Prof. Moshe Sluhovsky

Moshe Sluhovsky is the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in the Study of French Jewry

And Professor of History emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He got his Ph.D. at Princeton University and held positions at The California Institute  of Technology and UCLA before joining the Hebrew University, where he taught for 30 years. Starting as an early modern Europeanist, specializing in religious history, he then moved to research modern gay and lesbian history, focusing on Germany and France. His current project takes him back to Catholicism: he is interested in the intersection of Radical Orthodox Catholicism with post-modern and post- colonial critiques of the Enlightenment. His main publications include: “Believe not Every Spirit": Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism and Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism (both published by The University of Chicago Press) and the collection Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (Bielefeld: Transcript) . At the Hebrew University he has served as the Chair of the  Department of History and the Institute of History, Chair of Amirim – the University-side Honors’ Program, and as the director of the Lafer Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.