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Naftali Loewenthal

Naftali Loewenthal () (b. 1944) is a Jewish academic from England, and a member of the Chabad Hasidic community. Loewenthal's main area of study is Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism, he serves as a professor in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London, and the director of the Chabad Research Unit, a division of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in the United Kingdom. Loewenthal is noted as the author of ''Communicating the Infinite: The Emergence of the Habad School'' (1990), an important work on the scholarship of Hasdisim; he has also authored ''Hasidism Beyond Modernity: Essays in Habad Thought and History'' (2019) as well as many scholarly articles and publications on the Chabad mysticism.

One key area of Loewenthal's research has been the topic of the history of Chabad Hasidic women. Provided by Wikipedia