Hadar Feldman Samet is an assistant professor at Tel Aviv University’s department of Jewish History, where she teaches the history of Jews in Muslim contexts. Her research focuses on Jewish life in the Eastern Mediterranean Muslim world, particularly the Sephardi diaspora in Ottoman society. Her scholarship examines the Sabbatian movement, entangled histories of Jews and Muslims, interfaith encounters, affinities between mysticism and popular culture, and the relationship between mundane and revolutionary practices. She also explores how expressive culture and performative dimensions of historical phenomena—especially music and embodied devotional experiences—reveal diverse and multifaceted representations of people of the past.
After completing her doctorate at the Hebrew University in 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center, the Harry Starr fellowship at Harvard University, and the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center at the Hebrew University. Her forthcoming book is entitled Sabbatian Songs of Faith: Ritual, Community, and Interreligious Encounters in the Late Ottoman Empire (Magnes Press).