Editors
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics (time, mereology, and trope theory), and is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Spinoza’s Labyrinths: Essays on His Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He won the ACLS Burkhardt, NEH, and Humboldt fellowships for his next major book project: Spinoza and German Idealism: A Metaphysical Dialogue.
James Theodore Robinson
James Theodore Robinson is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and History of Judaism in the Divinity School and the College, and Dean of the Divinity School. He is the author or editor of 7 books, including Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes, The Book of the Soul of Man (Mohr Siebeck, 2007) andAsceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy: The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Salmon b. Yeroham on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) (E.J. Brill, 2012); The Cultures of Maimonideanism (edited, E. J. Brill, 2009); Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms (edited with Aaron Hughes, Indiana University Press, 2019); Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth (edited with Josef Stern and Yoni Shemesh, The University of Chicago Press, 2019).
Advisory Board
Avishai Bar-Asher
Avishai Bar-Asher is the Sol Rosenblum Chair in Jewish History and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His scholarship centers on the history of Jewish esotericism, from the Hekhalot literature and Sefer Yeṣirah to medieval mysticism, Kabbalah, and its later developments. His book Journeys of the Soul: Concepts and Imageries of Paradise in Medieval Kabbalah (Magness Press, 2019) received the Matanel Prize for Best Book in Jewish Thought, and in 2025 he was awarded the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research.
Resianne Fontaine
Resianne Fontaine is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam, NL. Her Ph D (1986) was on Abraham Ibn Daud’s Ha-Emunah ha-Ramah. Her publications are in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy and science and include critical editions of Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Otot ha-Shamayim and Judah ben Solomon, Midrash ha-Hokhmah. She is co-editor (together with Reimund Leicht) of the journal Aleph. Historical Studies in Science & Judaism.
Marty J. Gross
Marty J. Gross is president of the Martin J. Gross Family Foundation. The Foundation enhances scholarship by supporting the publication of scholarly books, contributes to conservation and digitization projects in major libraries such as the Bodleian Library and extends scholarship funds for post-doctorate studies to major universities. The Foundation is funding the Gross Library of Jewish Philosophy. Gross is the founder and president of Sandalwood Securities and has authored numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Foreign Affairs and other renowned financial publications.
Yehuda Halper
Yehuda Halper is Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of about 50 academic articles and two monographs: Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato and Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge. He is currently directing the Israel Science Foundation, Research Grant #622/22: “Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Explanation of Foreign Terms and the Foundations of Philosophy in Hebrew.”
Steven Harvey
Steven Harvey is Professor Emeritus of Jewish and Islamic Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University and President of the Commission for Jewish Philosophy of the Société internationale pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM). He has published extensively on medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, with special focus on the influence of the Islamic philosophers on Jewish thought and on Averroes’ commentaries on Aristotle. Since 2019, he has been Senior Advisor to Katja Krause’s Research Group, “Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body,” MPIWG, Berlin. He is co-editor of the volume, The Popularization of Philosophy in Medieval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity (Brepols 2022).
Warren Zev Harvey
Warren Zev Harvey is professor emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught since 1977. He is the author of many studies on medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, including Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998). He was an EMET Prize laureate in the Humanities in 2009.
Charles H. Manekin
Charles H. Manekin (PhD, Columbia) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. His work focuses on medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, especially the history of logic among Jews. He has authored books on Gersonides and Maimonides, translated medieval Jewish philosophers, and edited scholarly collections. He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaboration Grant for translating and updating Moritz Steinschneider’s The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages, with two volumes published. He is also part of an international team that was awarded a European Research Council Synergy Grant for research on medieval theories of fallacies.
Sarah Stroumsa
Sarah Stroumsa is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she served as Vice-Rector (2003-6) and as Rector (2008-12) of the University. She is currently President of The Society for the Study of the Medieval Judeo-Arabic Cultures. She is a member of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The American Philosophical Society, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an associate member of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
Raquel Ukeles
Raquel Ukeles is the Head of Collections of the National Library of Israel; from 2010-2020, she was Curator of the Islam and Middle East Collection. Ukeles is responsible for the overall development of all the Library’s collections and for digital, cultural and educational initiatives based on the NLI collections as well as in partnership with other institutions. With an academic background in Islamic and Jewish studies (PhD, Harvard, 2006), Ukeles has published and taught on Jewish intellectual history, Arab culture in Israeli society, Jewish and Islamic traditions, and the role of national libraries today.
Tanja Werthmann
Dr. Tanja Werthmann specializes in medieval Jewish philosophy and mysticism in the context of Islamic and Greek philosophy. She is a faculty member in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Werthmann studied Philosophy and Musicology at the University of Heidelberg and completed her PhD in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She was awarded the Shlomo Pines Prize for Outstanding Young Scholars.