Prof. Yossi Chajes Reveals the Hidden History of Kabbalah, Magic, and Science

When University of Haifa’s Prof. J. H. (Yossi) Chajes arrived in Cambridge this winter to deliver Harvard University’s Houghton Medieval Studies Lecture in Early Book History, he brought with him decades of groundbreaking scholarship—work that has reshaped how we understand the intertwined histories of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), magic, and science.