Ben Gurion University
Skepticism and Heterodoxy in Jewish-Italian Thought in the Early Modern Period (Ben Gurion Univ. Beer Sheva, Geschichte)
Ahuvia Goren completed his M.A. studies at the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University in 2018. His doctoral dissertation, conducted at Ben-Gurion University as part of the ERC project “Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe,” examines doubt and skepticism in early modern Italian Jewish thought, drawing on perspectives from the cultural history of knowledge, religious studies, and the history of science. He held a fellowship at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His current research focuses on reactions to atomist, Cartesian, and Harveian ideas among German, Italian, and Dutch Jewish thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His work has been published in journals such as Renaissance Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, Zion, Tarbiz, and Aleph.