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Galili
Shahar

University of Florida
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship

Research Topic

The Un-Sacred Language: Metaphysics of the New Hebrew and the Dialectic Secularization

Bio

Galili Shahar is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Florida. His fields of research are German cultural history, philosophy and theatre, and German-Jewish and Israeli literature.

Fellowship

2009–2010
Secularism and Its Discontents: Rethinking an Organizing Principle of Modern Jewish Life

Engaging in a critical analysis of secularization, the secular, and secularism, and their effects on religious, intellectual, and political life.

Events

A Conversation with Moshe Idel about His New Book: Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth Century Thought
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
A Conversation with Moshe Idel about His New Book: Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth Century Thought
Featuring: Moshe Idel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp; David Myers, University of California, L.A.; Galili Shahar, University of Florida