Cedric Cohen-Skalli

Prof. Cedric Cohen-Skalli teaches early modern and modern Jewish philosophy at the University of Haifa. He is the Director of the Bucerius Institute for the Research of Contemporary German History and Society. His field of research is interreligious intellectual history. He has dealt with two main philosophical shifts: the move from medieval philosophy to early modern thought (during the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries), and the shift from early modern to modern thought (during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries). Dr. Cedric Cohen-Skalli has published several books and many articles on diverse intercultural aspects of Jewish thought and literature in the Renaissance and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His intellectual biography of Isaac Abravanel was published in the prestigious “Great Men of the Jewish People” series of the Zalman Shazar Center and was augmented for the Tauber Institute Series for Study of European Jewry (Brandeis University Press). He recently co-edited the volumes Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer (Brill 2022) and Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis Interpretation, Heresy and History (De Gruyter 2024), and just finished and submitted a new book manuscript with the provisional title Jews, Early Modern Empires and Historiography. He is the translator of many works of Freud, Benjamin, Scholem, Idel and Abravanel, and also head of a new project: “The Revival of Philosophy in the 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Middle East: An Untold Story.”