Moshe idel biography examples

Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism

Moshe Idel (Hebrew: משה אידל; born January 19, 1947) is a Romanian-born Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism.

Moshe idel biography examples

He is Emeritus Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Life and scholarship

Born in Târgu Neamț, Romania, on 19 January 1947.

Idel was a precocious child, with a passion for reading which made him read all the books in the town, cooperative, then High school Library, in addition to buying more books with the money earned by singing at weddings.^[1] Although the Holocaust did not directly affect the Jewish population of Târgu Neamț, they were affected by the so-called “population displacements”.

In 1963 he immigrated with his family to Israel, settling in Haifa.^[2]

Enrolled at the Hebrew University, he studied under Shlomo Pines. After earning his doctorate with a thesis on