Avraham Oriah Kelman

Avraham Oriah Kelman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. His work engages with Jewish intellectual and cultural history in the late medieval and early modern periods, from Spain through the Middle East to Central and Eastern Europe. His dissertation, Diasporic Mysticism: Land and Knowledge in Early Modern Kabbalah from the Middle East to Central Europe, tackles the relations between the production of knowledge and spatial imagination and experience, as it played out in the writings and practices of early modern kabbalists in the Middle East and Europe. His articles were published in various academic journals, and he is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume of Gershom Scholem’s lectures, As Messianism Turns to Heresy: The Regenstein Chair Lectures on Lurianic Kabbalah and Shabbatai Tzevi at Hebrew Union College Cincinnati, 1966.