Dr. Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Chief Editor of the ‘Challenges of Democracy’ book series for the Rubinstein Center at Reichman University, and a Senior Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Persico was the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies for three years and has taught for eight years in Tel Aviv University. His fields of expertise include the liberal order, Jewish modern identity, Contemporary Spirituality and Jewish fundamentalism. His first book, The Jewish Meditative Tradition (Hebrew) was published by Tel Aviv University Press in 2016, and his second book, In God’s Image: How Western Civilization Was Shaped by a Revolutionary Idea was published by Yedioth in 2021, and will soon be published by NYU Press in 2025. His third book, Liberalism: its Roots, Values and Crises (Hebrew) was published by Dvir in 2024 and will be published by NZZ Libro in German in 2025.
This blog will present English articles. His main blog, at tomerpersico.com is the most popular blog in Hebrew on religion and spirituality.
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