Sharon Flatto
Associate Professor
Judaic Studies
Sharon Flatto is an associate professor of Judaic Studies. Before coming to Brooklyn College, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University. Flatto has taught at a broad range of educational institutions, including Yale University, Queens College and Brown University, and at numerous adult education programs. She has received multiple awards, including grants from the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, the Whiting Foundation (for outstanding teaching in the humanities), the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Memorial Foundation and the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. She is the author of The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau (the 'Noda Biyehudah') and His Contemporaries (Littman Press, 2010) and various scholarly articles.
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Education:
Ph.D. , Yale University - 2000 (Jewish History)
B.A., Barnard College - 1990 (European History)
Areas of Expertise:
Flatto specializes in early modern Jewish history, early modern and modern Jewish thought, and Kabbalah. Her research interests include the role of mysticism in 17th- and 18th-century Ashkenazic (Central and Eastern European) culture, interactions between hasidim and mitnaggedim (opponents of Hasidism) and the modernization of Central European Jewish society.
Books and Publications
"A Tale of Three Generations: Shifting Attitudes Towards Haskalah, Mendelssohn, and Acculturation." Accepted for publication in the Festschrift for David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania Press, summer). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
"Believing the Censor? A Response to 'Diests, Sabbatians, and Kabbalists in Prague': A Censored Sermon of R. Ezekiel Landau, 1770." Kabbalah :Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 24: 123-46. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
The Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Prague: Ezekiel Landau and His Contemporaries., Oxford, United Kingdom: Littman Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2010
"Ezekiel Landau." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Israel Landau." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Moses Landau." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Hasidim and Mitnaggedim: Not a World Apart." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 12.2: 99-121. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Wolfe Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, 2010-11. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009
PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2008
PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
PSC-CUNY Research Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Whiting Foundation Fellowship for outstanding teaching in the humanities. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"From Prayers for the Shekhinah to Midnight Vigils: The Influence of Kabbalah on Jewish Law and Practice." Annual day on Kabbalah JCC. New York, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
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