Immanuel Etkes

Immanuel Etkes (born 1939) is emeritus professor of history of the Jewish people at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] His research focuses on religious and cultural movements among Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[2] Allan Nadler describes his biographies of the Vilna Gaon, the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, and Rabbi Israel Salanter, as "definitive."[3] He was awarded the Bialik Prize in 2010.

Etkes was born in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a Religious Zionist environment[3] and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. In 2010 he participated in the protest movement against the displacement of Palestinian residents from Sheikh Jarrah.[4] The anti-settlement activist Dror Etkes is one of his four children.

Books in English translation

  • Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement: Seeking the Torah of Truth. Jewish Publication Society, 1993.
  • The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and His Image. University of California Press, 2002.
  • The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader. UPNE, 2012.
  • Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The Origins of Chabad Hasidism. Brandeis University Press, 2014.

References

  1. ^ Immanuel Etkes. Brandeis University Press.
  2. ^ Faculty page (In Hebrew). Hebew University of Jerusalem.
  3. ^ a b Nadler, Allan. Like Dreamers. Jewish Review of Books. Winter 2021.
  4. ^ ירושלים: מרצים בכירים מארגנים צעדת מחאה בשייח' ג'ראח. Makor Rishon. May 25, 2010.
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