Dr. Daniel Reiser is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought at Hertzog College in Jerusalem, Israel. He specializes in Hasidic philosophy, modern mysticism, and theology during the Shoah. His book, Vision as a Mirror (Cherub Press, 2014) was awarded the World Union of Jewish Studies Prize for the Best Book in Jewish Thought. Dr. Reiser’s book, Sermons from the Years of Rage (The Jewish Press, 2017) was awarded the 2018 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. His other books are Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (De Gruyter, 2018); Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue: The Yiddish Sermons of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2020); and (co-edited with Dan Seeman and Ariel Evan Mayse) Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (State University of New York Press, 2021).
PhD Institution: Hebrew University
Research Topic during the Fellowship: Publishing a Critical and Annotated Edition of Rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapira’s Sermons and Writings during the Holocaust
Current Position: Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Jewish Thought, Herzog College