Research Fellow – Dr. Silvana Kandel Lamdan
Silvana Kandel Lamdan has a BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought and a MA in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2023 She has completed her Ph.D. at the University of Haifa, under the supervision of Dr. Cedric Cohen Skalli. In her doctoral research, she analyzed, for the first time in research, the reception of Jewish sources by the first generation of Latin American liberation theologians. At 2023 she was a postdoctoral researcher of the Department of Comparative Religions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, hosted by Dr. Karma Ben Johanan. 2024-2026 she is Minerva postdoctoral Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
2023 PhD
2016-2017 MA research thesis in Jewish Thought, University of Haifa,
2003-2007, 2012 MA in Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2003-2007 Rabbinic Ordination, studies of Classical, Medieval and modern Jewish sources, comparative religious studies, social sciences. Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem
1999-2002 BA in Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- ‘Longing for Authenticity in the Middle East and the Americas: Martin Buber and Enrique Dussel on Semitic Humanism,’ in: Identitatsverhandlungen zwischen Emanzipation und Herrschaft, Judith Gruber, Sebastian Pittl, Stephan Silber (eds.), Concordia Reihe Monographien, Band 73, (Aachen: Wiessenschaftverlag, 2019), pp. 367-378.
- “Aharon David Gordon and Paul Gauthier on the Mystics of Work,” article submitted to the Harvard Theological Review. (Nov. 2019)
- “The ‘Israel Experience’ and the Latin American Identity: Enrique Dussel in the wake of Martin Buber’s Oriental Indigeneity,” accepted to be published in: Journal of Ecumenical Studies, the University of Pennsylvania Press, (autumn 2019).
- “Longing for Authenticity in the Middle East and the Americas: Martin Buber and Enrique Dussel on Semitic Humanism,” accepted to be published in: Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift, 23 (2019), Heft 1.