Publications

Leore Sachs-Shmueli. Sacred Emotions: Fear of Sin  in Early Hasidism. Stanford University Press, 2025.

Eli Rubin. Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity:  An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism. Stanford University Press, 2025.

Ariel Evan Mayse. Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism. Stanford University Press, 2024.

Ellen Bernstein. Toward a Holy Ecology: Reading the Song of Songs in the Age of Climate Crisis. Monkfish Publishing, 2024.

Yehoshua November. The Concealment of Endless Light. Orison Books, 2024.

Don Seeman and Devaka Premawardhana. Between Life and Thought: Existential Anthropology and the Study of Religion. University of Toronto Press, 2024.

Don Seeman, Daniel Reiser, Ariel Evan Mayse,  Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira. State University of New York Press, 2021.

Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, eds. Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World.  Brandeis University Press, 2020.

Jonathan Garb. A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day.  Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Ariel Evan Mayse. Speaking Infinities: God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Naftali Loewenthal. Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays in Habad Thought and History.  The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2020.

Moshe Halbertal. Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism. Yale University Press, 2020. 

Moshe Idel. Vocal Rites and Broken Theologies: Cleaving to Vocables in R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov's Mysticism.  Fordham University Press, 2019.

Aryeh Solomon. Spiritual Education: The Educational Theory and Practice of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Herder & Herder, 2019.

Philip Wexler. Jewish Spirituality and Social Transformation: Hasidism and Society. State University of New York Press, 2019.

Philip Wexler, Eli Rubin, and Michael Wexler. Social Vision: The Lubavitcher Rebbe's Transformative Paradigm for the World. Herder & Herder, 2019.

Ada Rapoport-Albert. Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018.

Elaine Leeder. My Life with Lifers: Lessons for a Teacher: Humanity Has No Bars. Terra NovaBooks, 2012.