Prof. Boaz Huss

Boaz Huss is the Aron Bernstein Chair in Jewish History at the dept. of Jewish Thought and the chairperson of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at the Ben-Gurion University. His research interests include history of Kabbalah, Contemporary Kabbalah, Western Esotericism, New Age Culture and New Religious Movements in Israel. His recent publications include The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact (Bialik Press, 2021, together with Julie Chajes), Mystifying Kabbalah: Academic Scholarship, National Theology, and New Age Spirituality, Oxford University Press, 2020, and The Zohar: Reception and Impact, Liverpool University Press, 2016.