Professor Avriel Bar-Levav is a faculty member in the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at The Open University of Israel. His research interests include Jewish intellectual history in the early modern period, Jewish attitudes toward death, the history of the Jewish book, Jewish magic, and egodocuments.

Together with Moshe Idel and others, he wrote An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism (4 volumes, Open University of Israel Press, Raanana 2022).

Among the books he co-edited are Derekh Sefer (The Way of the Book): A  Tribute to Ze'ev Griess (Carmel, 2021); Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 31: Textual Transmission in Modern Jewish Culture (2020); Paths to Modernity: A Tribute to Yosef Kaplan (Zalman Shazar Center, 2018); and Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities (De Gruyter, 2014).

He was editor of Pe'amim: Studies in Oriental  Jewry, published by the Ben-Zvi Institute, and he is co-editor of Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture (Brill).  

He is the recipient of the 2020 Am Ve-Olam Prize for an outstanding paper in history, for his paper “Textual Intimacy and the Bond of Reading between the Expulsion from Spain and Amsterdam.”