Sam Glauber-Zimra is a PhD candidate in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His dissertation explores Jewish engagement with modern occult currents in early-twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In addition to In geveb, his research has appeared in Nashim, Jewish Historical Studies, Correspondences, Jewish Thought, Tradition, and Kabbalah, and he is the co-editor of Hillel Zeitlin, In the Secret Place of the Soul: Three Essays (Jerusalem: Blima, 2020) [Hebrew]. In 2021–2022, he held the Fellowship in American Jewish Studies at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where he conducted research in the Borukh Rivkin papers.
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