Publications

Edited Volumes

1. Shmuel Hugo Bergmann, Esoteric Schools, eds. Boaz Huss and Samuel Glauber (Jerusalem: Blima, 2024) [Hebrew]

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2. Hillel Zeitlin, In the Secret Place of the Soul: Three Essays, eds. Jonatan Meir and Samuel Glauber-Zimra (Jerusalem: Blima, 2020) [Hebrew]

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Translated Books

Jonatan Meir, Gershom Scholem and the Research of Sabbatianism, trans. Samuel Glauber-Zimra (Jerusalem: JTS –Schocken Institute for Jewish Research & Blima Books, 2021)

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

  1. “Demons, Dybbuks, and a Water Medium: Possession in Early-Twentieth-Century Warsaw,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 38 (invited submission under review)

  2. “The Living Dead: In Search of Hasidism at the Bratslaver Shtiblekh of Warsaw,” East European Jewish Affairs (accepted for publication, c. 9,500 words)

  3. “Advertising Occultism in the Jewish Press in Poland,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 23, no. 2 (2024): 518–43 (click here to download advance version)

  4. “Hillel Zeitlin’s ‘On Secret Redeemers,’” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought 55, no. 1 (2023): 98–106 (with Jonatan Meir) (click here to download)

  5. “Prolegomena to the Study of Jewish Occultism: Definition, Scope, and Impact,” Jewish Thought 4 (2022): 91–121 (with Boaz Huss) (click here to download)

  6. “‘No Religion Could be More Spiritual than Ours’: Anglo-Jewish Spiritualist Societies in the Interwar Period,” Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 53 (2022): 83–104 (with Boaz Huss) (click here to download)

  7. “Writings on Spiritualism from the Archive of R. Eliyahu Mordekhai Halevy Wolkowsky,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 52 (2022): 145–90 (click here to download)

  8. “Summoning Spirits in Egypt: Jewish Women and Spiritualism in Early-Twentieth-Century Cairo,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 38 (2021): 25–45 (click here to download)

  9. “‘From Time to Time I Dream Wondrous Dreams’: Esotericism and Prophecy in the Writings of Hillel Zeitlin,” Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism 9, no. 1 (2021): 5–48 (click here to download)

Popular Publications

  1. Translation with commentary of Hersh Dovid Nomberg, “Demons on the Jewish Street,” Below the Line: The Feuilleton & Modern Jewish Cultures (February 2024) https://www.feuilletonproject.org/s/below-the-line/item/303

  2. “Briv funem arkhiv: A Long-Lost Letter from the Author’s Great-Grandfather to Moishe Nadir,” In geveb (February 2023) https://ingeveb.org/blog/letter-to-moishe-nadir

  3. “John Myers, Jewish Spirit Photographer,” The Media of Mediumship (September 2022) https://mediaofmediumship.stir.ac.uk/2022/09/02/john-myers-jewish-spirit-photographer/

  4. “Briv funem arkhiv: ‘Arabs Make Peace… With the Khalutsim of Liepaja,’” In geveb (November 2021) https://ingeveb.org/blog/briv-khalutsim-of-liepaja

  5. Isaac Ewen, “A Séance in the Shtetl,” translated and introduced by Sam Glauber-Zimra, The Barnacle Goose 2 (2021): 30–33 (click here to download)

  6. “Briv funem Arkhiv: Di Korbones fun ‘Vaysn Sam,’” In geveb (January 2020) https://ingeveb.org/blog/briv-funem-arkhiv-di-korbones-fun-vaysn-sam

  7. “Spiritualists and the City,” Columbia Current: A Journal of Contemporary Politics, Culture, and Jewish Affairs at Columbia University (Spring 2019) http://www.columbia-current.org/spiritualists-and-the-city.html