Dr. Uriel Gellman
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Dr.Uriel Gellman- CURRICULUM VITAE
The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry
The Marcell and Maria Roth Chair in the History and Culture of Polish Jewry
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, 5290002 Israel
Phone: +972-545469609; e-mail: uriel.gellman@biu.ac.il ; uriel.gellman@gmail.com
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2006-2012 – PhD with distinction, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of the History of the Jewish People
2003-2005 – Master’s Degree, Summa Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of The History of the Jewish People
2000-2002 – Bachelor’s Degree, Magna Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of The History of the Jewish People and the Program for Outstanding Students in the School of History
Post Doctorate:
2013 – The Ephraim Urbach Post-Doctorate, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
2011-2012 – Tel Aviv University, The department of Jewish History and The Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations
2011-2014 – Summers, visiting scholar, Simon Dubnow Institute, Leipzig Germany
Professional Appointments
Since 2014 – Faculty Member. The Department of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University
Since 2020 – Holder of The Marcell and Maria Roth Chair in the History and Culture of Polish Jewry, Bar Ilan University
2015-2023 – Steering committee member (Chair since 2020) The Israeli Inter-University Academic Partnership in Russian and East European Studies (IUAP)
Since 2018 - Board member: Jewish Galicia and Bukovina (JGB)
2016-2018 – Board member, The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)
2010-2013 – Adjunct instructor, Jewish Studies program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012-2013 – Adjunct instructor, The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2007-2011 – Book Review Editor: Zion – A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History, The Historical Society of Israel
2004-2009 – Research Assistant, The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel-Aviv University
2005-2006 – Teaching Assistant, Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Major Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2022, 2004: Senior Fellow, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS), Universität Hamburg (spring semester, summer)
2022: Partner in research grant from the Polish Ministry of Education and Science, National Program for the Development of Humanities (NPRH)
2020: The Zalman Shazar Prize for Jewish History
2017: Partner in grant for the Inter University Graduate Program in Russian and East European Studies. Granted by The Humanities Fund for the years 2017-2021 (BIU representative).
2016-2019: The Israel Science Foundation (ISF). Project Title: The Belz-Munkatsh Controversy: Jewish Orthodox Fundamentalism in the Inter-War Period
2017: Outstanding lecturer award 2017, Bar Ilan University
2017: The Ezra Mendelson and Jonathan Frankel Prize for an outstanding researcher, The Historical Society of Israel
2012: Excellence prize for dissertation, The Authority for Research Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012: Research grant, Olga and William Lakritz Fund
2010-2011: The Moritz and Charlotte Warburg Fund prize in Jewish Studies
2008-2011: Full Scholarship: The Rotenstreich Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students in the Humanities – The Israel Council for Higher Education, The Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC)
2007: Full Scholarship from the Canadian friends of Hebrew University for exceptional doctoral student
2007-2008: Doctoral scholarship, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
2006-2008: Scholarship from the Beth Sholem Aleichem, Tel Aviv, for the Culture of Eastern European Jewry
2004-2007: Scholarships from the Nevzlin Center for Researching the History of Eastern European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2005: The Prof. Abraham Kahanah Prize for Excellence for MA Thesis
2005: Prize of the Shlomo Fund, in Name of Shlomo and Bella Bartel
2003-2006: Scholarship for Outstanding students, the Institute for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University
2001-2002: Scholarship from the Program for Outstanding Students in the School of History, Hebrew University
Research
Research Interests
- Eastern European Jewry
- Hasidim
- Haskala
- Orthodoxy
Publications
Uriel Gellman – List of Publications
Books:
The Emergence of Hasidism in Poland (The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem 2018) link
Coauthor of: Hasidism: A New History (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2018) link
Sefer Hasidim: A Lost Anti-Hasidic Polemic (The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, Jerusalem 2007) link
Books, Editing:
Reuven Gafni, Yohai Ben Ghedalia, Uriel Gellman (eds.), High Above All, The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue and the Hasidic Community in Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Yad Ben Zvi 2016) link
David Assaf Immanuel Etkes and Uriel Gellman (eds.), The Heder: Studies, Documents, Literature and Memoirs (Tel Aviv University, 2009) link
Further publications:
‘Heter Me’ah Rabbanim and the Jewish Orthodox Family in Late 19th-Century Galicia’, Chidushim 26.2 (2024): 123-159 [forthcoming]
Uriel Gellman, Marcin Wodziński, and Gadi Sagiv ‘Hasidic Dynasties: Geo-social Patterns of Marriage Strategies’, Comparative Studies in Society and History (2024) [forthcoming]
‘The Gaon and the Hasid: The Image of the Vilna Gaon in Hasidic Memory’, in: Lara Lempertiene, Shaul Stampfer, and Marcin Wodziński (eds.), Religious Life of Lithuanian Jews, Brill 2024 [forthcoming]
‘Urban Hasidism: The Case of Kraków’, in: Levi Cooper, Ariel Evan Mayse, and Zvi Mark (eds.), Maor Vashamesh: History, Philosophy, Lore and Legacy, Ramat Gan 2024, 19-42 [forthcoming]
‘The Hasidic Tsadik as a Supra-Communal Leader: The Interrogation of Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl’, Zion 89 (2024): 507-532 link
‘Magic in Time of Cholera: Between Jews and Christians in Eastern Europe’, Jewish Social Studies 29:2 (2024): 60–91 link
‘Reciting ‘Pitum ha-Qetoret’ to Halt a Plague: The Evolution of a Ritual’ Kabbalah 58 (2024): 263-284 link
‘Compelling Legends: Narrating Reality in Shivhei Habesht’, European Journal of Jewish Studies 18 (2024), 55-78 link
Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, and Gadi Sagiv ‘Marriage, Leadership, and Dynasties in Hasidism: Big Data Approach’, Religion (2024) link
Uriel Gellman and Menachem Keren-Kratz, ‘The Battle Over Hasidic Radicalism: The Belz-Munkács Controversy’, Jewish Studies Quarterly (JSQ) 30:3 (2023): 304-327 link
‘Hasidic Communities in the Land of Israel in the Nineteenth Century’, Polin 35 (2023): 27-50 link
Extended and updated Hebrew version: Historia, Hagut, Realia 10 (2024): 7-41.
‘A Private Life of a Communal Leader: The Autobiography of Arie Leib Feinstein (1821-1903)’, Zutot 20 (2023): 119-134 link
‘The Rabbinate and Hasidism in Late Nineteenth Century Galicia’, Zion 87 (2022): 213-246 link
‘Popular Religion and Modernity: Jewish Magic Books in Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century’, Polin 33 (2020): 185-203 link
'Stories', in: Marcin Wodziński (ed.), Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives (Rutgers University Press, 2019): 60-74 link
'Mitnagedim', in: Marcin Wodziński (ed.), Studying Hasidism: Sources, Methods, Perspectives (Rutgers University Press, 2019): 75-90 link
‘Between Worlds: The Miserable Life of an Itinerant Preacher on the Eve of Modernity’, Jewish Quarterly Review, 109 (2019): 54-83 link
‘Becoming a Movement: Early Nineteenth-Century Hasidism in the Eyes of R. Kalonymus Kalman Epstein of Kraków’, Modern Judaism 38 (2018): 307–327 link
Uriel Gellman, and Marcin Wodziński, ‘Expansion of Hasidic Leadership: Stages, Borders, Dynamics’, Historical Atlas of Hasidism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018): 34-51 link
‘Chasydyzm Lelów w Ziemi Izraela’, Wieża Dawida: Chasydzi Lelowscy, edited by Michał Galas, and Mirosław Skrzypczyk (Kraków: Austeria, 2018): 29-37 link
‘“Pele Yoetz”: A New Source for the History of Przysucha Hasidism’, Kabblah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 37 (2017): 303-320 link
'Hasidim in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century', High Above All - The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue and the Hasidic Community in Jerusalem (Jerusalem: Yad Ben Zvi, 2016): 11-30 link
Marcin Wodziński and Uriel Gellman, 'Toward a New Geography of Hasidism', Jewish History 27 (2013): 171-199 link
‘The Great Wedding in Uściług: The Making of a Hasidic Myth’, Tarbiz 80 (2013): 567-594 link
‘An Authors' Guide: Authorship of Hasidic Compendium’, Zutot 9 (2013): 1-12 link
'The Scholarly Elite in Lithuania: Ideology and Reality', in I. Luria (ed.), History of the Jews in Russia, vol. 2 (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2012): 113-123 link
Russian version: У. Гелльман. ‘Ученая элита литовского еврейства: действительность и идеалы’, История еврейского народа в России. От разделов Польши до падения российской империи. 1772-1917 (Jerusalem 2012): 147-163
‘Israel Baal Shem Tov’, Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Ed. David Biale. New York: Oxford University Press (2013) link
'Two Letters on the Life of the Ba'al Shem Tov', Zion, 76 (2011): 219-234 link
'The Heder in Eastern Europe: An Annotated Bibliography', The Heder: Studies, Documents, Literature and Memoirs (Tel Aviv University Press, 2009): 525-566 link
'David Eliyahu Rabinowitz Teomim’, The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Gershon David Hundert (Editor in Chief), Yale University Press, 2008 link
Review of Marcin Wodziński, Haskalah and Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland: A History of Conflict, Oxford 2005, Galed, 21 (2007): 187-192 link
Last Updated Date : 09/10/2024
