Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer (17 May 1927 - 22 February 1992) was a Jewish scholar of Jewish mysticism. Schatz Uffenheimer was a student of
Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem () (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kaballah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish Myst ...
.
Biography
Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer was born in Poland and raised in
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. She received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. at the
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
in Jerusalem where she was later employed as a Professor of Jewish mysticism.
[Kook, Abraham Isaac. Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, essays, letters, and poems. No. 7. Paulist Press, 1978.] Her main research was in the realm of Hasidism, particularly regarding the ''Maggid'' Rabbi
Dov Ber of Mezeritch
Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch ( yi, דֹּב בֶּער מִמֶּזְרִיטְשְׁ; died December 1772 OS), also known as the '' Maggid of Mezeritch'', was a disciple of Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov), the founder of Hasidi ...
' and his students. She also wrote about Rabbi
Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as Rav Kook, and also known by the acronym HaRaAYaH (), was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine. He is considered to be one ...
, and many other figures in modern
Jewish Mysticism. She and her students collected hundreds of copies of manuscripts of the
Zohar in order to prepare a multi-volume critical edition, but due to her premature death, the project was never actualized. After her death much of her library, including the Zohar manuscript copies, and copies of manuscripts of Rabbi Kook, became part of the
Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem () (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982), was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kaballah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish Myst ...
Collection at the
National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא ...
.
Publications
Books
* Hasidism as mysticism, Quietistic elements in eighteenth century Hasidic thought, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1993.
* מגיד דבריו ליעקב, למגיד דב בער ממזריטש, מהדורה ביקורתית על פי כתבי-יד עם מבוא, פירוש, הערות ומפתחות, ירושלים: הוצאת ספרים ע"ש י"ל מאגנס, תשל"ו-1976 (מהדורה שנייה מורחבת ומתוקנת: תש"ן-1990).
Other
* Schatz-Uffenheimer, R. (1987). Maharal's Conception of Law: Antithesis to Natural Law Theory. The Jewish Law Annual, 6, 109–125.
* Schatz-Uffenheimer, Rivka. "Self-redemption in Hasidic thought." In Types of Redemption. Contributions to the Theme of the Study-Conference Held at Jerusalem 14 to 19 July 1968, pp. 207–212. Brill, 1970.
* Schatz-Uffenheimer, R. (1985). Confession on the Brink of the Crematoria. The Jerusalem Quarterly, 34, 126–41.
* Schatz-Uffenheimer, R. (1963). Die Stellung des Menschen zu Gott und Welt in Bubers Darstellung des Chassidismus. Martin Buber, 275–302.
See also
*
Rachel Elior
Rachel Elior (born 28 December 1949) is an Israeli professor of Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. Her principal subjects of research has been Hasidism and the history of early Jewish mysticism.
Academ ...
References
Burials at Har HaMenuchot
Brazilian Jews
1992 deaths
1927 births
20th-century Polish Jews
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