Alexandra Mandelbaum Kupeev
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Alexandra Mandelbaum Kupeev is a Stroock Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where she wrote her dissertation on the development of Breslov Hasidism in the 19th century. Her current research explores the revival and transformation of Breslov Hasidism in 20th- and 21st-century Israeli culture, with particular attention to questions of dissemination, esotericism, and messianism. In addition to her work on Hasidism, she writes and researches on Jewish identity among post-Soviet immigrants. She teaches courses on Kabbalah and Hasidic thought in both academic institutions and broader public study frameworks.