Prof. Daniel Reiser heads the Department of Jewish Thought at Hertzog College. He specializes in Hasidic philosophy, modern mysticism, and theology in the Shoah. Reiser was a Matanel and a Warburg Post-Doc Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was an adjunct lecturer in the department of Jewish Thought there. He was a Yad-Vashem Post-Doc Fellow in Jerusalem and a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Post-Doc Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, New York. His latest books are Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue: The Yiddish Sermons of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2020); Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (De Gruyter, 2018), and Sermons from the Years of Rage (Herzog College, The World Union of Jewish Studies and Yad Vashem, 2017).