Prof. Cedric Cohen-Skalli teaches Jewish philosophy at the University of Haifa. He is the Director of the Bucerius Institute for the Research of Contemporary German History and Society and Chair of the Department of Jewish History and Bible. His field of research is interreligious intellectual history. He has published several books and many articles on diverse intercultural aspects of Jewish thought and literature in the Renaissance and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His intellectual biography of Isaac Abravanel was published in Hebrew and English by Shazar and Brandeis presses. He co-edited the volumes Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer (Brill 2022) and Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis Interpretation, Heresy and History (De Gruyter 2024), Women Writing Buber (Brill, 2026) and is about to publish a new book with the title Forgotten Paths to Modernity: Isaac Abravanel, New Imperial Thinking and Critical Historiography in the Upenn Jewish Culture and Context series. He is the translator of many works and leads several initiatives on the topic: The Revival of Philosophy in the 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Middle East and North Africa: An Untold Story.
