Eli Rubin

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In today's mail: the new issue of Lubavitch International, with a wonderful review of *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* by Prof. Paul Franks of Yale University

Title page of Der Ganz Jüdisch glaub (“The Entire Jewish faith”) by Anton Margaritha, Augsburg, 1530)

UCL Content Launches online: Collection 27 of Early European Books, Judaica from ProQuest Witchcraft and Magic in England 1400-1920 from British Online Archives, and Name-rich sources from FindMyPast / The Social History Archive @uclspeccoll.bsky.social blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

I'm now posting weekly on substack, check out this week's edition and subscribe!

I'm now posting weekly on substack, check out this week's edition and subscribe!

Memory as a Way of Life: What Do You Remember? "This very phrase — vos gedenkstu — vitalized hasidim throughout their generations with life that revitalizes the dead."

“When I was five years old … I was with my parents in Yalta (Crimea). While strolling in the mountains, I would play near my father. Often, my father would ask me what I remember of what I had seen when I was still very small.”
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Memory as a Way of Life: What Do You Remember? "This very phrase — vos gedenkstu — vitalized hasidim throughout their generations with life that revitalizes the dead."

“When I was five years old … I was with my parents in Yalta (Crimea). While strolling in the mountains, I would play near my father. Often, my father would ask me what I remember of what I had seen when I was still very small.”
elirubin.substack.com/p/memory-as-...

This was fun!

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity | Stanford University Press Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin ar...

For anyone curious about Chabad and Kabbalah, I wrote a whole book about it!

Get 20% off *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism* when you order direct from the publisher using the code RUPTURE20
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What Walter Benjamin Knew A new biography of the Berlin-born philosopher emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience.

A new @yalepress.bsky.social biography of the Walter Benjamin emphasizes his combination of stubborn unworldliness and startling prescience — reviewed by Anahid Nersessian in the @newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tomorrow!

The Cristol Lecture - "Modernity as Rupture: From Kabbalah to Freud"

March 5 | 6:30 p.m. | Brite Divinity School, Bass Conference Center, 2925 Princeton Street, Forth Worth, TX

Tomorrow!

The Cristol Lecture - "Modernity as Rupture: From Kabbalah to Freud"

March 5 | 6:30 p.m. | Brite Divinity School, Bass Conference Center, 2925 Princeton Street, Forth Worth, TX

How Purim Flips Theology Inside-Out and Upside-Down A chassidic meditation on the ambiguity of Achashveirosh in the Megillah and of G-d in the world

How Purim Flips Theology Inside-Out and Upside-Down
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How Purim Flips Theology Inside-Out and Upside-Down A chassidic meditation on the ambiguity of Achashveirosh in the Megillah and of G-d in the world

How Purim Flips Theology Inside-Out and Upside-Down
elirubin.substack.com/p/how-purim-...

Later this week!

Yey! My bikhl about Chabad in interwar Poland is available for pre-order!
Coming out from MQUP in mid-September.
www.amazon.ca/Polish-Exile...

The Polish Exile Hasidism, a vibrant Jewish mystical movement, emerged in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. Among its branches, Chabad took root and flourished in tsarist Russia, radiating its distinct intelle...

The Polish Exile www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

Just arrived back in Pittsburgh after spending the last few days reading Shivchei Habesht with Prof. Yonatan Meir at Johns Hopkins University, courtesy of Profs. Pawel Maciejko and Samuel Spinner

Losing Faith in Atheism I spent years searching for a livable secular world view, but none of them quite offered the value of belief.

Losing Faith in Atheism

An excellent and important call for a reevaluation of the relationship between religion and liberalism, by Christopher Beha

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Losing Faith in Atheism I spent years searching for a livable secular world view, but none of them quite offered the value of belief.

Losing Faith in Atheism

An excellent and important call for a reevaluation of the relationship between religion and liberalism, by Christopher Beha

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What Do Masks Mean? A book review with an Adar / Purim theme

What Do Masks Mean?

A book review with an Adar / Purim theme

@sharrona.bsky.social's *Mask* from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social is a fun and insightful read!

open.substack.com/pub/elirubin...

What Do Masks Mean? A book review with an Adar / Purim theme

What Do Masks Mean?

A book review with an Adar / Purim theme

@sharrona.bsky.social's *Mask* from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social is a fun and insightful read!

open.substack.com/pub/elirubin...

The Cristol Lecture at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, TX

"Modernity as Rupture: From Kabbalah to Freud"

cosponsored by TCU - John V. Roach Honors College.
📅 March 5 | ⏰ 6:30 p.m. | 📍 Bass Conference Center, 2925 Princeton Street
Register here: fs11.formsite.com/sF1Om1/m3x05...

The Cristol Lecture at Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, TX

"Modernity as Rupture: From Kabbalah to Freud"

cosponsored by TCU - John V. Roach Honors College.
📅 March 5 | ⏰ 6:30 p.m. | 📍 Bass Conference Center, 2925 Princeton Street
Register here: fs11.formsite.com/sF1Om1/m3x05...

Inside and Outside the Chabad Tradition Following in the scholarly footsteps of Professors Naftali Loewenthal and Elliot Wolfson

Inside and Outside the Chabad Tradition

Following in the scholarly footsteps of Professors Naftali Loewenthal and Elliot Wolfson
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Inside and Outside the Chabad Tradition Following in the scholarly footsteps of Professors Naftali Loewenthal and Elliot Wolfson

Inside and Outside the Chabad Tradition

Following in the scholarly footsteps of Professors Naftali Loewenthal and Elliot Wolfson
open.substack.com/pub/elirubin...

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity | Stanford University Press Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin ar...

SALE! 30% OFF

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity @stanfordpress.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/religi...

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity | Stanford University Press Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin ar...

SALE! 30% OFF

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity @stanfordpress.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/religi...

Lovely to read this tribute to Prof Ada Rapoport-Albert z"l from one of her research students @uclhjs.bsky.social

Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel (1941-2016)

Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert (1945-2020)

Two Teachers Who Shaped Me: Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel and Prof. Ada Rapoport-Albert
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