Yotam Yzraely
I am a PhD candidate at The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archeology,
Tel Aviv University. I'm studying the intersections between politics, law, and religion in early 20th century Jewish thought, and am interested in thinkers who, prior to 1948, developed novel religious critiques of power, coercion, and state authority, both from within the Zionist movement and outside it.
My dissertation, supervised by Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum, is calling this political-theological critique “Prophetic Politics”, alluding to biblical prophecy’s opposition to the reification of temporal political power.
I'm focusing on the works of Gustav Landauer, Martin Buber, and A.D. Gordon, who critiqued the legitimacy of the state, and aimed to offer new conceptual frameworks for thinking about the relations between politics, law, ethics and religion, through a Jewish lens.
I'm also interested in the sociology of religion, ritual theory, post-secularism, and future theologies of technology, and have written on these topics as well.
In 2022 I received a fellowship at the Cardozo Law School Seminar on Jewish Legal and Political Thought, and in 2023 was a fellow at the Leo Beack Institute, Berlin.
Tel Aviv University. I'm studying the intersections between politics, law, and religion in early 20th century Jewish thought, and am interested in thinkers who, prior to 1948, developed novel religious critiques of power, coercion, and state authority, both from within the Zionist movement and outside it.
My dissertation, supervised by Prof. Menachem Lorberbaum, is calling this political-theological critique “Prophetic Politics”, alluding to biblical prophecy’s opposition to the reification of temporal political power.
I'm focusing on the works of Gustav Landauer, Martin Buber, and A.D. Gordon, who critiqued the legitimacy of the state, and aimed to offer new conceptual frameworks for thinking about the relations between politics, law, ethics and religion, through a Jewish lens.
I'm also interested in the sociology of religion, ritual theory, post-secularism, and future theologies of technology, and have written on these topics as well.
In 2022 I received a fellowship at the Cardozo Law School Seminar on Jewish Legal and Political Thought, and in 2023 was a fellow at the Leo Beack Institute, Berlin.
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