Anna Sierka

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Term:
Academic Year 2021-2022

Contact:
annasierka@fas.harvard.edu

Anna Sierka

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Anna Sierka earned her PhD at the University of Munich with a doctoral dissertation focusing on the adaptation of imagery known from the medieval Ashkenazi esoteric sources in Lurianic Kabbalah, chiefly in Naphtali Bachrach’s major oeuvre Emeq ha-Melekh. She has been a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow and subsequently, a Minerva Fellow in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explorers significant shifts in esoteric and kabbalistic doctrines against the backdrop of the manuscript sources. Her recent paper “Kanfei Yona in Seventeenth-Century Ashkenaz” was published in Kabbalah: Journal of Jewish Mystical Texts (2021). She is currently completing a monograph on non-Lurianic traditions in early modern Ashkenazi Kabbalah.