Immanuel Etkes

 ( Hebrew University Of Jerusalem ) 

Immanuel Etkes (born 1939) is emeritus professor of history of the Jewish people at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Immanuel Etkes. Brandeis University Press. His research focuses on religious and cultural movements among Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Faculty page (In Hebrew). Hebew University of Jerusalem. Allan Nadler describes his biographies of the Vilna Gaon, the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, and Rabbi Israel Salanter, as "definitive."Nadler, Allan. Like Dreamers. Jewish Review of Books. Winter 2021. He was awarded the Bialik Prize in 2010.

Etkes was born in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a Religious Zionist environment and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. In 2010 he participated in the protest movement against the displacement of Palestinian residents from Sheikh Jarrah. ירושלים: מרצים בכירים מארגנים צעדת מחאה בשייח' ג'ראח. Makor Rishon. May 25, 2010. The anti-settlement activist Dror Etkes is one of his four children.

• Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement: Seeking the Torah of Truth. Jewish Publication Society, 1993.
• The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and His Image. University of California Press, 2002.
• The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader. UPNE, 2012.
• Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The Origins of Chabad Hasidism. Brandeis University Press, 2014.

• Articles written by Immanuel Etkes in the YIVO Encyclopedia