We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

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"Rubin's book offers an exciting new way of thinking about Jewish modernity, making this one of the most original and interesting books in Jewish Studies of our time." —Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College

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I’ll be so sad to see him go…but we’ll always have the episodes…

“the fascination of knowledge is the meaning of life” yesterday, it was announced that Melvyn Bragg will, after a run of 27 years, no longer present BBC Radio4's In Our Time today, you should read this interview with him in the @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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today's a good day to remind everyone that this exists Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was not only a man of bravery, but a man of words and stories that transport their readers into the past and future www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DY...

for anyone who wants to know more about Zelda (which should be everyone who follows me), take a listen to this excellent conversation between Tzipora Weinberg and Baila Olidort open.spotify.com/episode/6uaz...

for anyone who wants to know more about Zelda (which should be everyone who follows me), take a listen to this excellent conversation between Tzipora Weinberg and Baila Olidort open.spotify.com/episode/6uaz...

after over three years of collective work, our anthology of hasidic stories is almost out! 800 pp of stories from 1814 to 2022, transl. from hebrew and yiddish, with a book-length intro to hasidic history and lit., as part of the national library series! wydawnictwo.ossolineum.pl/produkt/opow...

@uclhjs.bsky.social proud of its graduate!!

“For scholars of Jewish mysticism, theology, and modern religion, or anyone interested in deepening his or her understanding and appreciation for the profound theology and history of Chabad, Rubin’s work is essential reading.” traditiononline.org/review-kabba...

“For scholars of Jewish mysticism, theology, and modern religion, or anyone interested in deepening his or her understanding and appreciation for the profound theology and history of Chabad, Rubin’s work is essential reading.” traditiononline.org/review-kabba...

"a rich intellectual portrait of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement" 1/2

"a rich intellectual portrait of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement" 1/2

This was so refreshing and so delightful! Listening to this @jewishideaspod.bsky.social conversation with Prof. Sarah Pessin on ibn Gabirol and friends will also be really helpful to anyone trying to understand chassidus or Kabbalah of any sort open.spotify.com/episode/2XVO...

This was so refreshing and so delightful! Listening to this @jewishideaspod.bsky.social conversation with Prof. Sarah Pessin on ibn Gabirol and friends will also be really helpful to anyone trying to understand chassidus or Kabbalah of any sort open.spotify.com/episode/2XVO...

just finished drafting my paper for the forthcoming @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference

today's a good day to remind everyone that this exists Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was not only a man of bravery, but a man of words and stories that transport their readers into the past and future www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DY...

My contribution to the 4th of July discourse www.chabad.org/therebbe/art...

Good news! The EBook edition of Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity is now available with a 50% discount This is for the month of July only, and you must order direct from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Use RUPTURE20 for a 20% discount on the hardcover www.sup.org/books/religi...

Good news! The EBook edition of Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity is now available with a 50% discount This is for the month of July only, and you must order direct from @stanfordpress.bsky.social Use RUPTURE20 for a 20% discount on the hardcover www.sup.org/books/religi...

Banner year for @uclhjs.bsky.social in In geveb! This year’s list of the top ten most widely-read pieces published this year includes a book review by alum @elirubin.bsky.social and PhD student Tamara Gleason-Friedberg’s interview with me.

Extremely chuffed to see a book forum dedicated to ‘Sources on Jewish Self-Government in the Polish Lands' (2022), in 'Shofar. Journal for Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies' muse.jhu.edu/issue/54964

For readers interested in Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, Sacred Emotions by Leore Sachs-Shmueli argues that negative emotions serve as crucial catalysts for intensifying religious devotion and shaped the rise and cohesion of the Hasidic movement. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/religi...

Today and tomorrow.

“Zalia Ziskind spoke with such heartbreak ... [but] didn't alarm others with talk of gehinnom ... One thing was certain: the gehinnom of this world scared him more than the gehinnom of the next.” —Grade, Sons and Daughters, 639.

I finally finished reading this book. Much more than a novel, it's a profound reflection on perennial quandaries / dissatisfactions that are theological, historical, philosophical, and familial. I'm already ready to start reading it again

We are thrilled to share that Shaul Magid has been named Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence! Magid brings a blend of traditional Jewish learning and innovative critical scholarship to HDS. Learn more here: www.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...

this book is coming out in a month or so and can be pre-ordered now. a piece of mine from 2021, "jewish economic ethics in the neoliberal era (1980-2016)," is excerpted in it, which is pretty cool (and must be some kind of record in terms of time from publication to anthologization).

I'll be at Princeton University for a book talk with Professor Laura Leibman. Join us if you're around!

#CfP: IV International Conference on Jews in Galicia. Histories, Topographies, and Texts in Kraków on October 20-21, 2025 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/en/news/iv-i... Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2025

“Rubin proposes that the Chabad rebbes’ engagement with the mythical rupture of tsimtsum reflects their theological and philosophical way to confront the ruptures of the modern era ... The effect is indeed impressive.

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/rev...

Our book is on its way to publication! “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” is a collection of short stories translated by me & Harriet Murav from Yiddish & Russian, written after WWII by Jewish writers from the Soviet Union. Pub date: Feb 10, 2026 @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/jewish...

This review essay by Wojciech Tworek discusses Eli Rubin's Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism (2025), and its broader implications for the field. ingeveb.org/articles/rev...

“Rubin proposes that the Chabad rebbes’ engagement with the mythical rupture of tsimtsum reflects their theological and philosophical way to confront the ruptures of the modern era ... The effect is indeed impressive.

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2025), receives a generous and critical review from my friend and colleague @wtworek.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/rev...

A wonderful profile / obituary -- Charlie "Buttons" was one of the great personalities of Jewish New York chabad.org/6895826

Oy. ברוך דייו האמת.

I remember him as a Lincoln Square Synagogue fixture some 25 years ago. What a lovely piece!

A wonderful profile / obituary -- Charlie "Buttons" was one of the great personalities of Jewish New York chabad.org/6895826

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity with @elirubin.bsky.social 📅 14 May, 18:00 BST 💻 Online www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-je...

Tomorrow: Eli Rubin on his 'Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity. An Existential History of Chabad History' Response: Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth) Wednesday, 14 MAY, 6 pm GMT (London time) Sign up: polishjewishstudies.co.uk/2025/04/01/1... @elirubin.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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Tomorrow!

So glad to see two reviews of *Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity* in the new issue of the William & Mary Judaic Studies Review t.co/bULZ46OCSP cc @stanfordpress.bsky.social