
Term:
Academic Year 2025-2026
Contact:
ido_benharush@fas.harvard.edu
Courses:
Spring 2026:
RELIGION 24: Sovereignty, Messianism, and Exile in Jewish Political Thought
RELIGION 27: Capitalism as Religion
Fall 2025:
RELIGION 26: Art, Idolatry, and Aesthetics in Jewish Thought
Ido Ben Harush
Yale University
Associate, Center for the Study of Religions
Ido Ben Harush is a College Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He is a scholar of modern Jewish philosophy and literature whose work explores the role of religious categories in social critique and aesthetic theory. He completed his PhD in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, where he wrote a dissertation on the afterlives of the biblical prohibition of idolatry in modern German-Jewish thought. His research has appeared in New German Critique, Rosenzweig Yearbook, and other venues. At Harvard, he develops his first book project, which builds on his dissertation, and teaches courses on modern Jewish philosophy and literature, political theology, secularization, and media theory.