Kabbalah in America: The Unpublished Manuscripts of R. Levi Isaac Krakovsky’, Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 13, 2 (2013), pp. 237-268

  40. ‘The Origins of Hevrat Mekize Nirdamim in Eastern Europe’, From the Depths of the Archive to the Bookshelf, Jerusalem, 2013, pp. 33-45 (Hebrew)

  41. Megalle Temirin’, Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, ed. Dan Diner, Simon Dubnow Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Stuttgart-Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2013, vol. 4, pp. 103-108

  42. ‘”Die Lezten Kabbalisten in Deutschland”: Gershom Scholem und die Wechsler Familie’, Gershom Scholem und Deutschland, eds. Elke Morlok, Gerold Necker, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014, pp. 243-258

  43. ‘The Eclectic Kabbalah of R. Shimon Zvi Horowitz (A Critical Note on the Term Lithuanian Kabbalah’, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 31 (2014), pp. 411-420 (Hebrew)

  44. 'Goral ha- Tsaddikim: A Forgotten Satire against Bratslav Hasidism and the Pilgrimage to Uman', Dehak: Journal of Hebrew Literature 4 (2014), pp. 283-313 (Hebrew)

  45. 'The Politics of Printing Sefer Likutei Tefilot’, Zion 80 (2015), pp. 43-68 (Hebrew)

  46. 'Joseph Perl, Rabbi Nathan of Nemirov, and the invention of “Holy Books”', The Library of the Haskalah: The Creation of a Modern Republic of Letters in Jewish Society in the German-Speaking Sphere, eds. Shmuel Feiner and others, Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2015, pp. 350-391 (Hebrew)

  47. 'Haskalah and Esotericism in Galicia: The Unpublished Writings of Elyakim Hamilzahgi', Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 33 (2015), pp. 273-313 (Hebrew)

  48. 'Михаэль Лайтман и группа «Бней-Барух»' 'Michael Laitman and His Group “Bnei Baruch”', Государство, религия, церковь Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom 33 (2015), pp. 192-223 (Russian)

  49. 'ヒレル・ツァイトリンとポーランドにおけるユダヤ神秘主義 の再生' 'Hillel  Zeitlin  and  the Renaissance of  East European  Hasidism', Namal: Journal of the Japanese Association of Jewish Studies, Kobe, 20 (2015), pp. 28-38

  50. [Michael Stanislawski, A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History, Jerusalem 2010] GAL-ED 24 (2015), pp. 173-176 (Hebrew)

  51. 'The Hebrew Lucian: On the Hebrew Translation of "Alexander the False Prophet"', Dehak: Journal of Hebrew Literature 5 (2015), pp. 278-304 (Hebrew)

  52. 'Be-ikvot Mashiah by Gershom Scholem', The Story of Moshe Spitzer and his Publishing House Tarshish, eds. Ada Vardi, Ariel Vardi, and Meron Eren, Jerusalem: Mineged, 2015, pp. 96-101(Hebrew)

  53. 'Gog and Magog by Martin Buber', The Story of Moshe Spitzer and his Publishing House Tarshish, eds. Ada Vardi, Ariel Vardi, and Meron Eren, Jerusalem: Mineged, 2015, pp. 108-111 (Hebrew)

  54. ‘R. Yosef Chaim and the Kabbalah in the Land of Israel’, The Flint into a Fountain of Waters: Studies in Kabbalah, Jewish Law, Custom and Philosophy Submitted to Prof. Moshe Hallamish, eds. Avraham Elqayam, Haviva Pedaya, Jerusalem: Carmel, 2016, pp. 542-561 (Hebrew)

  55. 'The Discovery and Publication of Josef Perl's Yiddish Writings', Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 13 (2016), pp 55-69

  56. 'R. Nathan Sternhartz’s Likutey Tefilot and the Formation of Bratslav Hasidism', The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 24 (2016), pp. 60-94

  57. 'Mystical Songs of Bratslav Hasidim’, Jewish Prayer: New Perspectives, ed. Uri Erlhich, Beer Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2016, pp. 185-254 (Hebrew)

  58. 'О последователях рабби Й.-Л. Ашлага, полемике с ними и о распространении еврейской каббалистической литературы (On the Opposition to the Followers of Rabbi Yehudah Ashlag and the Dissemination of Esoteric Literature)', Mesto (2016), pp. 1-120 (Russian)

  59. 'The Adventures of the Hebrew Book and the Agony of the Satirical Author (Jospeh Perl's Introduction to Sefer Bohen Tzadik 1838)', Dehak: Journal of Hebrew Literature 7 (2016), pp. 688-705 (Hebrew)

  60. 'Christianity, Enlightenment and Kabbalah: The Image of Habad among Maskikim’, Habad Hasidism: History, Theology and Image, eds. Jonatan Meir, Gadi Sagiv, Jerusalem, 2016, 20 pp. (Hebrew), (accepted)

  61. 'The Lost Yiddish Translations of Shivchei Ha-Besht (1815-1817)', Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 35 (2016), 30 pp. (Hebrew) (accepted)

  62. 'From Vilnius to Jerusalem: Shmuel Werses and the Research  of  Jewish Literature’, Ma'ase Sipur: Jewish Prose Studies, 4, ed. Avidov Lipsker, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2017, 18 pp. (2017) (Hebrew), (accepted)

  63. 'An Unpublished Song by R. Nathan Sternhartz’, Rafi Weiser Festschrift, ed. Gil Weisblai, Jerusalem, 2017, 28 pp. (2017) (Hebrew), (accepted)

  64. 'The Image of Forbidden Books and Book Burning in 19th Century Jewish Literature', Moshe Peli Jubilee Volume, Eds. Zev Garber, Lev Hakak, Stephen Katz, Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2017,  15 pp. (accepted)

  65. 'Reform Hasidism: The Image of Habad in Haskalah Literature', Modern Judaism (2017), 24 pp. (English) (accepted)

  66. 'Bratslav Hasidim in Jerusalem: S.Z. Schoken, A.M. Haberman and Shmuel Hurwits', Zeev Gries Jubilee Volume, Eds. Oded Israel, Rami Reiner, Avriel bar Levav, Jonatan Meir, Jerusalem: Carmel. 22 pages (2017) (accepted)'The Image of Sabbatianism in the Book

  67. Shivhei ha-Besht (In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov)', Israel Bartal Festschrift, eds. Gershom Hundert, Dimitry Shumsky, Jonatan Meir, Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Press, 2017, 20 pp. (accepted)

 

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