Professor Sam Shonkoff (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is the Taube Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA. His scholarship and teaching focus on modern Jewish theology and culture, particularly in German-Jewish and Hasidic contexts. He is the author of many articles, and he is co-editor with Ariel Mayse of Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community and Life in the Modern World (Brandeis University Press, 2020). His current book project, Embodied Theology: Reading Buber Reading Hasidism, examines Martin Buber’s interpretations of Hasidic sources.