Yechiel Shalom Goldberg
Spiritual Leadership and the Popularization of Kabbalah
in Medieval Spain
Brief Biography
Yechiel Shalom Goldberg, known to a few as Joel R. Goldberg, is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He received his Ph.D. from the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, where he wrote a dissertation entitled Mystical Union, Individuality, and Individuation in Provençal and Catalonian Kabbalah. He is currently working on a number of articles that address the place and function of wisdom in thirteenth century Kabbalah as it relates to mystical experience, esotericism, and personal identity. Other research interests include Jewish views of the afterlife, not limited to kabbalistic sources; and Jewish-Christian relations as represented in Kabbalistic literature, including representations of Christianity, co-option of Christian themes and images, and polemics.
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