Rachel Z Feldman

Rachel Z. Feldman specializes in the anthropology of Judaism, messianic movements, digital and transnational religion, contemporary Israel/Palestine, and gender studies. She holds a PhD from The University of California, Davis and an MA from the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary (Rutgers University Press, Spring 2024) and recently received a Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award (2023) from the AJS for this monograph. She is also the co-editor of Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank (McGill-Queen's University Press, Fall 2023 ). Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is currently working on a new book project on contemporary Breslov Hasidism, with a focus on new Francophone Breslov geographies and is conducting ongoing fieldwork in Jerusalem, Montreal,  and Côte d'Ivoire. She was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Fellowship (2025) for her ethnographic research on Breslov Hasidism.