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Tzahi Weiss
Tzahi Weiss received his PhD from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is a postdoctoral Fellow at Shalem. During the 2009-2010 academic year Weiss was Rothschild’s Post Doctoral Fellow in the Divinity School at The University of Chicago, Chicago IL. Between 2006 and 2009 Weiss served as a Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, and a Lecturer in the 'Revivim Honors Program for the Teaching of Jewish Studies Teachers', also at the Hebrew University. From 2008 to 2009 Weiss served as Lecturer in the Department for the literature of the Jewish People at Bar Ilan University. As well as being the recipient of a Shalem Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Current Research
Jewish Education; Modern Hebrew Literature; Jewish Literature of Late Antiquity; Jewish Mysticism.
Bibliography
Books
Tzahi Weiss, Death of the Shekhinah in S. Y. Agnon’s Oeuvre: a Reading in Four Stories and their Sources, Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan (2009) [Hebrew].
Select Publications
“Some Short Remarks on the Syrian Context of The Book of Creation”, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 22 (2010) [Hebrew] (in print)
“On the Matter of Language: Creation of the World from Letters and Jacques Lacan's Perception of Letters as Real”, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 17 (2009), pp. 101-115 [English]
“S. Y. Agnon’s ‘Ido and Einam’ and the death of the myth”, Reshit 1 (2009), pp. 261-277. [Hebrew]
“The 'Akedah' Complex and Aharon Appelfeld's Attitude towards Christian Metaphysics”, Aharon Appelfeld: Readings, Lipsker Avidov, Sagi Avi and Tzahi Weiss (eds.), Ramat-Gan, 2009, (19 p.) [Hebrew] (Forthcoming).
“Different Traditions of Creation of the World from Letters”, Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical texts 17 (2008), pp.169-200. [Hebrew.]
"Teaching the Bible as Misreading", Hagut: Studies in Jewish Educational Thought 8 (2008), 141-163. [Hebrew]
“The Perception of the Letters in the Samaritan 'Memar Marqah' and in its Equivalents in Rabbinic Sources and in the Book of Creation”, Jewish Studies 43 (2007), pp. 89-129 [Hebrew].
“The Yearning for Eastern Europe”, Michael’s Book: Between This Time to Those Days - A Festschrift for Michael Bahat, Sagi Avi (ed.), Tel-Aviv 2007, pp. 525-543 [Hebrew].
“A Condition of Orphanhood”, Eretz Acheret 31 (2006), 18-21 [Hebrew].
“The Shekhinah’s Broken Wing”, Eretz Acheret 40 (2008), 18-21 [Hebrew].
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