Andrea Gondos is a scholar of Kabbalah and early modern Jewish cultural and intellectual history. Her research focuses on knowledge production and transmission, the technological impact of printing, and the popularization of Jewish mystical ideas among non-elite Jews, as well as among learned Christians. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research associate in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, "Patterns of Knowledge Circulation," examining questions of sexuality, gender, and emotions in magical recipe texts produced in early modern East-Central Europe. Prior to joining the Emmy Noether group, she held postdoctoral positions in Israel at Tel Aviv University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She was also a fellow at the Katz Centre of Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2013-14).

Andrea Gondos’s current research centers on health and healing particularly in relation to women and gender in early modern Jewish recipe books of magic and practical Kabbalah. Her next book project, titled Chaining Lilith: Gender, Esoteric Knowledge, and Medicine in Early Modern Jewish Magical Practice, will examine how the female body and its reproductive powers constituted a unique epistemological space for the Ba’alei Shem (Jewish Shamanic healers) where knowledge concerning creation and regeneration could be accessed and controlled. Her first monograph, Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity (New York: SUNY, 2020), exposes the literary, pedagogic, and conceptual strategies early modern authors used for synthesizing and reorganizing earlier kabbalistic works to mediate between elite and popular culture. 

You can follow her on https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/AndreaGondos and https://www.facebook.com/gondos24 

Monograph:

• Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity (New York: SUNY, 2020)

Edited Book:

• From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies inCanada, edited by Daniel Maoz and Andrea Gondos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011)

Articles/Book Chapters:

• “‘To Know Everything:’ Encyclopedias and the Organization of Kabbalistic Knowledge,” forthcoming in European Journal of Jewish Studies 16.1 (2022)

• “Decoding the Language of the Zohar: Lexicons to Kabbalah in Early Modernity,” AJS Review 45.1 (2021): 24–47

• “Seekers of Love: Ecstatic Rapture as Mystical Ideal in Jewish, Christian, and Sufi Mysticism,” in Common and Comparative Esotericisms: Western, Islamic, and Jewish, edited by Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piranio (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), 21–42
• “New Kabbalistic Genres and Their Readers in Early Modern Europe,” in Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe, edited by Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 2019), 67–85

Blog/Web Exhibit Publications:

• “A Black Rooster and the Angel of Dread: Jewish Magical Recipes Against Fear," Recipe Hypotheses Blog, https://recipes.hypotheses.org/17994

• “Kabbalistic Abridgements to the Pardes Rimonim: The Evolution of a Text,” in ‘Constructing Borders & Crossing Boundaries: Social, Cultural, & Religious Change in Early Modern Jewish History,’ Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania web-exhibit, curated by Arthur Kiron, 2014 http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/cajs/fellows14/cajs2014.html