Description: Sponsored by the Gershom Scholem Center for the Study of Jewish Mysticism.
Brief description: Joseph Dan, Born 1935, studied at the Hebrew University, 1964 Ph.D; since 1982 Gershom Scholem Professor for Kabbala; 1993-2002 Guest Professor for Jewish Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin, since 2002 Professor emeritus.Peter Schafer, Born 1943; 1968 PhD; since 1998 Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Princeton University; since 2005 the Director of Princeton's Program in Judaic Studies.