Jonatan Meir

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2011 Kreitman Foundation Post-Doctorate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2008–2011 PhD, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Thesis: ‘Imagined Hasidism: Satire, Reality and the Concept of the Book in the Anti- Hasidic Writings of Joseph Perl (With an Annotated Critical Edition of Sefer Megale Temirin) Approved with highest honors (Summa cum Laude). Supervisor: Professor Israel Bartal.
2004–2007 Master, Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Approved with highest honors

Current Position
August 2015– present Full Professor (with tenure)
Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Previous Position
October 2011–2015 Associate Professor (first appointment)
Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University

Fellowships & Research Grants (selection)
2013-2017 Grant - Israeli Science Foundation (ISF): A Critical Edition of Sefer Shivhei ha-Besht
2015 Visiting Scholar (December 2015), Faculty of Letters, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Tokyo, Japan
2015 Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Research Group: Galicia: Literary and Historical Approaches to the Construction of a Jewish Place
2012–2015 Alon Fellowship, Israeli Academy of Sciences, Israel
2014 Grant - German Israeli Foundation for Science (GIF Young). Project: 'The Jewish Enlightenment and Mesmerism'
2014 Visiting Scholar (October 2014), Faculty of Letters, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Tokyo, Japan–
2013 Grant - Israeli Science Foundation (ISF): Publication of a book
2010–2011 Kreitman Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Advisor: Prof. Boaz Huss
2009 Natalie and Mendel Racolin Memorial Fellowship, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
2008–2010 Canadian Fellowship for Doctorate students, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2006–2007 Research Fellowship, Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prizes and Awards (selection)
2011 Bernard M. Bloomfield Memorial Prize for outstanding Doctorate, Hebrew university of Jerusalem
2008 Max Gruenwald Scholarship, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem
2008 The Olga and William Lakritz Prize of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007 Lilian Mendoza Prize, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, and the Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007 Bernard and Frieda Cherick Award, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007 Itshak Averbach Prize, Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, and the Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005 Avraham Kahane Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005 Prof. Moshe Schor Prize, The Center for Research on the History and Culture of Polish Jews, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Supervision of Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
2012–2016 Two Postdoctoral students, six PhD students, and nine MA students
Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Organisation of Scientific Meetings
2016 Member, the Organizing Committee, New Studies in Bratslav Hasidism, International Conference, Van Leer Institute, Israel
2016 Member, the Organizing Committee, Israeli Network for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism (INASWE), International Research Workshop, Haifa University, Israel
2014 Member, the Organizing Committee, Making History Jewish: The Dialectics of Jewish History in the Eastern Europe and in the Land of Israel, International Conference in Honor of Prof. Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
2013 Member, the Organizing Committee, Theosophical Appropriations: Kabbalah, Western Esotericism and the Transformation of Traditions, International Research Workshop, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Commissions of Trust
2016 Scientific Advisory Board, The Azrieli Fellows Program, Social Sciences & Humanities, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Member of the Yad Ben Zvi Institute book prize committee, Jerusalem, Israel
2013–2015 Scientific Advisory Board, Studies on Galicia and Bukovina Jewry, the Hertzl Institute, University of Haifa, Israel
2012–present Editorial Board, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, Los Angeles
 


 

 

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