Naftali Loewenthal is a

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

academic from

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, and a member of the

Chabad Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (), is an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic dynasty. Chabad is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, particularly for its outreach activities. It is one of the largest Hasidic group ...

Hasidic Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...

community. Loewenthal's main area of study is

Hasidism Hasidism, sometimes spelled Chassidism, and also known as Hasidic Judaism (Ashkenazi Hebrew: חסידות ''Ḥăsīdus'', ; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group that arose as a spiritual revival movement in the territory of contem ...

and

Jewish Mysticism Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's ''Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism'' (1941), distinguishes between different forms of mysticism across different eras of Jewish history. Of these, Kabbalah, which emerged in 1 ...

, he serves as a professor in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

, and the director of the Chabad Research Unit, a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the

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. Loewenthal is noted as the author of ''Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School'' (1990), an important work on the scholarship of Hasdisim; he has also authored ''Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays in Habad Thought and History'' (2019) as well as many scholarly articles and publications on the Chabad mysticism. One key area of Loewenthal's research has been the topic of the history of

women.Wodziński, M. (2013). Women and Hasidism: A “Non-Sectarian” Perspective. ''Jewish History'', 27(2-4), 399-434.

Selected publications

Books

* Loewenthal, N. (1990). ''Communicating the infinite: The emergence of the Habad school''. University of Chicago Press. * Loewenthal, N. (2020). ''Hasidism beyond modernity: Essays in Habad thought and history''. The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.

Other publications

* Loewenthal, N. (1987). The Apotheosis of Action in Early Habad. ''Da’at'', 18, 104-130. * Loewenthal, N. (1994). Hasidism, Mysticism and Reality. ''Jewish Quarterly'', 41(1), 52-53. * Loewenthal, N. (1998). Contemporary Habad and the paradox of redemption, in Ivry, A. L., et al. (eds) ''Perspectives on Jewish thought and mysticism''. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers (pp. 381–402). * Loewenthal, N. (1999). Women and the dialectic of spirituality in Hasidism. In Immanuel Etkes, David Assaf, Israel Bartal, Elchanan Reiner (Eds.) ''Within Hasidic Circles: Studies in Hasidism in Memory of Mordecai Wilensky'' (pp. 7–65). Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute. * Loewenthal, N. (2000). 'Daughter/wife of Hasid' or 'Hasidic woman'? ''Jewish Studies'', 40, 21-28. * Loewenthal, N. (2005). Spirituality experience for Hasidic youths and girls in pre-Holocaust Europe-a confluence of tradition and modernity. In Adam Mintz, Lawrence Schiffman (Eds.) ''Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law'' (pp. 407–454). KTAV Publishing House. * Loewenthal, N. (2013). From ladies auxiliary to shluhot network: Women's activism in twentieth-century Habad. In Israel Bartal et al. (Eds.) ''A Touch of Grace: Studies in Ashkenazi Culture, Women's History, and the Languages of the Jews'' (pp. 69–93). Zalman Shazar Center. * Loewenthal N. (2013). "Midrash in Habad Hasidism" in Fishbane M. and J. Weinberg (Eds) ''Midrash Unbound: Transformations and Innovations'', Liverpool University Press (pp. 429-455).

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Selected publications

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