Menachem Lorberbaum

Menachem Lorberbaum is an Israeli professor and the chair of the School of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

Biography

Menachem Lorberbaum completed his PhD in 1993 under the joint supervision of Aviezer Ravitzki of the Hebrew University and Michael Walzer of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton with a dissertation entitled: Politics and the Limits of Law in Jewish Medieval Thought. While writing his dissertation he was invited to be a fellow at the school of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he stayed for three years.

Academic career

He was the founding chair of the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Lorberbaum studies political theory and the connection between religion, state, and politics in the Jewish tradition.

Published works

Lorberbaum is author of Politics and the Limits of Law and We are Dazzled by His Beauty. Together with Professors Michael Walzer of Princeton and Noam Zohar of Bar-Ilan he is a senior editor of the Jewish Political Tradition series. He is editor of the new and first complete Hebrew translation of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan. Lorberbaum has also published three volumes of Hebrew verse and is together with Michal Govrin, editor of the Devarim poetry series of Carmel publishers that published his book of poetic translations Transpositions. He is on the editorial board of the Hebraic Political Studies journal.