Avinoam J. Stillman

Avinoam J. Stillman studies early modern Jewish history, with particular interest in kabbalah in East-Central Europe and the Ottoman Empire, as well as in Hebrew manuscripts and printed books. He is a doctoral candidate at Freie Universität Berlin and an associate of the research group “Patterns of Knowledge Circulation,” having completed his MA at Ben Gurion University and his BA at Columbia University. He is also a co-founder of “Blima Books,” a small press based in Jerusalem and Berlin and dedicated to “Radical Jewish Literature.” At the Lab, Avinoam is examining the Abraham Joshua Heschel papers.