Dr. Itamar Ben Ami

Janskerkhof 13
Janskerkhof 13
Kamer 1.06
3512 BL Utrecht

Dr. Itamar Ben Ami

Assistant Professor
Religious Studies
i.y.benami@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Ben Ami, I. (2025). A Crisis of Legitimacy: Jewish Orthodoxy’s Controversy over Max Weber’s Neutralization of Social Science. The Journal of Religion, 105(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1086/732601

2024

Scholarly publications

Ben Ami, I. (2024). Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and the State of Israel: New Perspectives. In D. N. Myers, & N. Malovicki-Yaffe (Eds.), New Trends in the Study of Haredi Culture and Society (pp. 157-178). Purdue University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.22177844
Ben Ami, I. (2024). Isaac Breuer’s Antiliberal Neo-Kantianism and the Politicization of Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy. Modern Intellectual History, 21(3), 633-657. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000052
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/258336022/isaac-breuers-antiliberal-neo-kantianism-and-the-politicization-of-jewish-ultra-orthodoxy.pdf

2023

Scholarly publications

Ben Ami, I. (2023). Über die Neuerfindung der jüdischen Ultraorthodoxie in Israel. In G. Dachs (Ed.), Umbrüche: Neues und Altes aus der jüdischen Welt (pp. 192-210). Suhrkamp & Jüdischer Verlag.
Ben Ami, I. (2023). The Total State of the Torah: Isaac Breuer and the Foundations of Orthodox Radical Politics. Jewish Quarterly Review, 113(4), 692-722. https://doi.org/10.1353/jqr.2023.a913350
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/434294/The_Total_State_of_the_Torah_Isaac_Breuer_and_the_Foundations_of_Radical_Orthodox_Politics.pdf?sequence=1
Ben Ami, I. (2023). Orthodox Judaism’s Concept of the Political. Shofar, 41(2), 6-31. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2023.a911217
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/434293/project_muse_911217.pdf?sequence=1
Ben Ami, I. (2023). How Jewish Orthodoxy Became a State: Isaac Breuer and the Invention of the Statist Theocracy. Harvard Theological Review, 116(1), 123-146. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816023000068
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/430988/how-jewish-orthodoxy-became-a-state-isaac-breuer-and-the-invention-of-the-statist-theocracy.pdf?sequence=1
Ben Ami, I. (2023). Orthodox Judaism in the twentieth century: an alternative modernity (review essay). Intellectual History Review, 33(4), 747–759 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2022.2058766

2022

Scholarly publications

Ben Ami, I. (2022). Modern Haredim and the Contemporary Haredi Society: Beyond the Paradigm of Liberalization. Jewish Social Studies, 27(2), 183-205. https://doi.org/10.2979/jewisocistud.27.2.07