BOOKS
1. Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer. Co-edited with Barry W. Holtz. New York: Paulist Press, 1977.
1a. __________, second revised edition. New York: Schocken Books, 1987.
1b. __________, third edition. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 1993.
1c. __________, Dutch translation. Den Haag: East-West Publications, 2003.
2. Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav. University AL: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
2a. __________, second edition (paperback). Schocken Books, 1991.
2b. __________, reprint. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 1992.
2c. __________, Ba’al ha-Yissurim. Hebrew translation. Tel Aviv: ‘Am ‘Oved, 1981.
2d. __________, reprint, 1996.
2e. __________, La Sagesse Dansant de Rabbi Nahman. French translation. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000.
2f. __________, Russian translation, 2007.
3. Upright Practices and The Light of the Eyes, Homilies on Genesis, by R. Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl. Edited and translated. New York: Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality), 1982.
3a. __________, reprint, 1998.
4. Jewish Spirituality (historical essays). 2 v. Edited. New York: Crossroad Books (World Spirituality Series), 1986-87.
5. Devotion and Commandment: The Faith of Abraham in the Hasidic Imagination. Hebrew Union College, Efroymson Lectures of 1986. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1989.
6. Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology. Northvale NJ: Jason Aronson, 1992.
6a. __________, Baqqeshu Fanai, Qire’u Vi-Shemi: Emunato shel Mehapes. Hebrew translation. Tel Aviv: ëAm ëOved Press, 1997.
6b. __________, revised second edition, published as Seek My Face: A Jewish Mystical Theology. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2003.
6c. __________, Dutch translation, 2006.
7. Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
8. The Language of Truth: Teachings from the Sefat Emet by Rabbi Judah Leib Alter of Ger. Selection, Translation, and Contemporary Response. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
9. These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1999.
9a. __________. Dutch translation. Amsterdam, 2001.
9b. __________. Italian translation. Firenze, 2002.
9c. __________. Nine entries reprinted in The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook, ed. S. M. Matlins. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2001.
9d. __________. Hebrew version (re-written), Eleh ha-Devarim, Leksikon le-Ruhaniyyut Yehudit. Yedi’ot (Yahadut kan ve-‘akhshav), 2008.
10. EHYEH: A Kabbalah for Tomorrow. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2002.
11. Ha-Shekhinah, ha-Betulah ha-Kedoshah, ve-Shir ha-Shirim (“Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and the Song of Songs”). Jerusalem: Yeri’ot, 2004. (Translation; see Articles I:28)
12. A Guide to the Zohar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
13. Radical Judaism: Re-thinking God and Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
14. Hasidic Spirituality for a New Era: The Religious Writings of Hillel Zeitlin. New York: Paulist Press (Classics of Western Spirituality, 2012.
15. Speaking Torah: Hasidic Teachings from Around the Maggid’s Table. 2 v. Jewish Lights, 2013.
16. The Heart of the Matter: Studies in Jewish Mysticism and Theology. Forthcoming from Jewish Publication Society, 2014.
ARTICLES I (HISTORICAL/PHENOMENOLOGICAL)
1. “The Continuing Redemption of Rabbi Nahman.” Review-Essay of J. Weiss, Mehqarim be-Hasidut Bratslav. Conservative Judaism 29 (1975).
2. “Rabbi Nahman Bratslaver’s Conflict Regarding Leadership.” Texts and Responses: Studies Presented to Nahum N. Glatzer. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975.
3. “The Children in Egypt and the Theophany at the Sea.” Judaism 24 (1975).
4. “The Zaddiq as Axis Mundi in Later Judaism.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 45:3 (1977).
5. “Sabbath as Temple: Some Thoughts on Space and Time in Judaism.” Go and Study: Essays and Studies in Honor of Alfred Jospe. Washington D.C.: Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations, 1980.
6. “Rabbi Nahman’s Journey to the Land of Israel.” Essays in Honor of Alexander Altmann. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1981.
7. “Discovery and Retreat: Hasidism and the Mystical Consciousness.” The Other Side of God, ed. Peter Berger. New York: Anchor Books, 1981.
8. “Bride, Spouse, Daughter: Images of the Feminine in Jewish Religious Literature.” On Being a Jewish Feminist, ed. Susannah Heschel. New York: Schocken Books, 1982.
9. “Judaism and Mysticism.” Take Judaism, for Example, ed. Jacob Neusner. Chicago: University of Chicago Pess, 1983.
10. “On Translating Hasidic Homilies.” Prooftexts 3:1 (1983).
11. “The Zohar: Jewish Mysticism in Medieval Spain.” An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe, ed. Paul Szarmach. Albany, SUNY Press, 1984.
11a. Reprinted in Essential Papers on Kabbalah, ed. L. Fine.
12. “Teachings of the Hasidic Masters.” Back to the Sources: Reading the Classical Jewish Texts, ed. Barry W. Holtz. New York: Summit Books, 1984.
13. Contributions to Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade. (Five entries on Hasidism.). 1987.
14. “Typologies of Leadership in Early Hasidism.” Jewish Spirituality II, ed. Arthur Green. New York: Crossroad Books,1987.
14a. “Eine Tradition auf der Suche nach Autoritaet: Die Rollen des Weisen (Zaddiq) im chassidischen Judentum.” (abridged German translation) Weisheit, Archaeologie der literarischen Kommunikation III. Muenchen, Wilhelm Fink, 1991.
14b. Hebrew translation in Zaddik ve-‘Edah, ed. David Assaf. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Centre, 2001.
15. “Hasidism” and “Spirituality.” Contributions to , ed. Arthur Cohen and Paul Mendes-Flohr. New York: Scribners, 1987.
15a. __________, Hebrew translation in Leqsiqon ha-Tarbut ha-Yehudit Bi-Zemanenu. Tel Aviv: ëAm ëOved Press, 1986.
16. “The Song of Songs in Early Jewish Mysticism.” Orim: A Jewish Journal at Yale 2:2 (1987).
17. Perush Shir ha-Shirim le-Rabbi Yishaq Ibn Sahula. Critical edition with introduction and notes. Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought 6:3-4 (1987).
18. “The Current Hour in Hasidic Research.” Hasidism Re-Appraised, ed. Ada Rapaport-Albert. London: Littman Library, 1996.
19. “Three Warsaw Mystics.” Kolot Rabbim: Essays in Memory of Rivka Schatz-Uffenheimer, ed. Rachel Elior. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1997.
20. Contributions to Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, ed. Geoffrey Wigoder. Sixteen articles on Hasidism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
21. “Judaism and ‘the Good.’” Theoria: Praxis, ed. L. Swidler. Leuven: Peeters, 1998.
22. “Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns.” Tikkun 14:1 (1998)
23. Reply to Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Reviewing Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism). Kabbalah 5 (2000).
24. “Shekhinah, the Virgin Mary, and the Song of Songs: Reflections on a Kabbalistic Symbol in Its Christian Context.” Association for Jewish Studies Review, 26:1 (2002) 1-52.
25. “Some Aspects of Qabbalat Shabbat.” In Sabbath: Idea, History, Reality. Beersheva, Ben Gurion University, 2004.
26. “Hasidism” and “Eco-Kabbalah.” Articles for The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. 2003.
27. “Introduction to the Zohar.” In volume 1 of The Pritzker Edition of the Zohar, translated by Daniel C. Matt. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. (Abbreviated version of book #12)
28. “Intradivine Romance: The Song of Songs in the Zohar.” In Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs., ed. P Hawkins and L. Stahlberg. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006.
29. Shekhinah in Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, ed. Y. Greenberg. ABC Clio, 2007.
Contributions to The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. “Piety;” “Dov Baer of Mezritsh;” “Elimelekh of Lizhensk;” “Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev;” “Ger Hasidic Dynasty;” “Radomsk Hasidic Dynasty;” “Nahman of Bratslav;” “Satmar Hasidism;” “Shne’ur Zalman of Lyady.” New Haven; Yale University Press, 2008.
30. “Abraham Joshua Heschel: Recasting Hasidism for Moderns.” (Major revision of #25 above) Modern Judaism 2009.
31. “Hillel Zeitlin and Neo-Hasidic Readings of the Zohar.” Kabbalah 22 (2010).
32. “Hasidism and Its Changing History.” Conference paper, University College, London, 2010. Forthcoming 2013.
33. “Elie Wiesel in the Context of Neo-Hasidism.” Essays in Honor of Elie Wiesel. Boston University. Forthcoming 2013
34.“Ga’agu’ey ha-Elohim el ha-Adam.” (On Rabbi Nahman’s Tale of the King and the Sage). Ha-Hayyim ke-Ga’agu’a. Ed. Roi Haron. 2010.
35. “Around the Maggid’s Table: Tsaddik, Leadership and Popularization in the Circle of Dov Baer of Miedzyrzec.” Zion, 2013 (Hebrew).
36. “The Hasidic Homily: Mystical Performance and Hermeneutical Process.” Forthcoming in The Heart of the Matter, 2014.
37. Green , Arthur, and Ariel Evan Mayse. ““The Great Call of the Hour”: Hillel Zeitlin’s Yiddish Writings on Yavneh.” In geveb (March 2016).
ARTICLES II (CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY)
1. “The Experience of Sinai.” Variant 4:3 (1964).
2. “Notes from the Jewish Underground: Psychedelics and Kabbalah.” Response 2 (1968).
3. “After Itzik: Toward a Theology of Jewish Spirituality.” Worship (1971).
2a & 3a. Reprints of #2 and 3 in The New Jews, ed. A. Mintz and J. Sleeper. New York, 1971.
4. “Response to Richard Rubenstein.” Conservative Judaism 28(1974).
5. “The Role of Mysticism in a Contemporary Jewish Theology.” Conservative Judaism 30 (1976).
6. “Neo-Hasidism and Our Theological Struggles.” Ra’ayonot 4:3 (1984).
7. “Jewish Studies and Jewish Faith.” Tikkun 1:1 (1986).
7a. Reprinted in The Tikkun Anthology, 1991.
8. “The Real Challenge of Orthodoxy.” Reconstructionist 52:2 (1986).
9. “Keeping Feminist Creativity Jewish.” Sh’ma 16/305 (1986).
10. “Judaism and Spirituality: A Jewish Mysticism for Our Age.” Brandeis University: Institute for Distinguished Community Leaders, Proceedings, 1987.
11. “Scholarship Is Not Enough”. Tikkun 2:3 (1987).
12. “Finding God in an Israel that Isn’t Zion: A Response to Arthur Cohen”. Sh’ma 17/327 (1987).
13. “Judaism as a Spiritual Language: A Jewish Mysticism for Our Age.” Manna 19 (1988).
14. “Rethinking Theology: Language, Experience, and Reality.” Reconstructionist 54:1 (1988).
15. “Toward a New Theology of Revelation.” Materials from the Critical Issues Conference II. New York: CLAL, 1988.
16. “Twin Centers: Sacred Space and Sacred Time in Judaism.” Reconstructionist 55:5 (1990).
17. “God, World, Person: A Jewish Theology of Creation.” Melton Journal. Part One: Winter, 1990; Part Two: Spring, 1991.
17a. __________ alternate version. Journal of Theology 96 (1992).
18. “Speaking in Thunder.” Tikkun 6:3 (1991).
18a. Revised reprint in Celebrating the Jewish Year, ed. P. Steinberg. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, , 2009.
19. “The Problem of Evil.” Reconstructionist 57:3 (1992).
20. “The Aleph-Bet of Creation: Jewish Mysticism for Beginners.” Tikkun 7:4 (1992).
21. “What Is Jewish Theology?” Torah and Revelation, ed. D. Cohn-Sherbok. Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
22. “God, Prayer, and Religious Language.” Imagining the Jewish Future. ed. D. Teutsch. Albany NY: SUNY, 1992.
23. “God, World, Person: A Jewish Theology of Creation.” Journal of Theology (Dayton) 96, 1992.
24. “Is There Really a God?” When Your Jewish Child Asks Why, ed. K. Olitzky et al. New Yorkî: Ktav, 1993.
25. “Some Words on the Words of Prayer.” Worlds of Jewish Prayer, A Festschrift in Honor of Rabbi Zalman Shalomi-Schachter, ed. S. Harris-Wiener and J. Omer-Man. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1993.
26. “New Directions in Jewish Theology in America.” The Third David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs. Ann Arbor: The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 1994.
26a. Reprinted in American Jewish Identity Politics, ed. D. Moore. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.
27. “Judaism for the Post-Modern Era.” The Samuel Goldenson Lecture, 1994. Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1995.
28. “Our Days of Awe.” Preface to a new edition of S. Y. Agnon’s Days of Awe. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
29. “Restoring the Aleph: Judaism for the Contemporary Seeker.” CIJE Lecture Series. New York: Council for Initiatives in Jewish Education, 1996.
30. “What Do American Jews Believe?” Contribution to Commentary symposium. Commentary 102:2 (1996).
31. A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age. Tikkun, 1999.
31a. Revised reprint in Best Contemporary Jewish Writing. ed. M. Lerner, 2001.
31b. Revised reprint in Religion in a Secular City: Essays in Honor of Harvey Cox, ed. A. Sharma. Harrisburg: Trinity, 2001.
32. “Theology on the Far Side of Myth.” With Or Rose. Sh’ma 32/587, January 2002.
33. “To Learn and to Teach: Some Thoughts on Jewish-Buddhist Dialogue.” In Beside Still Waters. 2003.
34. “Afterword” to A Benedictine Legacy of Peace: The Life of Abbot Leo A. Rudloff. Weston: Weston Priory, 2005.
35. “Judaism and Creation Theology.” Sh’ma, December 2005.
36. “God!” European Judaism 39:2 (2006).
37. .”Mystical Sources of the Healing Movement” in William Cutter, Healing and the Jewish Imagination. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2007.
38. Contributions to My People’s Passover Haggadah, ed. D. Arnow and L. Hoffman. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2008.
39. “These Are the Journeys: Tales of Our Wandering. Reflections on Parashat Massa’ey” In Jeffrey Salkin, A Modern Mens’ Torah Commentary. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2009.
40. “A Neo-Hasidic Credo.” Forthcoming in Essays in Honor of Neil Gillman, 2013.
41. “ Forthcoming in the Leon Klenecki Memorial Volume, ed. Celia Deutsch, 2013.
42. “Judaism as a Path of Love.” An address to the Spiritual Directors International Conference on April 10, 2016.
ARTICLES III (COMMUNAL AFFAIRS)
1. “Havurat Shalom: Mikhtav le-Haver Orthodoxi.” Petahim 13 (1970).
2. Contribution to the Response Symposium. Response 4:4 (1970/71).
3. “’Am Yisra’el ve-Erets Yisra’el.” Petahim 18 (1971).
4. “Havurat Shalom: A Proposal.” Contemporary Judaic Fellowship in Theory and in Practice, ed. J. Neusner. New York: Ktav, 1972.
5. “Response to Mortimer Ostow.” Conservative Judaism 29 (1975).
6. “Creating a Jewish Library.” Jewish Catalogue. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1973.
7. “A Contemporary Jewish Approach to Sexuality.î” The Second Jewish Catalogue. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1977.
8. “How to Be a Mensch. The Third Jewish Catalogue. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1980.
9. “Inaugural Address” as President of the Reconstructionst Rabbinical College. Sunday, November 5, 1987. Wyncote PA: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 1987.
10. “Authority and Autonomy in Rabbinic Education Today.” The Seminary at 100. New York: Rabbinical Assembly, 1987.
11. “Reconstructionists and Jewish Unity.” Reconstructionist 53:1 (1987).
12. “Shared Homelessness.” Jewish Spectator 53:1 (1988).
13. “L’Affaire Rushdie: A View from Judaism.” The Suburban. March 29, 1989.
14. “On Being a Jewish Leader.” Reconstructionist 55:2 (1989).
15. “Where We Stand: Contemporary Reconstructionism in Theory and Practice.” Reconstructionist 56:1 (1990).
16. “A Conversation with Arthur Green.” Interview by William Novak. Kerem, Spring 1995.
17. “Mumar la-Hofesh: Sihah ‘im Professor Arthur Green.” Interview by Ohad Ezhahi. Hayyim Aherim 36 (Dseptember 1999).
18. “Judaism, Religious Diversity, and the American Academy.” Education as Transformation. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
19. “The Sin of the Church.” Review-essay of James Carroll’s Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews. Tikkun 16:3 (2001).
19a. Reprinted by Brandeis University, International Center for Justice and Ethics.
20. “A Stronger Moral Force.” Sh’ma, May 2002.
21. Contribution to J. Salkin, A Dream of Zion. Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2007.
22. “A Loverís Lament.” Symposium contribution on “Israel at 60.” Tikkun, May-June 2008.
23. “National Repentance.” In “Memos to Obama. Tikkun, January/February 2009.
24. “Rabbinic Training and Transdenominationalism: Some Personal Perspectives.î” In Synagogues in a Time of Change, ed. Z. Heller. Herndon VA: Alban Insitute, 2009.
25. “Renewal and Havurah: American Movements, European Roots.” In Leah Levitz Memorial Volume. New York: JTSA, 2010.
Regular bi-monthly column in Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, 1988-92. Various topics.
Numerous other short pieces including synopses of lectures, contributions to symposia, interviews, etc.
ARTICLES IV (TRANSLATIONS)
1. “The Death of Our Master” by Rabbi Nathan Sternharz. Conservative Judaism 28:1 (1973).
2. “The Sign” by S. Y. Agnon. Response 19 (1973).
2a. Reprinted in A Book that Was Lost and Other Stories. ed. A. Mintz and A. G. Hoffman. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
3. “Bratslav Dreams.” (The dreams of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.) Fiction 7:12 (1981).
3a. __________, reprinted in Rabbinic Fantasy, ed. D. Mirsky and D. Stern. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1990.
4. “On One Stone” and “The Sense of Smell.” Two stories by S. Y. Agnon. A Book that Was Lost and Other Stories. ed. A. Mintz and A. G. Hoffman. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.