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J.H.
(Yossi) Chajes
Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought - University of
Haifa
e-mail: chajes@research.haifa.ac.il
J. H. (Yossi) Chajes (Ph.D., Yale University 1999) is the Sir Isaac Wolfson Full Professor
of Jewish Thought in the Department of Jewish History at the University of
Haifa. Chajes has been visiting Erasmus Professor at Queen Mary University
London, visiting professor at the École des hautes
études en sciences sociales
in Paris and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, a senior research
fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
of Goethe University in Frankfurt, and a three-time fellow at the Katz Center
for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Chajes directs
the “Ilanot Project”—a research project devoted to
the previously unstudied genre of visual Kabbalah known as "Ilanot" (kabbalistic trees). Chajes’s pioneering work
has been awarded eight Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants, the Friedenberg
Prize for the outstanding ISF-funded project in the humanities, and two
Volkswagen Foundation grants to develop the digital humanities project “Maps of
God” (www.ilanot.org). His book, The Kabbalistic Tree, was published in late
2022 by PSUP.
For more information on his research activities, see
the following links:
Temi di ricerca
Early modern Jewish cultural history
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