Yaacob Dweck completed his PhD in history at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation, "The Critique of Kabbalahin Leon Modena's Ari Nohem," traces the redefinition of Kabbalah from its medieval status as esoteric wisdom to an exoteric system of religious thought and practice in the early modern period. During his graduate studies, Dweck was supported by several fellowships, including a Gates Scholarship at the University of Cambridge and a Wexner Graduate Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He has recently published English translations of modern Hebrew fiction by Haim Sabato and S. Yizhar. At Princeton, Dweck is revising his dissertation for publication and preparing a new Hebrew edition and English translation of Modena's Ari Nohem. In addition, he will begin a study of polemics about the Jewish soul in seventeenth-century Europe. In the fall he will teach a lecture survey of "Modern Jewish History," and in the spring, a seminar on "Moses Maimonides from Medieval Egypt to Modernity."