Rachel Elior
John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish Thought
Personal Information
Place of Birth: Jerusalem, Israel.
Citizenship: Israeli
Address: 22 Dan Street, Jerusalem, Israel 93509
Home telephone: +972-2- 6714856
Cel. 054-236-9693
E-mail:
http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~mselio
https://jewishthought.huji.ac.il/people/
Academic Education:
1973 B.A. Summa Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1976 Ph.D Summa Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Positions held at The Hebrew University
1979 Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought
1983 Senior Tenured Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought
1988 Associate Professor
1994 Senior Professor
1998 John and Golda Cohen Chair of Jewish Philosophy
2004-08 Chair, Department of Jewish Thought
2008-2011 Senior Professor
2011 Professor Emerita
Positions held at other Universities
1982 Visiting Lecturer, University College London, Department of Jewish Studies
1983 Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Jewish Studies, Amsterdam University, (spring term)
1987 Visiting Professor, Oberlin College, Department of Religion
1995 Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Religion, (Winter term)
1998 Research Fellow, Oxford University, Centre of Jewish Studies, Yarnton
2001 Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, Revel Graduate School, New York, (summer term)
2001 Visiting Professor, Case Western University, Rosenthal Center for Liberal Arts, Cleveland, (Winter term)
2002 Distinguished Foreign Academic Lecturer, Tokyo University, Department of Religion, (spring term)
2003 Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Department of Religion, (spring term)
2003 Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, Revel Graduate School, New York, (summer term)
2004 Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, Revel Graduate School, New York, (summer term)
2005 Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, Revel Graduate School, New York (summer term)
2007 Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, Revel Graduate School, New York (summer term)
2008 Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University, Revel Graduate School, New York (summer term
2008 Visiting Professor, Doshisha University, Graduate School of Theology, Kyoto, Japan, October-December
2010 visiting Professor, Catholic University of Buenos Aires (summer term)
2013 Visiting Professor, Chicago University, Divinity School. Graduate School (Spring term)
2015 Visiting Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University Institute of Oriental Languages (Spring term)
2017, 2019 Visiting Professor, Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, Stockhom (spring term)
Academic Awards
1973-1976 Academic Excellence Award of the Liberal Arts Faculty of the Hebrew University
1979-1982 Yigal Alon Brecha Trust award for Excellence in Academic Achievement
1975, 1976, 1978, 1988 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award for Academic Achievement and Excellence
1976, 1978, 1979 Warburg Prize of the Hebrew University for Academic Achievement
1983 Humanitarian Trust Award, London
1983-84 Yad Avi Hayishuv (Geneva) Academic Excellence Fellowship
1985Yad Avi Hayishuv (Geneva) Academic Excellence Fellowship
1989-90 Solomon Yaffe Award of Jewish Studies
1989-90 Lakarietz Award of Martin Buber Studies and Modern Jewish thought
1991-92 Research Fund Award of the Faculty of Liberal Arts, the Hebrew University
1992-93 State University of New York (SUNY) Research Foundation Award
1993-94 Luscius Littauer Award for Academic Leadership, Harvard University
1991-1994 Federman Award from the Institute of Jewish Studies, the Hebrew University
1994-95 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award
1994-97 Research Grant from the Israeli National Academy of Sciences
1995-7 Zehava & Zvi Friedenberg Award of Excellence of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1998 Oxford University Centre of Jewish Studies, the Jerusalem Trust Visiting Fellowship
1998 John and Golda Cohen Chair for Jewish Philosophy
2000 Sir Isaac Wolfson Foundation Award, London
2001 Amos Foundation Award (The President of the State of Israel award for Academic publication)
2002-03 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Award.
2006 Gershom Scholem Award for the Study of Kabbala, Israel National Academy of Sciences.
2007-8 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship.
2010 Luscius Littauer Award for Jewish Culture.
2014 A Corresponding Member (Israel) of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy.
2016 Honorary Doctorate awarded by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and Jerusalem.
2017 WIZO Jerusalem award for pathbreaking women in recognition of her work on behalf of Israeli society.