CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Asher Albo
Tel: 972-503133524
E-mail: asheralbo594@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Year Degree Institution
2019 Ph.D (submitted) Tel-Aviv University
2013 M.A. (in excellence) Tel-Aviv University
2007 Teacher Diploma The Hebrew university of Jerusalem 2002 B.A. Tel-Aviv University
Thesis (Ph.D): Genealogy of Religious Metaphors in the First
Decades of the Hasidic Movement
Supervisor: Prof. Ron Margolin
WORK EXPERIENCE/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Year Appointment
2014- to Date Lecturer, the School of Jewish Studies, Tel-Aviv University
2017- to Date Lecturer, member in the School of Education, Head of the
Teacher Education Program of Ofakim, Tel-Aviv University
2001- to Date Teacher, vice-principal in Ankori high school
AWARDS/GRANT/HONORS
Year (sample)
2017-2018 The JTS-Schocken Institute for Jewish Research's
Scholarship for early career scholars of Bratslav Hasidism
2011-2012 Yad Hanadiv Foundation's scholarship for studies on Judaism in the ancient world
MEMBERSHIPS
Year (sample)
2012-2013 Member in the committee of the Matriculation Exam in literature for the Ministry of Education
COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The School of Jewish Studies: Cultural tensions in Israeli literature and art
The School of Education: Formation of educational viewpoints
MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. The religious despair.
2. The poetic language in the religious thought.
3. Kabbalah and Hasidism.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
Albo, Asher. The Despair of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2017. [Hebrew]
Refereed Journal Articles
Albo, Asher. Pedagogy of Caring: A Case Study. Mofet Institute, 63 [Hebrew- in print]
Non Refereed Publications
Albo, Asher. The formula of success in Civics studies. Tel Aviv: Ankori, 2014. [Hebrew]
International Conferences
BAJS-2018 The Face of God: Between Metaphor and Metonymy. Theories and Histories: Jewish Studies Across Disciplines. Durham University, UK
PAD-2018 Genealogy of personification of God in the Jewish Pre-modern Literature. Personification Across Disciplines. Durham University, UK
