Wojciech Tworek is the acting Head of the Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław. His first book, “Eternity Now: Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady and Temporality” (SUNY 2019) examines the teachings of the first Chabad rebbe. His forthcoming books include a monograph on interwar Chabad (McGill-Queen's University Press 2026), and an anthology of Hasidic stories edited with Marcin Wodziński (Ossolineum 2025).
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