Immanuel Etkes (born 1939) is emeritus professor of history of the Jewish people at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [1] His research focuses on religious and cultural movements among Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [2] Allan Nadler describes his biographies of the Vilna Gaon, the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, and Rabbi Israel Salanter, as "definitive." [3] He was awarded the Bialik Prize in 2010.
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Etkes was born in Tel Aviv. He grew up in a Religious Zionist environment [3] and was a member of the Bnei Akiva youth movement. In 2010 he participated in the protest movement against the displacement of Palestinian residents from Sheikh Jarrah. [4] The anti-settlement activist Dror Etkes is one of his four children.
